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remain a better colour, and look more flourishing : as they 

 are more attractive than the flower in this plant, particular 

 attention should be paid to their state. Those plants which 

 are forced, in order to make them produce their leaves very 

 early in the season for the sake of their sweet scent, are by 

 this means made very tender, and will shed them if exposed 

 to a cold air, or even if the regular watering be neglected ; 

 they only require a little, but that every day. 



LANTANA. 



Gen. Char. (Didynamia slngiospermia.) Flowers in heads ; 

 calyx obsoletely four-toothed ; limb of corolla four-cleft, with an 

 open orifice ; stigma hooked backwards. 



An old name for the Viburnum, which this genus some- 

 what resembles. This is a genus of sweet-smelling plants, 

 grown in the stove in this country, but a few may be intro- 

 duced into the greenhouse, when they show flower : as mollis, 

 from Mexico, with soft leaves and rose-coloured flowers ; it 

 has several varieties, as lutea, with rich orange flowers, 

 changing to pinkish-purple ; mutabilis, of a rich rose-colour, 

 and pale yellow in the centre ; and violacea, the flowers of 

 which are pale yellow, and become a rose-violet. 



