382 FLORA DOMESTICA. 



VIRGINIA COWSLIP. 



DODECATHEON MEADIA. 



PRIMULACE^. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



French, gyroselle de Virginie. 



THIS is a perennial plant, with purple flowers, or in- 

 clining to the colour of the peach blossom. It is very 

 ornamental when in flower, which is in April and May. 



This plant is more impatient of heat than of cold : it 

 will endure our most severe winters ; but two or three 

 days 1 exposure to a hot sun will entirely destroy the young 

 plants. It may be increased by offsets from the roots, 

 which should be taken off, and transplanted in August, 

 after the leaves and stalks have decayed, that they may 

 have time to gain strength before the frost comes on. 



WALLFLOWER 



CHEIRANTHTJS. 



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CRUCIFER.E. TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 



French, giroflier jaime; violier jaune [both signifying yellow 

 stock] ; le baton d'or [gold stick] ; la ravanelle ; le rameau d'or [golden 

 branch]; le garranier jaune. Italian, viola [stock]; viola gialla 

 [yellow stock] ; cheiri. 



THE Wallflowers are, in fact, Stocks ; since they not 

 only belong to the same genus, but are properly named 

 Wallflowers, or Stocks : but some of the species having 

 been distinguished by custom as Wallflowers, entirely 



