Order I. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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4834 Radical leaves sword-shaped flat shorter than the stem with the keel and edges smooth. Panicle simple 
4835 Radical leaves ensiform long smooth at the edge and keel. Panicle upright 
4836 Leaves bright-green smooth. Panicle lax decomp. Sepals of pendulous flower reflexed, Filam. strumous 
4837 Leaves linear-lanceolate at the edge prickly. Keel smooth 
4838 Stem leaves numerous long ensiform rough at the edge and keel, Branches of panicle short 
4839 Leaves radical lin.-lanceolate at the keel and edges smooth. Panicle decompound straggling 
4840 Leaves ovate or elliptical-lanceolate. Anthers after flowering twisted 
4841 Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate. Anthers after flowering straight 
4842 Stem herbaceous round erect. Leaves setaceous 
4843 Stem herbaceous erect rounded. Leaves setaceous |-whorled and whorled, Stipules solitary unarmed 
4844 Stem half-climbing, Branches straggling, Leaves setaceous curved. Flowers globose 
4845 Stem unarmed rounded, Branches declinate. Leaves setaceous 
4846 Stem much branched wavy. Leaves setaceous pungent. Flowers campanulate 
4847 Stem herbaceous unarmed decumbent much branched. Branches wavy. Leaves setaceous 
4848 Herbaceous unarmed twining. Leaves lanceolate falcate 
4849 Stem herbaceous erect. Branches straight, Leaves bundled setaceous long, Pedunc. sol. nodding 
4850 Prickly solitary recurved. Branches round, Leaves fascicled linear falcate, Pedunc. 1-fl. clustered 
4851 Prickles solitary, Branches striated, Leaves bundled linear-subulate falcate. Racemes many-fl. axillary 
4852 Branches striated, Leaves linear falcate unequal. Flowers few 
4853 Prickles solitary, Branches round reflexed bent back, Leaves setaceous bundled 
4854 Prickles solitary. Stem erect. Branches filiform. Leaves bundled setaceous 
4855 Prickles solitary reversed. Branches angular. Leaves lanceolate linear 
485(S Prickles solitary. Branches angular wavy. Leaves bundled 3-cornered blunt deciduous 
4857 Stem unarmed angular shrubby, Leaves needle-like rigid perennial mucronate equal 
4858 Herbaceous unarmed. Branches wavy. Leaves lanceolate 
4859 Stem unarmed angular shrubby. Leaves subulate striated unequal diverging 
4860 Unarmed, Branches bent back. Leaves rounded subulate 
4861 Spines 4, Branches clustered rounded, Leaves setaceous 
4862 Leaves solitary linear lanceolate. Stem wavy. Prickles recurved 
4863 Leaves oval sub-erect plain. Raceme long cylinarical, Bractes hooked back upon themselves 
4864 Leaves linear lane, obliquely bent smooth. Flowers nodding 
4865 Leaves linear keeled ciliated 
4866 Leaves lanceolate smooth channelled at base, Flowers erect 
4867 Leaves wedge-shaped smooth, Scape few-flowered 
4868 Leaves lanceolate smooth wavy. Peduncles horizontal 
4869 Leaves linear lanceolate half-round 
4870 Leaves broad lanceolate erect much shorter than scape. Peduncles very long 
4871 An undescribed species, said to be in the gardens about London 
4872 Leaves bright green channelled striated, Sepals oval the length of stamens 
4873 Leaves glaucous. Raceme lax, Sepals linear much spreading longer than stam. 
>V ,,4842 \\ VWIli ^\:«U . . 4850 4853 
4861 ir'4854' 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
is much resorted to by the sedentary operative classes, as taylors, weavers, &c. when they are troubled with 
symptoms of gravel or stone. 
There are some varieties and subvarieties of asparagus, but excepting the red-topped and green-topped, the 
others are merely local varieties, and can hardly be said to be obtainable by seed. 
In the kitchen garden asparagus is generally grown in beds four feet broad, and in rows a foot or eighteen 
mches apart by mne inches in the row. The plants are either raised from seed where they are to remain, or 
raised on a seed-bed the preceding year and transplanted. The value of the crop depends on the soil being 
dry, sandy, trenched two and a half or three feet deep, and powerfully manured. During winter the beds are 
covered with dung or litter to protect them from the frost. In spring this is raked off into the alleys and dug 
m, while the beds are stirred with a fork, to admit the air, heat, rain, &c. to stimulate the rising shoots. 
Asparagus from seed will be fit to cut the third year, in perfection the fifth, and will continue good for ten or 
twelve years. The season for cutting is from the middle of April to the middle of June. 
Asparagus IS extensively forced, generally by taking up the roots and placing them on dung or tan beds; 
Rv\lTf ^ T*^^ forcing is given by covering the beds with dung in the manner of forcing sea-cale. 
^ Jzl i"^"" V^ode earlier crops are obtained, but the roots are lost ; by the latter, the crop is only forwarded 
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817. Drimia. So called from the Greek word caustic, because the juice of the roots is so very acrid, 
si« r) ''PP^''^'^ sl^^"' cause inflammation and even blisters, 
fho fl ^'■"Z'^^^fO"- From a tail, and ■nrocXov, a petal, in allusion to the manner in which the divisions of 
not ge^^^'^ ^if ^^"^"'^"ed out. Curious and rare bulbous plants, very nearly related to Zuccagnia ; i>erhaps 
