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and perfect their seed in the course of 

 the two following months. 



SCUTELLA'KIA. Skull-cap. (From 

 scutella, a little saucer; form of calyx. 

 Nat. ord., Lipworts [Lamiaceee], Linn., 

 14:-Didynamia 2-Angiospermia.) 



Seeds and divisions, in spring ; and the ever- 

 green kinds easily by cuttings, under a hand- 

 light ; some of the tender species are very 

 handsome, such as Cordifolia, but the red 

 spider must be looked after. 



TENDER SPECIES. 



S, cordifo'lia (heart-leaved). 1. Scarlet, orange. 

 September. Mexico. 1844. Stove 

 evergreen. 



hu'milis (dwarf). . Blue. June. New 



South Wales. 1823. Greenhouse. 



incarna'ta (flesh-coloured). l. Rose. Au- 



gust. Quito. 1844. Greenhouse ever- 

 green. 



Ventena'tii (Ventenat's). 2. Scarlet. Au- 



gust. St. Martha. 1844. Greenhouse. 



HARDY HERBACEOUS. 



S.Alpi'na (Alpine), f. Purple. August. Hun- 

 gary. 1752. 



lu'tea (yellow). Yellow. August. 



Tartary. 1739. 



sangui'nea (blood-red). . Red. July. 



1835. 



variega'ta (variegated-cowered). &. 



Pale yellow. August. Switzerland. 



alti'ssima (tallest). 1. Dark purple. July. 



Crimea. 1824. 



Cohi'mnee (Columna's). l. Blue. July. 



South Europe. 1806. 



commuta'ta (changed). Purple. August. 



Hungary. 1683. 



galericula'ta (small-capped). 1, Blue. July. 



Britain. 



grandiflo'ra (large - flowered). l. Red. 



July. Siberia, 1804. 



fiastifo'lia (spear-leaved). . Purple, June. 



Germany. 1798. 



hi'rta (hairy). Dark purple. June. Candia. 



1835. 



integrifo'lia (entire-leaved). 1. Blue. July. 



North America. 1731. 



Japo'nica (Japan). J. Purple, white. Au- 



gust. Japan. 1838. 



lateriflo'ra (side-flowering). 1. Blue. July. 



North America. 1752. 



macra'ntha (large-flowered). 3- Blue. Au- 



gust. Dahuria. 1827- 



mi'nor (less). . Pink. July. Britain. 



nervo'sa (large-nerved). 1. Blue. July. 



Virginia. 1826. 



orienta'lis (eastern). 1. Yellow. August. 



Levant. 1729. 



pa' rvula (very-small). 3. Blue. July. North 



America. 1822. 



peregri'na (spreading). 2. Violet. August. 



Tauria. 1823. 



pilo'sa (shaggy). 1. Blue. July. North 



America. 1825. 



purpura'scens (purplish). 2. Blue. June. 



West Indies. 1820. 



serra'ta (saw -leaved). $. Blue. August. 



North America, 1800. 



S. Tournefo'rti (Tournefort's). li. Purple. 

 July. Persia. 1837. 



ve'rna (spring). $. Blue. June. South 



Europe. 1821. 



SCUTICA'RIA. (From scutica, a whip ; 

 leaves as round as a whipcord. Nat. 

 ord., Orchids [Orchidaceee]. Linn. ,20- 

 Gijnandria \-Monandria. Once called 

 a Maxillaria.) 



Stove orchid, grown on blocks. See Orchids. 

 S. Stee'lii (Steel's). Yellow-spotted. July. 

 Guayana. 1834. 



SCYPA'NTHUS. (From scyphos, a cap, 

 and antlios, a flower. Nat. ord., Loasads 

 [Loasacece]. Linn., 1S-Polyaddphia 

 2-Polyandria.) 



This name is so much in use that we retain 

 it, though a synonym of Grammutacarpns. 

 Hardy, yellow-flowered twining annuals, from 

 Chili. Seeds in the open air, in May ; or in a 

 slight hotbed, in March, to be afterwards trans- 

 planted. 

 S. e'legans (elegant). August. 1824. 



grandiflo'rus (large-flowered). 2. August. 



1824. 



SCYTHE. This mowing implement 

 heing confined, in the garden, to cut- 

 ting the fine short grass of lawns, re- 

 quires to be much sharper than that 

 used in cutting the coarser grasses, 

 which stand up more firmly to the 

 scythe. It is also necessary that the 

 mowers should not score the grass, that 

 is, should not leave the mark of each 

 stroke of the scythe, which has a very 

 unsightly appearance; to prevent which, 

 have the scythe laid out rather wider, 

 an inch or two beyond heel and toe, es- 

 pecially for very short grass ; and in 

 mowing, keep the point rather out, and 

 do not draw that part too fast toward, 

 gathering the grass neatly to the left 

 in a range ; and having mowed to the 

 end of the swaith, mow it lightly back 

 again, to trim off all scores, and other 

 irregularities, unavoidably left the first 

 time. A great inconvenience attending 

 the old scythe, is the difficulty of fas- 

 tening and adjusting the blade to the 

 handle. This is entirely obviated by 

 Boyd's Self-adjusting Scythe. It is 

 always a problem to determine the 

 angle the blade should make with the 

 handle, as it varies with every mower. 

 A good guide is for a perpendicular 

 line to be chalked against a wall, and 

 for the mower to stand close and 

 directly fronting to this line; then, 



