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THE LADIES’ FLOWER GARDEN 
CHAPTER XX. 
LIMNANTHACE/E. 
Essential Character. —A simple style. Fruit divided into deep lobes. Gynobase never fleshy. Stamens perigynous.— ( Lindl .) 
GENUS I. 
LIMNANTHES, JR. Br. THE LIMNANTHES. 
Lin. Syst. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. —Calyx 5-parted. Petals 5. Stamens 10. Capsules 5.— (Hook.) 
1.—LIMNANTHES DOUGLASII, R. Br. DOUGLAS’S LIMNANTHES. 
Engravings _Bot. Reg. t. 1673, Bot. Mag. t. 3554, and our fig. 
3, in Plate 20. 
Specific Character. —Plant glabrous. Stems much branched, 
terete, decumbent. Leaves alternate on long petioles, pinnate. 
Leaflets acute, entire, or incised, sometimes pinnatifid. Peduncles 
axillary, and about as long as the leaves. Flowers solitary. Calyx 
deeply cut into 5 spreading segments. Petals 5. Stamens 10, shorter 
than the petals. Style single, shorter than the stamens. Stigmas of 
5 rays each, tipped with a little globose head. 
Description, &c. —A very pretty hardy annual, introduced by poor Douglas, in 1832, from California. 
Its flowers, which are fragrant, are curious from their colour, which is half bright-yellow, and half-pure white. 
The stems are much branched and decumbent, so that a single plant covers a large space. The leaves are 
slightly pinnate ; and the leaflets are deeply cut. The whole plant is rather succulent, and tastes, when bitten, 
like the Nasturtium , or water-cress. It requires a moist shady situation, having been found near a lake. The 
name Limnanthes , indeed, signifies a lake-flower. This plant is interesting to the botanist, from its having been 
made, by Dr. Brown, the type of a new order. The order, indeed, only includes this genus and Floerkea , 
another Californian annual, not yet introduced. The seeds of the Limnanthes , like those of all the Californian 
annuals, may ho sown at almost any season, when the ground is not hard with frost, and they will generally be 
in flower about six weeks after sowing. The usual season for sowing it is, however, April, when it will flower 
early in June. Seeds may be had at any of the seed-shops, and they should be sown thinly where they are 
to remain. 
CHAPTER XXI. 
TROPiEQLACEiE. 
Essential Character. —Sepals 5, the upper one with a long 
distinct spur ; aestivation quincuncial. Petals 5, unequal, irrregular ; 
the 2 upper sessile and remote, arising from the throat of the calyx, 
the 3 lower stalked and smaller, sometimes abortive. Stamens 8, 
perigynous, distinct. Anthers innate, erect, 2-celled. Ovary 1, 
3-cornered, made up of 3 carpels. Style 1. Stigmas 3, acute. 
Ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit indehiscent, separable into 3 pieces 
from a common axis. Seeds large, without albumen, filling the cavity 
in which they lie. Embryo large. Cotyledons 2, straight, thick, 
consolidated together into a single body. Radicle lying within pro¬ 
jections of the cotyledons.— (Lindl.) 
GENUS I. 
TROP/EOLUM, Lin. THE NASTURTIUM. 
Lin. Syst. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. —Calyx 5-parted, upper lobe furnished with a spur. Petals 5, 3 lower ones smaller or vanished. 
Stamens 8, free. — (G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —The two commonest kinds of these beautiful flowers are so much cultivated, that there 
is scarcely a child, who has ever seen a garden, who is not acquainted with them. Tropaeolum minus was the 
