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half an inch deep. When five or six 

 inches high, the plants must he thinned 

 to a distance of at least two feet and a 

 half from each other. In the May, or 

 early June of the second year, they flower, 

 when they must he cut down, which 

 causes them to sprout again ; and if this 

 is carefully attended to, they will con- 

 tinue for three or four years. But if 

 permitted to run to seed, they perish soon 

 after. 



ANGE'LICA TREE. Ara'lia spino'sa. 



ANGELO'NIA. (From angdon, its local 

 name in South America. Nat. ord., 

 Fig worts [Scrophulariaceas], Linn., 14- 

 Didynamia '2-Angiospermia. Allied to 

 Hemitneris) . Pretty stove herbaceous 

 plants ; seed in heat, sown in February ; 

 division of the roots of several kinds and 

 cuttings of young shoots in April, in- 

 serted in sand under a bell-glass ; must 

 not be kept too damp; loam and peat. 

 Summer temp., from 60 to 70 ; winter, 

 55 to 60. 



A. angustifo'lia (narrow-leaved). 1^. Deep 

 violet. June. Mexico. 1846. 



cornigcfra (horn - bearing) . 1. Purple. 



August. Brazil. 1839. 



floribu'nda (many-flowered). 1. Purple. 

 August. Brazil. 1839. 



Gardne'ri (Mr. Gardner's). 1. Purplish 



white. May. Pernambuco. 1838. 



ffrandiflo'ra (large-flowered). 1. Purplish 



white. May. Pernambuco. 1838. 



minia'ta (crimson). 1. Purplish white. 



May. Pernambuco. 1838. 



salicarifpfo'lia (willow-leaved). 1. Light 



blue. August. S. America. 1818. 



ANGIA'NTHUS. (From aggos, vessel, 

 and antlios, a flower. Nat. ord., Compo- 

 sites [Asteraceas]. Linn., \$-Syngenesia 

 5-segregata.} A pretty greenhouse her- 

 baceous plant ; division of the root ; seed, 

 and cuttings under a bell-glass. Summer 

 temp., 50 to 70 ; winter, 40 to 50. 

 A. a'urens (golden). 1. Yellow. July. New 

 Holland. 1803. 



ANGIO'PTERIS. (From aggeion, a ves- 

 sel, andjstfms, a wing. Nat. ord., Ferns 

 [Polypodiaceae]. Linn., 1^-Cryptogamia 

 \-filices). A stove fern, cultivated like 

 Acropteris. 



A. eveftica (evetic). June. Brown. Island 

 of Luzon. 



ANGO'PHORA. (From aggos, a vessel, 

 and phero, to bear, in reference to the 

 shape of the fruit. Nat. ord., Myrtk- 

 blootns [Myrtaceae]. Linn., \1-Icosandria 



4-Polyginia). This is the most natural 

 order of plants, and no blue flower has 

 yet been found to belong to it. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs ; cuttings under 

 a bell-glass ; loam and peat. Summer 

 temp., 50 to 65 ; winter, 45. 



A. cordifo'liu (heart-leaved). 6. Yellow. Au- 

 gust. New Holland. 1789. 



lanceola'ta (lanceolate-leaved). 6. Yellow. 



August. New Holland. 1816. 



ANGR^E'CUM. (From angureJc, the 

 Malayan term for air-plants. Nat. ord., 

 Orchids. [Orchidaceffi]. Linn., 2Q-Gy- 

 nandria \-monandrid). By offsets in 

 spring, sphagnum moss, and broken pot- 

 sherds, and pieces of wood ; kept moist 

 and hot when growing in summer ; cool 

 in winter ; hot and dry when coming 

 into bloom. Summer temp., 70 to 85 ; 

 winter, 55 to 60. 



A. apicula'tum (apiculated) . L White. Sierra 

 Leone. 1844. 



armeni'acum (apricot - coloured flowered). 



Yellowish pink. Sierra Leone. 1838. 



ashante'si (Ashantee). \. Cinnamon. June. 



Ashantee. 1843. 



biltfbum (two-lobed). |. White. Septem- 



ber. Cape Coast. 1841. 



cauda'tum (tail-lipped). 1. White green. 



August. Sierra Leone. 1834. 



caule'scens (stemmed). 1. Green white. 



September. India. 1834. 



clandesti'num (concealed -flowered). \. 



Green white. September. Sierra Leone. 

 1835. 



di'stichum (two-rowed leaved). |. White, 



September. Sierra Leone. 1834. 



ebufrneum (ivory --lipped). 1. White. Ja- 



nuary. Madagascar. 1826. 



micro! 'nthum (sTnall-floiiiercd). . White. 



Sierra Leone. 1834. 



odorati' ssimum (very sweet-scented). White. 



Sierra Leone. 1832. 



ornithorhtf nchum (bird's-beak). White. 



Brazil. 1840. 



pellu'cidum (transparent). . White. No- 



vember. Sierra Leone. 1842. 



pertufsum (broken). . White. October. 



Sierra Leone. 1836. 



polystachy'um (many-spiked). Peru. 1840. 



subula'tum (awl-shaped). White. Sierra 



Leone. 1832. 



teretifo'lium (straw-leaved). White. Sierra 



Leone. 



ANGUILLA'RIA. (From anguitta, an 

 eel, in reference to the twisted seeds. 

 Nat. ord., Melanths [Melanthaceae]. 

 Linn., Q-Hexandria S-Trigynia. Allied 

 to Veratrum.} Herbaceous plants, re- 

 quiring a little protection in winter ; 

 division of roots, and cuttings, under a 

 hand-light ; peat and loam. 



