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CRYPTOGRA'MMA. A spurious name 

 for Sir W. Hooker's Parkeria, a fern 

 published in 1825 in Hooker's Exotic 

 Flora, page 147. See Parkeria. 



CRYPTOME'RIA. Japan Cedar. (From 



hidden, and meris, part ; the* j 

 structure of all the parts of the flower 

 being hidden, or not easily understood. 

 Nat. ord., Conifers [Pinacerc]. Linn., 

 %1-Mweacia l-Q-Monaddphia. Allied to 

 Taxodium. ) 



A splendid evergreen tree, from 60 to 100 

 feet high ; from the north of China, where it 

 grows in damp situations. Seeds imported ; 

 some have ripened in Britain ; cuttings in sandy 

 soil, under a hand-light ; a pure loam seems to 

 suit it best. 



C. Japo'nica (Japanese). 100. May. Japan. 

 1844. 



na'na (dwarf). North China. 



CRYTOPHRA'GMIUM. (From 

 kryptos, hidden, and phrayma, a 

 division or partition; the flowers 

 partly concealed by the leafy- 

 bracts. Nat. ord., Acanthads 

 [Acanthaceae]. Linn., 2-Dia.n- 

 dria \-Monoyynia. Allied to 

 Justicia.) 



Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings in 

 April, of young shoots, in sandy loam, 

 under glass and in bottom heat ; peat 

 and loam. Summer temp., 60 to 80 ; 

 winter, 50. 



C. venu'stiim (beautiful). 5. September. Pur- ! 

 pie. Bengal. 



CRYPTOSTE'GIA. (From /tryptos, hid- 

 den, and slcyc, a covering : the cup or i 

 corolla is hidden. Nat. ord., Asclepiads 

 [Asclepiadacerc]. Linn., 5-Pentrandria 

 %-Diyynia. Allied to Periploca.) 



Climbing stove evergreens. Loam and peat ; ' 

 cuttings root readily in sand, under glass, in 

 heat. 



C. grandifto'ra (large-flowered). 6. Pink. June, i 



India. 1818. 

 Madagascarie'nsis (Madagascar). 10. Pink. \ 



July. Madagascar. 1826. 



CRYPTOSTE'MMA. (From frryptos, hid- ' 

 den, and stcmma, a crown ; the crown ' 

 of the flower hidden. Nat. ord., Com- I 

 posit.es [Asteracete]. Linn., l^-Sym/e- 

 nesia S-Frustranea. Allied to Arctotis.) j 



Tender annuals from Cape of Good Hope, 

 requiring to be sown on a gentle hot-bed; when 

 large enough may be potted two or three 

 plants in a pot, and protected again in the ; 

 same way, and planted out in the open border 

 the beginning of June. 



C. calendula'ccum (Marigold-/?ozrfm?\ 1. Ycl- | 

 low. July. 1752. 



C. hypochondri' acum (melancholy). 1. Yellow. 



July. 1731. 

 runcina'ium (s&\\- leaved). 1. Yellow. July. 



1794. 



CUCKOO FLOWER. Carda'minc pra- 

 tc'nsis and Ly'chnis floscii'culi. 



CUCKOO-SPIT. See Telliyo'nia sp- 

 ma'ria. 



CUCU'LLIA VERBA'SCI. Mullein Moth. 

 This is the parent of a greenish white 

 or slaty-coloured caterpillar, found from 

 the end of May until August feeding 

 on the various species of mullein ( Vcr- 

 b(iscum) and figwort (Scrophularia). On 

 each segment of this caterpillar are 

 four large black dots, sometimes sepa- 

 rate, and sometimes running together ; 

 there are smaller black dots along the 

 sides, and a double row of yellow spots 



on the back, with others on the sides. 

 The head is yellow, spotted with black. 

 This moth appears commonly in Ma}'. 

 It is about two inches across the ex~ 

 panded fore-wings, which are of a dark 

 reddish-brown colour, clouded and lined 

 with black, and with a large white spot 

 on each resembling the figure 3, as 

 shewn in the annexed drawing. The 

 hind -wings are also reddish -brown, 

 but paler, and sometimes almost white. 

 The female lays her eggs upon the 

 mulleins, and their relative species of 

 plants, which eggs are hatched in a 

 few days if the weather be warm. The 

 caterpillars when of full growth descend 

 into the ground at the roots of the 

 plants on which they have been feeding, 

 where they form cocoons of half-rotted 

 leaves and earth, so firmly bound toge- 

 ther as to resemble small hard clods. 

 They remain in the pupa slate until 

 the following May, or even for two 

 years. 



