dehiscens.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

COLUTEA _arborescens_ arborea foliolis obcordatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab.
p. 668._

COLUTEA vesicaria. _Bauh. Pin. 396._

The greater Bastard Senna with bladders. _Park. Par. 440._

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The Bladder Senna, a native of the South of France and Italy, produces a
profusion of bloom from June to August, when its inflated pods please
from the singularity of their appearance; on these accounts, it is one
of the most common flowering shrubs cultivated in gardens and
plantations.

"It is propagated by sowing its seeds any time in the spring in a bed of
common earth; and when the plants are come up, they must be kept clear
from weeds, and the Michaelmas following they should be transplanted
either into nursery-rows, or in the places where they are designed to
remain; for if they are let grow in the seed-bed too long, they are very
subject to have tap roots, which render them unfit for transplanting;
nor should these trees be suffered to remain too long in the nursery
before they are transplanted, for the same reason." _Miller's Gard.
Dict._

We have learned by experience, that a very wet soil will prove fatal to
these shrubs.

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LACHENALIA TRICOLOR. THREE-COLOURED LACHENALIA.

_Class and Order._

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ subtriphyllus, inferus, coloratus. _Corolla_ 3-petala,
receptaculo inferta. _Jacquin jun. in act. helv. vol. 9._

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

LACHENALIA _tricolor_. _Lin. Syst, Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 314._ _Jacq.
Icon. pl. rarior, t. 3._

PHORMIUM _Aloides_. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 336. Suppl. 205._

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To Mr. LEE, of the Vineyard, Hammersmith, the first, and as we
understand, the only Nurseryman as yet in possession of this plant,
which has but lately been introduced into this country from the Cape, we
are indebted for the present specimen.

Mr. JACQUIN, jun. who has figured and described it in the _Acta
Helvetica_, gives it the name of _Lachenalia_, in honour of WARNERUS
de la CHENAL, a very eminent Swiss Botanist, and the particular
friend of the late illustrious HALLER. Our readers should be
informed, that it had before been called by two other different names,
viz. _Hyacinthus orchiodes_, and _Phormium aloides_, under the latter of
which it now stands in the 14th edition of the _Systema Vegetabilium_,
as well as that of _Lachenali