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sertccl in the mouth of the tube, 4 opposite to the petals,
and 4 alternating with them; filaments smooth, about half
the length of the jietals, inserted in the hack of the anthers:
pollen stringy, straw-coloured. Style smooth, reaching
beyond the stamens. Stigma 4-cleft, the segments nearly
cylindrical, blunt, succulent, spreading.
One of our finest hardy perennials, native of plains near
the red river in North America, where it was first discovered
by Mr. Nuttall; it is now becoming plentiful in our
collections, where it thrives well in the open borders in a
rich light soil, and soon makes a large plant, as it produces
shoots from its base, which run under ground, and
come up at some distance from the original stem; these
shoots taken off in Spring will become strong plants before
Autumn, but if taken oft' in Autumn, they will seldom
succeed so well, being very apt to die oft' before they have
made suilicient roots; young cuttings, planted under handglasses
in Spring or early in Summer, will strike root readily,
and will become strong and well rooted enough to
stand the 'Winter; but if struck late in the Summer, their
roots will not be sufficiently rij)ened to keep them alive
through that season; we have seen a great quantity of them
die off through that circumstance.
Our drawing was made from fine specimens, given to us
by Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill, where it was grown
in a border of peat soil, and was thriving luxuriantly, producing
a great number of its fine large flowers; we also
received fine specimens of it from Messrs. Young, Nurserymen,
at Epsom, Surrey, where we, last Summer, saw
a considerable clump of it in full bloom.
1, Cajyx. 2. The 8 Stamens inserted in tlio month o f the tube, the anthers
inserted to tlie filaments by tlieir back. 3. Tlie Ovarinm. 4. The upper part
o f the Ovarimn terminated by the long Style and the four-cleft spreading
Stigma.
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