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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.
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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, ?qualia: 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._
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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.
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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 LINN?US, whence its name.
MILLER, who calls it multifida from a former edition of LINN?US'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 treating it, will be to place the roots in a pot of loam and bog earth mixed, and plunge the pot into a north border, where it must be sheltered in the winter, or taken up and kept in a common hot-bed frame.

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GORTERIA RIGENS. RIGID-LEAV'D GORTERIA.
Class and Order.
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA.
Generic Character.
Receptaculum nudum. Pappus lanatus. Coroll? radii ligulat?. Calyx imbricatus, squamis spinosis.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
GORTERIA rigens foliis lanceolatis pinnatifidis, caule depresso, scapis unifloris. Lin. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. _Murr. 783. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 1284._
ARCTOTIS ramis decumbentibus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis rigidis, subtus argenteis. Mill. Dict. et Icon. t. 49.
ARCTOTHECA foliis rigidis leniter dissectis. Vaill. act. 1728. n. 9.
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The GORTERIA, of which there are several species, and most of them, like the present, natives of the Cape, has been named in honour of DAVID DE GORTER, author of the Flora Zutphanica and Ingrica; the trivial name of rigens is given to this species from the rigidity of its leaves, a term which it is sometimes apt to exchange for the more common botanic name of ringens; an instance of such mistake occurs in the 6th edition of MILLER's Gard. Dict.
The greenhouse, to which it properly belongs, can scarcely boast a more shewy plant; its blossoms, when expanded by the heat of the sun, and it is only when the sun shines on them that they are fully expanded, exhibit an unrivalled brilliancy of appearance.
It flowers in June, but rarely brings its seeds to perfection in this country, which is of the less consequence, as the plant is readily enough increased by cuttings.
It requires the common treatment of a