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DOMESTIC BOTANY. 



Heartsease or Pansy ( Viola tricolor). An annual, also a 

 native of Britain. In its wild state it has small white or 

 yellowish flowers, but by cultivation many varieties have 

 been raised of large size and singular beauty, known under 

 the name of Pansies. 



lonidimn Ipecacuanha. A shrub, native of Brazil, the root of 

 which, with that of other species, is used for ipecacuanha. 



Scliweiggeria paucifiora. A small Brazilian shrub, long 

 introduced at Kew, and is interesting in having pretty white 

 violet-shaped flowers. 



Hymmanthera dentata. A strong growing shrub, or rather 

 small tree, native of New South Wales. It grows freely in the 

 greenhouse, producing abundance of pendulous green flowers. 



Leonia glycycarpa. A tree, native of Peru, having alter- 

 nate, oblong, firm leaves, and loose panicles of yellow flowers. 

 Its fruit is about the size of a peach, having a rough, netted 

 skin, and containing a sweet pulp, which is eaten by the 

 natives. 



In alliance with Violacece is the small family Sauvagesia- 

 cece, consisting of from 15 to 20 known species, principally 

 natives of tropical America and the Malayan Islands. They 

 are small annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, having alter- 

 nate feathery-veined leaves with fringed stipules, and pretty 

 white, pink, blue, or yellow flowers in terminal panicles or 

 racemes, or solitary. In Brazil Sauvagesia erecta is called 

 the herb of St. Martin, and is used medicinally. 



Luxemhurgia ciliosa is a small neat shrub, with oblong ellip- 

 tical fringed leaves, and pretty yellow flowers. It has been 

 cultivated in this country ; some botanists place it in Ochna- 

 cesd, which seems a natural position for it. 



Great differences of opinion exist as to the relationship of 

 the pretty plant, Grass of Parnassus, Parnassia palustris, some 

 placing it with Sundews, Saxifrages, and St. John's Worts ; 

 but an eminent botanist has lately shown it to be more natu- 

 rally connected with this family. 



