Order 1. 
ENNEANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
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5664 Leaves palm, acute roughish, Leafst. above obscurely furrowed rounded at edge 
5665 Leaves somewhat lobed very obtuse shining finely toothletted smooth 
5666 Leaves cordate ovate entire flat smooth, Leafst. half-round angular, Panicle furrowed 
5667 Leaves very obtuse somewhat warted. Veins beneath spinulose, Leafst. flat above rounded at edge 
5668 Leaves smooth above somewhat lobed acute. Recess of base contracted 
HEXAGYNIA. 
5669 Flowers in handsome terminal umbels 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
mand was not produced to encourage the cultivator. The only point in which British culture was rather 
deficient was in the drying, but that a little experience would soon have overcome. 
R. Rhaponticum and hybridum, indeed any of the species, are or may be cultivated for the petioles of the 
leaves in a green state, to be used in tarts and pies, as a substitute or along with gooseberries. All that is re- 
quired is a dry soil well enriched and trenched two, or better, three feet deep. The plants the year after plant- 
ing may have half their leaves slipped ofF for the cook, as soon as they arrive at full growth. Keeping the 
plants from flowering will obviously strengthen the leaves. 
Tart rhubarb may be forced either by taking up the roots and planting them in pots, or by covering them 
with dung where they grow in the open garden, as is done with sea-kale. It may also be blanched, as is done 
with that vegetable. (See Encyc. of Gard. art. Rheum.) 
R. Ribes is so called from a rob made from its stalks, and called Ryhes of Serapias. 
It is thought that all the supposed species are reducible to Rhaponticum, undulatum, palmatum, and ribes. 
It is certainly very difficult to distinguish the others. 
939. Butomus. From /3»j, an ox, and Ti//.v<i;, to cut ; the sharp leaves^of the plant cut and cause to bleed the 
mouths of cattle feeding upon it. 
This is the only plant of the class Enneandria that grows wild in Britain. It is an elegant aquatic. " The 
water- Gladiole, or grassie-Rush," says Gerarde, " is of all others the fairest and most pleasant to behold, and 
serveth very well for the decking and trimming up of houses, because of the beautie and braverie thereof" 
The corolla varies in different shades of red, or purple mixed with white, and is sometimes entirely white. 
The stem at bottom and the peduncles ai top are often tinged with red. The number three is evidently pre- 
dominant in the fructification ; the corolla being doubly tripetalous, the stamens thrice three, the pistils six, 
the capsules six, in a hexagon form, the involucre three-leaved. 
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