By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. 269 



p. 276. Stratiotes alismoides. Smith Ex. Bot. v. 1. p. 27. 

 t. 15. 



A tender aquatic, which thrives so well in a pan of water 

 with a little mud at the bottom, that no stove ought to be 

 without it. The flowers appear in succession during the 

 whole summer ; and it may be propagated by seeds, which 

 ripen here, and come up plentifully round the mother plant, 

 if the soil is not disturbed. It was introduced by Sir Brooke 

 Booth by, Bart, about 1788, in whose stove at Ashborn, in 

 Derbyshire, I first saw it. 



BROMELE/E. 



Bromelia Aqutlega. Par. Lond. n. 40. cum Ic. Bromelia 

 bracteata. Swartz. FL Ind. Occ. v. l.p. 583. Aloe americana, 

 &c. Houst. Reliq. p. 7. t. 16. 



Young plants of this were sent to me accidentally among 

 some Pine Apple seedlings, in 1786, from the island of Ja- 

 maica ; one of these nourished exceedingly, while I resided at 

 Chapel Allerton, but never flowered. It was cultivated in a 

 large pot plunged in a bark-bed, under the shade of taller 

 plants : and having attained such a size, that all its leaves, 

 collectively, held about a gallon of water, it would no doubt, 

 at last hav e shot up a magnificent panicle. To make it flower 

 sooner, perhaps, the roots ought to be confined in a small 

 compass, and little water suffered to remain in the bosom of 

 its leaves, keeping the plant in the hottest temperature. It 

 grows wild on old trees, or rocks, and must be propagated 

 by seeds, the plant dying, as Mr. Biggs informs ine, after 

 it has ripened them, without sending out suckers. 



Pi tc a 1 rn 1 a S u l p h u r e a . K am. in Bot. Rep. n . 249- cum Ic. 

 Pitcairnia bracteata /3. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 1416. cum Is. 



