Order I. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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2991 Fruit sweet fleshy, Leaves glabrous a little shining 
2992 Fruit austere. Leaves downy quite opaque 
2993 Leaves 3-cornered incurved acute. Flowers terminal on the lateral branches 
2994 Leaves 3-cornered brown at end. Chaff of the heads exserted colored 
2995 Leaves half round erect-spreading withered at end at the base and branches hairy, Heads round latera" 
2996 Leaves 3-cornered obtuse smooth, Heads terminal, Branches whorled clustered 
2997 Leaves 3-cornered black at the end smooth. Heads terminal 
2998 Leaves ovate 3-cornered fleshy smooth, Heads terminal. Branches divaricating 
2999 Leaves 3-cornered and spiked. Flowers smooth 
3000 Leaves 3-cornered acute smooth, Heads lateral globose smooth 
3001 Leaves linear-lanceolate reflexed spreading : their edge fringed at base. Heads terminal corymbose 
3002 Leaves half rounded spreading incurved hairy at the end with a withered beard 
3003 Leaves 3-cornered appressed ciliated at edge 
3004 Leaves ovate acuminate ciliated. A very doubtful species 
3005 Leaves short acute 3-cornered at the end spreading fuscous and callous. Heads round at end of branches 
3006 Leaves ovate convex imbricated. Heads terminal hairy 
5007 A little shrub like a Cistus, with ovate stalked alternate pale-green leaves 
3008 Leaves ovate acute serrated. Spikes pubescent 
3009 Leaves wedge-lanceolate acute membranous nerved. Spikes slender 
3010 Leaves very long linear, Petals entire 
3011 Leaves short oval abruptly narrowed into the stalk 
3012 Leaves lanceolate. Raceme solitary elongated. Root tuberous 
3013 Leaves nerved : radical and cauline ovate, Raceme 1-sided, Petals bifid 
3014 Radical leaves spatulate ovate : cauline ovate distinct. Root fibrous 
3015 Radical leaves spatulate rhomb-shaped : cauline perfoliate 
3016 Hower-stalks clustered. Leaves lanceolate : the upper alternate. Spur shorter than flower 
3017 Leaves alternate oblong oval serrated. Leafstalks with many glands. Spur incurved as long as flower 
3018 Flower-stalks generally 2-flowered, Leaves ovate serrated. Flowers orange-brown spotted inside 
3019 Flower-stalks clustered. Leaves ovate. Points of stem tumid 
536. Cyrilla. In honor of Dominico Cyrilli, professor of medicine at Naples, and a fellow of the Royal 
Society of London. He published, in 1788, a work upon the rare plants of Naples, which is now one of the 
scarcest of botanical works. This is a pretty shrub. Young cuttings will root under a bell-glass in sand, but 
not very freely. 
537. Claytonia. In memory of Mr. John Clayton, who collected plants chiefly in Virginia, and sent them to 
Gronovius, who published them in his Flora Virginica. C. perfoliata is very hardy, and is not easily eradicated 
where once mtroduced. It grows on the poorest soil, vegetates early, and the whole of the herbage gathered 
and boiled makes a very tender spinage. 
538. Impatiens. A metaphorical name given to these plants on account of the elastic force with which their 
capsules burst, and scatter their seeds upon the slightest touch. I. Balsamina is one of the most beautiful of 
popular annuals, forming a shewy cone of finely variegated carnation-like flowers. The prevailing colors of the 
petals are red and white, the former extending to every shade of orange, purple, scarlet, lilac, pink, and espe- 
cially carnation or flesh color. Those are esteemed the most beautiful varieties which have the flowers double, 
and striped in the manner of a flake or bizarre carnation : but none of the varieties are permanent or can be 
continued by seeds, and the plant does not root readily by cuttings. The way to procure very large plants is to 
sow early in the season, as in March, to commence transplanting into 3-inch pots as soon as the plants have two 
proper leaves, and to shift every week or ten days into pots a size larger every time, till at last they are in pots of 
the largest or of a very large size, and in the richest light mould. The plants should be kept all the time in a 
hot-bed or pit, plunged, and with abundance of room and air, and the heat of the melon or pine. Fairweatner, 
by transplanting only three or four times from No. 48. pots to those of eight inches diameter raised, produced 
balsams " four feet high, and fifteen feet in circumference, with strong thick stems, furnished with side 
branches from bottom to top, and these covered with large double flowers." {Hort. Trans, iii. 406.) 
The juice of the balsam, prepared with alum, is used by the Japanese to dye their nails red. [Tkunberg.) 
I. Nolitangere, Ne me touchexpas, Fr., Springsame, Ger., and Erba Impatienta, Ital., is the only species found 
wild in Europe. When the seeds are ripe, upon touching the capsules, they are thrown out with considerable 
force : hence the names Impatiens and Nolitangere. In the day-time the leaves are expanded, but at night they 
hang pendent, contrary to what is observed in plants, which from a deficiency of moisture, or a too great per- 
spiration from heat, commonly droop their leaves during the day. Only the goat is said to eat this plant. 
J. biflora, the American Noli-me-tangere, resembles this plant, but is handsomer. 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
