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put into tlieni : tliofe which require to be kept the moil dry 

 and Iweet, as the grain, pulfe, and hay kinds, in the higher 

 and more open airy parts ; and thoie of the contrary Kind 

 in the lower and more coniinLd parts. 



Stack of Wood, among Hujbandmen, is a pile of wood 

 three feet long, as many broad, and twelve feet high. 



STACKHOUSIA, in Botany, received that appellation 

 from the writer of the prefent article, in honour of John 

 Stackhoufe, efq. F.L.S. of Pendarvis, in Cornwall, author 

 of a fplendid work on fubmarine plants, entitled Nereis 

 Brltannica, and of fome botanical illuftrations of Theo- 

 phraftus.— Sm. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 4. 218, Brown 

 Bot. of Terra Aultralis, 23.— Clafs and order, Pentandria 

 Trlgynla. Nat. Ord. Tefcb'mtaceic, Jufl". ? Sm. Stachhoufer, 

 Brown. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, bell-fhaped, 

 divided half way down into five equal, acute fegments, per- 

 manent. Cor. Petals five, equal, inferted into the calyx, 

 linear-lanceolate, cohering by tiieir claws in the for.Ti of a 

 tube much longer than the calyx, their borders narrow, 

 fprcading horizontally, (horter than the tube. Slant. Fila- 

 ments five, thread-fhaped, unequal, inferted into the ca- 

 lyx ; anthers roUndifii, concealed within the corolla. Pift. 

 Germen fuperior, three-lobed ; ftyles three, fliort ; flignias 

 obtufe, fimple. Perk. Capfule of three roundifh, coriaceous, 

 corrugated cells, each of one valve, not burfting. Seeds 

 I'olitary, nearly globular, attached to the permanent central 

 column. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx in five fegments. Petals five, connefted 

 by their claws. Capfule of three lobes and three cells, not 

 burfting. Seeds folitary. 



Obf. The llyles, as well as the cells of the capfule, are 

 fometimes two only. 



I. S. viminea. Slender Stackhoufia. — Gathered near 

 Port Jackfon, New South Wales, by John White, M.D. 

 to whom we are obliged for fpecimens. The root is taper- 

 ing, whether annual or perennial we know not. Stems feve- 

 ral, ereft, twelve or eighteen inches high, fimple or branched, 

 round, leafy, Itriated, fmooth. Leaves fcattered, feflile, 

 nightly fpreading, elliptic-lanceolate, or oblong, obtule, 

 entire, fmooth, rather flefhy, and fomewhat glaucous, fingle- 

 ribbcd, an inch or more in length, tapering at the bafe. 

 Clujlers terminal, elongated, ereft, many-flowered. Fln-vtrs 

 fmall, yellowifh, in little diltant tufts, two or three together, 

 on (hort partial italks, with minute brafteas at their bafe. 

 Capfule ot three rugged lobes, each the fize of a muftard- 

 feed, fubtended by the permanent expanded calyx. The 

 Howers bear a refemblance to fome fpecies of Struth'wia or 

 Daphne, but are very different when examined. 



This is the only fpecies that has fallen in' our way. Mr. 

 Bi-own probably may have feen more. This learned botanift 

 confiders Slaclboujia, " and an unpublilhed genus, exaftly 

 agreeing with it in llower, but remarkably different in fruit," 

 as forming a fmall natural order, fufhciently diftinft from 

 all hitherto ellablilhed. He places it between his CelaJJrw,i 

 and Euphorbiace£, " to both of which, but efpecially to the 

 former, it feems to be related in a certain degree." Mr. 

 Brown thui defines the order in queftion. 



Stackhouse.t;. Calyx of one leaf, in five equal feg- 

 ments, with a fwelling tube. Petals five, equal, inferted 

 into the top of the tube ; their claws cohering in a tubular 

 form, longer than the calyx. Their borders narrow, fpread- 

 ing like a (lar. Stamens five, diitinft, unequal (two alter- 

 nate ones being the fliorteil) inferted into the throat of the 

 calyx. Germen diltinct, of from three to five feparate fingle- 

 feeded lobes, the feeds erecl. Styles three to five, fometimes 

 cohering at their bafe. Sitgmas undivided. Seed-ve/fel of 



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three to five lobes, each without valves, fometimes winged ; 



the central column permanent. Embryo ereA, central, al- 

 mott as long as the flefliy albumen. 



The plants of this order are herbaceous, with fimple, en- 

 tire, fcattered, fometimes minute, leaves, and lateral, ex- 

 tremely minute, Jlipulas. Spiies terminal, with three braHeas 

 to each Jlozuer. " The Stacthoufea are peculiar to Terra 

 Auftralis, and though found chiefly in its principal parallel, 

 extend more fparingly both to the fouthern extremity of 

 Van Diemen's ifland, and to the north coaft of New 

 Holland." 



STACKING, in Agriculture, the art and manner of 

 forming, building, and making all forts of ftacks with any 

 kind of farm produce. 



In forming, building, or Itacking any fort of material of 

 the farm kind, it is moltly proper to begin in the middle of 

 the fladdles or llands on which they are to be raifed, fo as to 

 form and lay it out to the fides, end?, or other parts, in a 

 very flightly inclining manner, the ear-parts the highell 

 in corn or other fimilar matters, keeping fuch middle part 

 always well up, and the outlide parts on the fides, or in 

 other ways, in a conftantly very gradual, but fcarcely per- 

 ceptible, outwardly fwelling or overhanging manner, pro- 

 ceeding courfe after courfe, in the fame way, until the top 

 of the flem or fhaft part of the flack be reached, from 

 which, in forming the top part, it is to be taken or drawn in, 

 in placing the different courfes of the fubftances in nearly 

 the fame eafy, gradual, though in rather a quicker manner, 

 until the ridge or top be arrived at ; always carefully keep- 

 ing up the middle, as in the item or fhaft part. The top or 

 ridge part mull conftantly be well and fafely fecured ; it is 

 fometimes ornamentallv formed. In fomewhat this way 

 every fort of Hack about s farm may be raifed without any 

 very great difficulty or trouble, if the labourer or perfon 

 who is to form and conilruft them be but a little converfant 

 with the nature and praftice of flacking, though he may 

 not be greatly experienced in this fort of bufiuefs. He 

 cannot, however, raife or form flacks in the very neat, exaft, 

 and perfeft manner, that complete and profeffed itack- 

 building labourers are capable of performing the work. 

 Nor will he be capable of finifiiing them with the fame ex. 

 aclnefs, or the fame degree of neatnefs or elegance. See 

 the next article. 



Stacking of Grain, the art and praftice of building 

 or forming flacks of corn, and other fimilar matters ; which 

 is performed in dift'erent methods, according to the particu- 

 lar nature and circumflances of the different cafes. In the 

 execution of this bufinefs, the flems of the flacks fhould, 

 however, in general, be fo formed as to fwell gradually out- 

 wards, quite up to the part termed the eaves, as by this me- 

 thod they are more perfeftly fecured againft the entrance of 

 moillure, and at the fame time require a lefs fpace to Hand 

 or refl upon. And when the building of them is well per- 

 formed, they have equal folidity, and ftand in as firm and 

 fafe a manner. But Mr. Marfhall, who has probably not 

 fully confidered the advantages of this praftice, advifes that 

 the ftem or body of the flack fhould be carried up as plumb 

 as pofFible, except the laft courfe of fheaves, which fhould 

 projeft five or fix inches, to form the eaves : for the weight 

 of the roof will, he thinks, prcfs out the upper part of 

 the ftem fufficiently. If it overhang in making, its own 

 weight and the weight of the roofVill, it is fuppofed, 

 fqueeze it too fiat, will fpoil the appearance of it, and 

 wafle both thatch and time in thatching. The ftem or body 

 of a flack fhould commonly contain about two-thirds, and 

 the roof one-third of the whole flack. If it be built on a 

 frame, the ftem fhould, however, contain lefs, and the roof - 



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