PERIPLOCA GRiE'CA. 
GRECIAN PERIPLOCA. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Order. 
DIGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ASCLEPIADEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Syria. 
20 feet. 
July, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1597. 
No. 410. 
The name of this climbing- and twining shrub is 
not inaptly derived from the Greek word peri- 
ploke, signifying an intertwining and intricacy. 
Its specific name marks its native country. 
There are very few, we hope none, of the indivi- 
duals amongst mankind, but possess some quality 
commendable in the estimation of the most fasti- 
dious portion of society. It is too true, however, 
that the evil will, sometimes, counterbalance the 
good. Our vegetable inhabitants of the flower 
garden, fortunately, seldom exhibit any positively 
bad qualities, although a deficiency of attractive 
ones may be evident. The plant before us, for in- 
stance, is not rich in attractiveness of exterior, at 
first sight, but it has counterbalancing properties ; 
its blossoms become highly interesting on more in- 
timate acquaintance. Their colour is singular, and 
their formation more so. We seldom meet, in 
flowers, any appendage similar to the little inflected 
awns which seem carefully to unite in constituting 
a crown of protection over its parts of fructification. 
The parts of fructification too, themselves, indicate 
the most careful arrangement. The hoary-headed 
