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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



The name comes from the Greek for wanting ears, 

 alluding to the want of appendages to the seeds. A genus 

 of New Holland shrubs, suitable to the greenhouse, as gra- 

 cillimus, with orange-coloured flowers ; villosa, virgata, and 

 incana, with yellow, and lanigera with deeper yellow flow- 

 ers ; intermedia is another pretty species. 



BUB/IONIA. 



Gen. Char. {Becandria Monogynia^) Calyx deeply five-cleft; 

 corolla falling off ; petals nearly equal ; ovary two-seeded ; style 

 awl-shaped, dilated at the base ; stigma blunt, beardless ; pod 

 roundish, moderately inflated, no appendage to the seed. 



A genus of New Holland shrubs suitable to the green- 

 house. The species are sessilifolia, villosa, scabra, minor, 

 and piilchella ; the flowers either yellow, lilac, or purple. 

 They should be grown in sandy loam and peat, and the 

 pots ought to be very well drained, as they do not thrive 

 with much water. 



CROTALAEIA. 



Gen. Char. (BiadelpMa Decandria.) Pod inflated, swollen, 

 stalked ; filaments united with a dorsal fissure. 



