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CANTERBURY BELL. 
AMPANULA MEDIUM. . 
Class 5.—PENTANDRIA, Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Ord. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
CAMPANULACE®. 
a, Latin, for a little bell. 
nni The plant decays a after having matured its 
The seeds should be sown in the spring ¢ and transplant- 
eeds. 
er in the autumn, preparatory to its flowering the following 
ear. 
o feet high. Root leaves epics! at the base in 
long head tesla slightly scolloped, hairy, harsh to the to i 
ped. Flowers dies, purple, or white, 
ous. 
of woods on the continent of Europe, 
oe To me there’ sa tone from nur — bell-flowe 
ith h the storm” is 0” ee 
ns the 
That a has npn me He sepay 
he friends who have cheered my stormy day, 
Witha pacer brow and a sunny smile 
CAPE JASMINE. 
GARDENIA FLORIDA. 
Class 5.—PENTANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
i Nat. Ord. Juss 
RUBIACEZ 
Flic ahl 
hm: 
a correspondent, also 0: 
disturteis ces in America, he, being a loyalist, took refuge in 
Europe ; a in 1761, he was elected a member of the Royal 
Academy of Upsal. 
The original idea and character of this genus are taken from 
the G. Florida, first carried to England by Captain Hutchinson, 
in full — Srom the ne e of Good Hope. Gordon the nur 
sg ag 
hd 
re 
The flower ers sare ee s ae like those: of th 
mperfect secre - anthers: but ¥ speci ns, 
n bronght frem ‘the vi st Indies, 
as 
n 
shrubby, three fou fee t high: lea pean ee 
ones rolaiics) ae seh 8 patntens entire, s smooth, veiny, 
evergreen. rs solitar f th 
Narcissus Poeticus, Gohick is = largest of the white kinds, 
with a crimson border on the cup of the nectary,) with a sweet 
and very powerful scent, Rit ng the flavor of ginger, 
CARDINAL’S FLOWER. 
LOBELIA CARDINALIS. 
5.—PENTANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. 
CAMPANACE. 
called in ces of Matthi 
sere 
t eniees Pets 
physician to zs illustrious Prince 
Holland. rae t Lisle, in Piauiders, in 1538. 
oe ngland before the year 1570 and was appoin st 
and physician to Jame es the First of England. ad yo at one 
time, Hackney 
during the latter part of the reign of Quee Eliz cahoui He 
ne of the contributors to a work atitled the Adversaria, | th 
4 13 
dedicated to Queen Elizateth. The aim of the — ye = 
work, was to investigate the botany a is materia 
ancients ; and especially of Dioscorides. In the dectine’ of hiife 
“a ha at Highgate; and died in 1615—aged 78. 
ie Cas rdi nal’s flo ower, Lobe tia | Can ardinalis, was introduced 
hose her 
reece Parkinson, mentions vs as a * brave 
sume this species received its 
of the i being of the same tint w 
is 
h America ing by "the Th me rivers and ditches 
Its roots perensal telanyscbor feet high, leafy ; flowers a rich 
and vivid sca 
Puicalll ‘Refulgent Lobelia; and the L. Splendens, 
Shini ie Lobe lia, are still more brilliant: they are Mexican 
plants; and when cultivated with care, the crimson flowers 
assume a degree of magnificence scarcely surpassed by any 
other plant. 
Lobelia, attired like a queen in her ot 
The foliage of the a Ao . Shin d 
ith dashes of a rich puce color; which, together with the 
cai olored flower-stalks, fi - y to of the 
plant. _The stems fro’ m five to six f ect high. 
The Blu e Lobelia, tl 
in — eg and southern states of Nort ag in moist 
grou Sry sag a _ ot creme like the L. Inflata,) 
et h 
air ree or four. pir ; leaves ovate, 
Fancoctate, unequally y ye hairy, with 
flo lowers large bright blue, 
milky j juice, ‘aa hasa 
sinetias owes eable odor. The root, ogee is me part used in 
medicine, resembles tobacco in n tas! — apt to excite 
nausea. It flowers all the 
CATALPA; ‘on, CATAWBA. 
CATALPA CORDIFOLIA, 
Class 14.—DIDYNAMIA. Order.—ANGIOSPERMIA, 
a mr 
h f Indians, and also 
me ptoranbgen in s. Carolina. The splendid tree under con- 
sideration still bears the name given to it by the Aborigines of 
that region. 
Linnzus referred it to the genus Bignonin, but, as the plants 
included under this head differ considerably from each other, 
it has been divided by Jussi yen Ventenat, into four, viz: 
gg OP Cata alpa, T ia. 
‘alpa ted—the Se 
wheel cor, heart; the leaves 
flowers 
dull bese coor, por a Se ‘ew purple 
on their inside—two-cleft, beLahaped border, four-lobed, un- 
equal. 
But however conspicuous its vis ter Pwr bloom, the wary bee 
avoids its pernicious, though tempting sweets. 
OCATCH FLY: 
SILENE, 
Class 10.—DECANDRIA. Order. —TRIGYNIA, 
CARYOPHYLLEZ. 
} * ws jon to 
CARYOPHYLLE®. 
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