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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



live, dentate ; corolla five-cleft ; filaments three ; anthers five ; 

 fertile flower — style trifid ; berry inferior, globose, many-seeded. 



The name arises from the Greek for to grow rapidly. 

 The following climbing plants of this genus are intro- 

 duced into the greenhouse ; they all have straw-coloured 

 flowers and handsome lobed leaves. B. scahra, punctata, 

 cor data, trilobata, pinnatifida, and dissecta, from the Cape ; 

 verrucosa, from the Canaries ; epigaa, from the East Indies ; 

 fcifolia, from Buenos Ayres ; Africana and Cretica. These 

 plants have very large roots, and grow rapidly, so that they 

 are valuable additions to the greenhouse, where verdure is 

 required, but the flowers are not striking. 



BEG ONI ACE JE!. 



Exogens, with flowers in cymes, generally pink. Calyx co- 

 loured ; in the barren flower two of the divisions are within the 

 other, and smaller; in the fertile there are five divisions, two 

 smaller than the rest, or eight, of which four are like petals. 

 Stamens indefinite in number, distinct, or combined into a solid 

 column ; anthers collected in a head. Ovary adherent, winged, 

 three-celled. Leaves alternate, rarely entire, oblique at the base s 

 with large membranous stipules. — Herbaceous plants, or succu- 



