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P L A T E CCCXXVL
P H A R N A C E U M LINEARE.
Lmear-leaved Pharnaceum.
C L A S S V. ORDER IIL
PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Five Chives. Tiiree Pointal.
GENERIC
CALYX. Perianthium pentaphylUiraj foliolis
fubovatis, concavis, patentibus, aequalibus,
perfiñentibus, intus coloratus, margine tenui.
COROLLA nulla; hinc calycis margo tenuis et
calyx interne coloratus.
S T A M I N A . Filamenta quinqué, fubulata, longitudine
calycis. Antherae bafi bifidae.
P I S T I L L A . Germen ovatum, trigonum. Styli
tres, filiformes, longitudine flaminum. Stigmata
obtufa.
P E K I C A R P I U M . Capfula ovata, obfoletè trigona,
te6ta, trilocularis, trivalvis.
SUMINA numerofa, nitida, orbiculata, deprefla,
margine acuto cinfta.
S P E C I F I C
Pharnacenm foliis linearibus, verticillatis; umbellis
inequalibus; calycibus aurantiis;
caule decumbente.
CHARACTER.
EMPALEMENT. Cup five-leaved; leaflets nearly
egg-ihaped, concave, fpreading, equal, permanent,
coloured witliin, with a thin edge.
BLOSSOM none; hence the edge of the cup is
thin and the iniide of it is coloured.
CHIVES. Five-threads, awl-iliaped, the length
of the cup. Tips cleft at the bafe.
P O I N T A L S . Seed-bud egg-(haped, three-fided.
Shafts three, thread-fliaped, the length of
the chives. Summits blunt.
SEED-VESSEL. Capfule egg-lhaped, bluntly
three-cornered, covered, three-celled, three
valves.
SEEDS numerous, ihining, orbicular, flattened,
I furrounded by a fliarp rim.
CHAEACTEK.
Pharuaceum with linear leaves, growing in
whorls; umbels unequal ; cups orange co-.
loured; ftem bending downwards.
E E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The Cup, fliewn from the front, with the chives.
2. The fame, iliewn from the hind part attached to the fruit-ftalk.
3. The Seed-bud and Pointals, natural fize.
4. The fame, magnified.
5. The Seed-bud, cut tranfverfely, magnified.
T H I S little plant much refembles our Corn Spurry, or Spergula arvenfis, at firft fight. It is a native
of the Cape of Good Hope, feldom grows more than lix inches high, and is very apt to be deftroyed
by the damps of our winters. It fliould be placed in the airyeft part of the green houfe, and kept in
light fandy loam. To propagate it, the cuttings ihould be put in, about the month of March, in the
heat of a gentle hot-bed, or the bark-bed of the hot-houfe; the feeds are fometimes perfeSed. It
has been often introduced to us, but as often loft; as it is not a plant of much fliew, no great deal of
pains has, hitherto, been taken for its prefervation. Our drawing was taken from a plant in the
Hibbertian ColleSion, in the month of July, 1802.
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