fodil. _Park. Parad. p. 106.
t. 107. fig. 6. var. min. fig. 7._

[Illustration: No 88]

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._

[Illustration: No 89]

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 LINNAEUS, whence its name.

MILLER, who calls it _multifida_ from a former edition of
LINNAEUS'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. _Corollae_ radii ligulatae.
_Calyx_ imbricatus, squamis spinosis.

_Spe