LABURNUM. 
CYTISUS LABURNUM. 
Class - -—DIADELPHIA. Order.—DECANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Juss. 
CAPRIFOLIA. 
Cytisus, a sh aid by Pliny, to be found in the island of 
Cythnus, one of the ape os whence * name. cis worth. 
aburnum, probably from Laborenum, fertile ee in 
ge betwe een Putco and Sona: on the road to 
this 
. Laburnum is a native of it nt Saha. etc, 
Its wood is hard and valuable. Hares rabbits e particu- 
larly fond of its arte ane bark ; but its Sadine are said to be 
bitter and poiso he flowers yellow, papilionaceous; 
pian one-leafed, ‘el shaped enero leaves ternate ; stem 
ubby and thornle 
India company, member of the royal societies of A aa and 
y natu 
he tea “Nelumbo, native e East Indies, Cochin- 
one ina, etc. ts many parts of which it is estee teemed a sacred 
plant, ‘and maker: . conspicuous figure in 
ero 
the common denomination ve lily, a 
ave been applied by the Greeks to 
A flowers. Ita appea: 
Pp 
testy that it, as well as the proper Lotos, has obtained reli- 
nee, 
otic C. Nelumbo, was generally Sart ae Egyptian 
d, by 8 rabo, to beso oe ie 
C. P: reus, an legant Austrian specie 8, now much culti- 
vated: another, sssaun bition the weeping willow, in its droopin 
bou; _— 
th fe s drooping clusters, 
hoe, athwart the stream, their eda lustres, Cowper. 
And the Fgh dere with its golden strings, 
Waving in the wind. Southey. 
The pale Laburnum graced with yellow plumes. Anon, 
LADY’S SLIPPER. 
CYPRIPEDIUM, 
Class 20.—GYNANDRIA. 
Nat. see Lin: 
ORCHIDEX. 
Perms: L. from the Greek kupris, Venus, and PopIoNn, 
a shoe. 
Iti is the most Decal st admired genus of the Orchis 
= ~ rest by being truly 
me flower with the pis- 
Order.—DIANDRIA. 
Vulgo. 
. Humile, Synon,¢ C. Acaule, Vulgo, Purple Moc 
flower, Lady’s Sli 
The Candidum is eddie to Pennsylvania: the Parviflorum 
to a vivctnies the sengng to Canada: the Pubescens and Cal- 
ceolus ar are supposed, by Dr. W. Da: rlington, to be the same. 
h spreadi ng. 
one of which is erect, the other dependent ; the latter often 
cloven. Petals two, alternate, with the calyx declining, often 
twisted ; lip large, inflated, hollow. a ce bat ae 
lor of the 
flower Necepe tis ee oe 
The Cypripediu er RESRnAe as 
shire she were par bon: gee? h array pendesenteE i 
eA ea oa 
Class 13.—POLYANDRIA T.—MONOGYNIA. 
at. inn. ae Juss. 
CALYCANTHE MAB SALICARIE. 
Pr et ‘remia, so ‘atid by Linneus in commemoration of 
friend Magnus Lagerstrem, a director of the Swedish East 
qiodern botanists, Polyandria. 
int ‘ 
and taste. According ty to Deneeana was sometimes ‘called 
the Pontic bean, and is is ree to be not only of Egypt, but also 
of Asia pt ge an 
r. Sm conjectured that it was s the real m mystical bean of 
Pyihiguiak concern: 
lowers, so much mg i and so little de 
It is supposed that “this ances ewe oiiaecam mbi 
notion of its sacred character during his travels: and as it did 
not grow in his own country, » he Wook a wnketitute fe ae 
very nearly. See Rees’s Bncylipedia 
This digression will, I hope, be e 
To return to the La, agerstramia: the acl is a the size 
of a haere 
wor Flower. 
rose-color, occasionally 
or ig + ike double stock 
The peta 4 heart-shaped, pointed, excessively crumpled 
and curled, with long slender claws. An ee yellow, called, 
by some, the fringed rose, craped myrtle 
LARKSPUR 
DELPHINIUM. 
Class 13.—POLYANDRIA. 
Vat. inn. Nat. 
MULTISILIQUZ. Rppanintie 4 
The DELPHINION of the ancient Greeks, “because,” says 
Order.—TRIGYNIA. 
mblance rather to be found, sence 
e popular idea er that om between the cu 
body and the — ed nectary of the flower. Detphin, tein 
the Lati d Gree :* for a dolphin. 
“re Nowuabihe is, before they are ep ener te are thought to 
Sener the do Iphin. In the 1 natural si single dowsed bah = of 
at t! 
back of the corolla, which i is satae to sh oa of the as 
f Lar —Flora Historica, 
foo 
The aay pesto erm 
of its petals, yet retains 
and many othier double flowers, by 
stigmas, 
feed t aow lll in the aatumn, general 
tate; whilst the seed, sown later in the seaso: 
or in the 
Europe, iberia, 
ye 5 yx ; petals five, the upper one ‘ 
sss a posterior spur. Leaves, the lower are are diate o ee 
sai the ve ee sometimes und undivided. 
or panicled, v 
