SCHIZAN'THUS POR'RIGENS. 
SPREADING SCHIZANTHUS. 
Class. Order. 
DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULARIN/E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Chile. 
2 feet. 
June, Aug. 
Annual. 
in 1822. 
No. 126 . 
Schizanthus is deduced from two Greek words 
skizo, to cut; and anthos, a flower; and is ap- 
plied to this genus in allusion to the deep-cut seg- 
ments of its corolla. Porrigens, from the Latin, 
extending or spreading. 
This elegant annual has lately joined the gay 
assemblage of our flower borders. The divaricated 
and slender growth of its stems, as well as the fugi- 
tive delicacy of its flowers, demand a sheltered and 
shady situation. 
Its cultivation is not difficult, though at first we 
experienced some disappointment in the practice 
of it. The plants should be raised in pots, in a hot- 
bed, in the spring ; and whilst young they may be 
divided so as to leave three or four in each. It is 
particularly requisite, that they be kept moist. The 
soil should be light but not too sandy; and if they 
be afterwards turned into the borders, the situation 
rtiust be cool and damp, or the entire plants will be 
dried up and destroyed by the heat of the sun, whilst 
they are in flower. In pots, this annual forms an 
extremely elegant appendage to the Hall, or cool 
window of ihe Boudoir. 
Hooker’s Exot. Flor. t. 86 
