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POPULAIt GARDEN BOTANY. 



ground when ripe, and should be covered with soil; in 

 spring they produce young Begonias, which however do 

 not flower the same year, but the following, and should be 

 treated like the older ones. Pew plants surpass this in 

 elegance and beauty, and it is particularly adapted for the 

 window of a room, as it looks remarkably well standing 

 alone, from the drooping, flesh-coloured flowers and very 

 handsome leaves. 



Subclass II. HYPOGYNOUS EXOGENS. 



Having stamens and pistils generally in the same flower. 

 Stamens below the ovary, and entirely free from calyx and 

 corolla. 



PASSIPZOBACMM 



Exogens, with coroneted flowers ; the petals five, imbricated, 

 standing on the calyx. Stamens five, on the stalk of the ovary ; 

 a row of filamentous processes forming the crown in the centre. 

 Leaves often glandular. — Herbaceous plants and shrubs, usually 

 climbing ; properties rather dangerous, though some of the 

 fruits are edible ; natives principally of America, and particu- 

 larly the South. 



PASSXELORA. (Passion Elower.) 



Gen. Char. (Monadelphia Pentandria.) Calyx five-parted, co- 



