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thumb-pots filled with light sandy peat. The pots in which no young plants appear should not be thrown away 
till the following May, as after remaining dormant so long, the seeds will sometimes come up ; and even 
after that period the earth should be carefully turned out of the pot, and the ball sunk in a shady situation in a 
well-drained bed or border, taking care that the seeds are not deeper than they were in the pot. The pots should 
then be turned over them; and, if looked at from time to time, the seedlings will be found sometimes to have come 
up after they have been for several months in the ground. 
“ The young plants of the Hunnemania, if in a greenhouse, should be kept in an airy place near the glass; 
and if the seeds were sown as soon as they were ripe, the young plants by the beginning of October ought to be 
transplanted into one size larger pots, in which they should remain till the end of March, when they should be 
potted into rich soil, and inured to the air as much as possible, in order to prepare them for being planted into the 
open border by the end of May. They will come into flower almost immediately, and will continue flowering 
from the 1st of June till killed by the autumnal frosts. They do not seed freely out of doors, and therefore a 
plant or two should be kept in the greenhouse or frame for seed. These plants should be kept in small pots and 
a poor soil in order to throw them into seed. Argemone grandiflora, when grown as an annual, may be treated 
exactly like Hunnemania ; except that it may be planted out by the beginning of May, from which time it will 
flower to the end of September. When grown as a perennial it will not require any protection during winter, 
as it is quite hardy.” D. B. 
Seeds of Hunnemania are rather scarce, but they may be obtained at Mr. Charlwood’s, Tavistock Row, 
Covent Garden. 
CHAPTER III. 
SUB-ORDER FUMARIEiE. 
Essential Character. —Sepals 2, deciduous. Petals 4, cruciate, 
parallel ; tlie two outer either one or both saccate at the base; the 
two inner callous and coloured at the apex, where they cohere and 
enclose the anthers and stigma. Stamens 6, in two parcels, opposite 
the outer petals, very seldom all separate ; anthers membranous, the 
outer of each parcel 1-celled, the middle one 2-celled. Ovary supe¬ 
rior, 1-celled; ovules horizontal; style filiform; stigma with two or 
more points. Fruit various; either an indehiscent 1 or 2-seeded nut, 
or a 2-valved or succulent indehiscent polyspermous pod. Seeds hori¬ 
zontal, shining, crested. Albumen fleshy. Embryo minute, out of the 
axis ; in the indehiscent fruit straight; in those which dehisce some¬ 
what arcuate. ( Lindl .) 
Observations, &c. —The Fumitory tribe is made a distinct order by Professor De Candolle and many other 
botanists; while Bernhardi and others consider the plants included in it as belonging to Papaveracese ; and 
Dr. Lindley has made Fumariese a sub-order of Papaveracese. We have followed the latter arrangement. “ The 
arguments of Bernhardi,” Dr. Lindley observes, “ for the combination of Papaveracese and Fumarieae are remark¬ 
ably unsatisfactory ; and certainly have produced no impression on my mind. But the seeds, and very often the 
fruit of these plants are so much the same, and the genus Ilypecoum is so exactly intermediate between the two, 
