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germini adhærentia.
Calyx deorsum productus.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
SPARTIUM junceum ramis oppositis teretibus apice floriferis, foliis
lanceolatis. Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 643.
SPARTIUM arborescens, feminibus lenti similibus. Bauh. Pin. 396.
Spanish Broom. Park. Parad. p. 442. t. 443. fig. 4.
[Illustration: No 85]
Grows naturally in France, Spain, Italy, and Turkey; bears our climate
extremely well; is a common shrub in our nurseries and plantations,

which it much enlivens by its yellow blossoms: flowers from June to
August, or longer in cool seasons.
Is raised by seeds, which generally come up plentifully under the
shrubs.
MILLER mentions a variety of it, which, as inferior to the common sort,
does not appear to be worth cultivating.

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GLADIOLUS COMMUNIS. COMMON CORN-FLAG.
Class and Order.
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Generic Character.
Corolla sexpartita, ringens. Stamina adscendentia.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
GLADIOLUS communis foliis ensiformibus, floribus distantibus.
GLADIOLUS utrinque floridus? Bauh. Pin. 41.
The French Corn-Flag. Park. Parad. p. 189. t. 191. f. 1.
[Illustration: No 86]
Grows wild in the corn fields of most of the warmer parts of Europe,
varies with white and flesh-coloured blossoms, increases so fast, both
by offsets and seeds, as to become troublesome to the cultivator; hence,
having been supplanted by the Greater Corn-Flag, the Byzantinus of
MILLER, whose blossoms are larger, and more shewy, it is not so
generally found in gardens as formerly.

It flowers in June.

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HYOSCYAMUS AUREUS. GOLDEN-FLOWER'D HENBANE.
Class and Order.
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.
Generic Character.
Corolla infundibuliformis, obtusa. Stamina inclinata. Capsula
operculata 2-locularis.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
HYOSCYAMUS aureus foliis petiolatis dentatis acutis floribus
pedunculatis, fructibus pendulis. Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 220.
HYOSCYAMUS creticus luteus major. Bauh. Pin. 169.
[Illustration: No 87]
A native of Crete, and other parts of the East.
"Flowers most part of the summer, but seldom ripens seeds in England;
will continue for several years, if kept in pots and sheltered in winter,
for it will not live in the open air during that season; if placed under a
common hot-bed frame, where it may enjoy as much free air as
possible in mild weather, it will thrive better than when more tenderly
treated.
"It may be easily propagated by cuttings, which if planted in a shady
border and covered with hand-glasses, in any of the summer months,
they will take root in a month or six weeks, and may be afterwards
planted in pots and treated like the old plants." MILLER's Gard. Dict.

It is, however, a more common practice to keep this plant in the stove
in the winter; one advantage, at least, attends this method, we secure it
with certainty.

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NARCISSUS BULBOCODIUM. HOOP PETTICOAT NARCISSUS.
Class and Order.
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Generic Character.
Petala 6, æqualia: Nectario infundibuliformi, 1-phyllo. Stamina intra
nectarium.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
NARCISSUS Bulbocodium spatha uniflora, nectario turbinato petalis
majore, staminibus pistilloque declinatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 317._
NARCISSUS montanus juncifolius, calyce aureo. Bauhin. p. 53.
The greater yellow Junquilia, or bastard Daffodil. _Park. Parad. p. 106.
t. 107. fig. 6. var. min. fig. 7._
[Illustration: No 88]
Grows spontaneously in Portugal; flowers in the open border about the
middle of May, is an old inhabitant of our gardens, but, like the
triandrus, is now become scarce, at least in the nurseries about London;
in some gardens in Hampshire we have seen it grow abundantly:
MILLER calls it the Hoop Petticoat Narcissus, the nectary, as he
observes, being formed like the ladies hoop petticoats.
It certainly is one of the neatest and most elegant of the genus, is

propagated by offsets, and should be planted in a loamy soil, with an
Eastern exposure.

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VIOLA PEDATA CUT-LEAV'D VIOLET.
Class and Order.
SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA.
Generic Character.
Calyx 5-phyllus. Cor. 5-petala, irregularis, postice cornuta. Capsula
supera, 3-valvis; 1-locularis.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
VIOLA pedata acaulis, foliis pedatis septempartitis. _Lin. Syst. Veget.
ed. 14. Murr. p. 802. Spec. Pl. p. 1323. Gronov. Fl. Virg. ed. 2. p. 135._
VIOLA tricolor caule nudo, foliis tenuius dissectis. Banist. Virg.
VIOLA inodora flore purpurascente specioso, foliis ad modum
digitorum incisis. Clayt. n. 254.
[Illustration: No 89]
This species of Violet, a native of Virginia, is very rarely met with in
our gardens; the figure we have given, was drawn from a plant which
flowered this spring in the garden of THOMAS SYKES, Esq. at
Hackney, who possesses a very fine collection of plants, and of
American ones in particular.
It is more remarkable for the singularity of its foliage than the beauty of
its blossoms; the former exhibit a very good example of the _folium
pedatum_ of LINNÆUS, whence its name.

MILLER, who calls it multifida from a former edition of LINNÆUS's
Species Plantarum, says, that the flowers are not succeeded by seeds
here, hence it can only be propagated by parting its roots.
The best mode of