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Convolvulus Linearis. Narrow-Leaved Convolvulus.
_Class and Order._
Pentandria Monogynia.
_Generic Character._
_Corolla_ campanulata, plicata. _Stigmata_ 2. _Caps._ 2-locularis:
loculis dispermis.
_Specific Character._
CONVOLVULUS _linearis_ caulibus erectis fruticosis, foliis
linearibus acutis piloso-sericeis, floribus terminalibus
umbellato-paniculatis, calycibus pilosis.
[Illustration: N^o. 289]
The plant here represented has long been cultivated as a greenhouse
plant in this country under the name of _Convolvulus Cantabrica_, but it
differs so essentially from that plant, as figured and described by
Prof. Jacquin in his _Flora Austr._ and accords so little with the other
species described by Linnaeus, that we have been induced to regard it as
a perfectly distinct species; in most points it agrees with _Convolvulus
Cneorum_, but differs in having leaves much narrower, more pointed, and
less silky.
It strikes most readily from cuttings, is a hardy greenhouse plant, and
flowers during most of the Summer, qualities which many of the modern
and more shewy greenhouse plants cannot boast.
The precise time of its introduction here, together with its particular
place of growth, we have not as yet been able satisfactorily to
ascertain.
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Amaryllis Lutea. Yellow Amaryllis.
_Class and Order._
Hexandria Monogynia.
_Generic Character._
_Corolla_ hexapetaloidea, irregularis. _Filamenta_ fauci tubi
inserta, declinata, inaequalia proportione vel directione. _Linn.
Fil._
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
AMARYLLIS _lutea_ spatha indivisa obtusa, flore sessili, corolla
campanulata erecta basi breve tubulosa, staminibus erectis,
alternis brevioribus. _Linn. Fil. Ait. Kew. v. 21. p. 415._