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shoots, under a bell-glass, in sandy soil ; 

 cold pit or greenhouse, or with a little 

 protection, such as a warm wall, might 

 be tried. 

 C. ni'tens (shining-flowered). Yellow. May. 



serra'ta (saw-leaved). Yellow. May. 1841. 



CHRYSOSPLE'NIUM. Golden Saxifrage. 

 (From chrysos, gold, and splen, spleen ; in 

 reference to the colour of the flowers, 

 and the supposed medicinal qualities of 

 the plant as a slight tonic. Nat. ord., 

 Saxifrages [Saxifragacese]. Linn., 10- 

 Decandria, 1-digynia). Hardy herbace- 

 ous perennials. Dividing the roots ; 

 moist situation ; common soil. 

 C. alternifo'lium (alternate-leaved). 1. Yel- 

 low. April. Britain. 



nepalc'nse (Nepaul). 1. Yellow. April. 



Nepaul. 1820. 



oppositlfo' Hum (opposite-leaved). Yellow. 



April. Britain. 



CHRYSOSTE'MMA. (From chrysos, gold, 

 and stemma, a crown the yellow flowers. 

 Nat. ord., Composites [Asteraceae]. Linn., 

 \$-Syngenesia, 3-Frmtranca. Allied to 

 Rudbeckia). Hardy herbaceous peren- 

 nial. Division of the roots, and seed; 

 common light soil. 



G. tri'ptcris (three-winged). 6. Yellow. Au- 

 gust. North America. 1837. 



CHYMOCA'RPUS. (Better known as 

 Tropaolum pentaphyllum of "THE COT- 

 TAGE GARDENER ;" but the genus is ac- 

 knowledged by botanists, and the mean- 

 ing of the name is juicy-fruited, in con- 

 tradistinction to the hard dry fruit of the 

 narsturtium. It is derived from chymos, 

 juice, and carpos, a fruit). Greenhouse 

 perennial climber. Seeds in a slight 

 hotbed ; cuttings in sandy soil, under a 

 hand-light, in summer. Sandy loam, 

 with a little peat. 



C. pentaphy'llus (five-leaved). 4. Red, green. 

 August. Buenos Ayres. 1830. 



CHY'SIS. (From city sis, melting ; in 

 reference to the fused appearance of the 

 pollen masses. Nat. ord., Orchids [Or- 

 chidacea}]. Linn., 20 - Gynandria, 1- 

 mofiandria). Stove orchids. Offsets ; 

 baskets filled with fibry peat and pot- 

 sherds ; and kept in a cool moist stove. 

 C. au'rea (golden-flowered). 1. Yellow and 

 crimson. May. Venezuela. 1834. 



bracte" 'scats (bracteated). 1. White, yellow. 



May. Guat : mala. 1840. 



la? vis (smooth). Cream, yellow. Guati- 



mala. 

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CIBO'TIUM. (From kibotion, a small 

 box ; referring to the form of the seed 

 vessels. Nat. ord., Ferns [Polypodiaceae]. 

 Linn., 1-Cryptoyamia, l-filices}. Divi- 

 sion of the roots ; peat and loam ; a 

 warm greenhouse or cool stove. 

 C. Ba'rometz (Barometz). 6. Brown, yellow. 

 May. China. 1824. Stove. 



SiUardiefri (Billardier's). 30. Brown. 



April. New Holland. 1824. Green- 

 house. 



Schie'fci (Schiede's). 6. Brown. Mexico. 



1846. Stove. 



CIBOUL, or "WELSH ONTON, Alliumjistu- 

 losum, a perennial, never forming any 

 bulb, but sown annually, to be drawn 

 young for salads, &c. Its strong taste 

 renders it greatly inferior to the common 

 onion for this purpose; but from its 

 extreme hardiness it is good as a winter- 

 standing crop for spring use. 



Varieties. Two varieties are in culti- 

 vation, the white and the red. 



Cultivat-ion. It may be sown at all 

 times with the onion, and is similarly 

 cultivated, except that it may be sown 

 thicker, and only thinned as wanted. 

 (See Onion}. The blade usually dies 

 away completely in winter, but fresh 

 ones are thrown out again in February or 

 March. 



To obtain seed. Plant some of the roots 

 in March, six or eight inches asunder. 

 The first autumn they will produce but 

 little seed ; in the second and third, how- 

 ever, it will be produced abundantly. If 

 care is taken to part and transplant the 

 roots every two or three years, they may 

 be multiplied, and will remain produc- 

 tive for many years, and afford much 

 better seed than that from one-year-old 

 roots. 



Scattiom. There is good reason for 

 concluding that by a confusion of names, 

 arising from similarity of appearance, 

 this vegetable is the true scallion, whilst 

 the hollow leek of Wales is the true 

 Welsh onion. At pi-esent all onions that 

 have refused to bulb, but form lengthened 

 necks and strong blades in spring and 

 summer, are called scallions. 



CI'CCA. (Named after Peter Cicca, a 

 writer of the sixteenth century. Nat. 

 ord., Spurgeicorts [Euphorbiaceae] . Linn., 

 21-Moncecia, k-tetrandria. Allied to. 

 Phyllanthus) . The milky j nice of many 

 of the Spurgeworts is poisonous, yet the 

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