Geraniums, and is readily propagated by
cuttings.

Was first introduced to the Royal Garden at Kew, by Mr. MASSON,
in 1774, from the Cape, of which, it is a native. _Ait. Hort. Kew._

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HYPERICUM BALEARICUM. WARTY ST. JOHN'S-WORT.

_Class and Order._

POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ 5. _Nectarium_ 0. _Capsula_.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

HYPERICUM _balearicum_ floribus pentagynis, caule fruticoso foliis
ramisque cicatrizatis. _Linn. Syst. Veget. p. 102._

MYRTO-CISTUS pennaei _Clus. Hist. 1. p. 68._

[Illustration: No 137]

Is according to LINNAEUS a native of _Majorca_; MILLER
says that it grows naturally in the Island of _Minorca,_ from whence the
seeds were sent to England by Mr. SALVADOR, an Apothecary at
Barcelona, in the year 1718.

The stalks of this species are usually of a bright red colour, and
covered with little warts; the leaves are small with many depressions on
their upper sides like scars; the flowers are not always solitary, but
frequently form a kind of Corymbus.

It is a hardy green-house plant, and readily propagated by cuttings.

It flowers during most of the Summer.

CLUSIUS informs us in his _Hist. pl. rar. p. 68._ that he
received from THOMAS PENNY, a Physician of London, in the year
1580, a figure of this elegant plant, and who the next year shewed a
dried specimen of the same in London, which had been gathered in the
Island of Majorca, and named by him [Greek: murto kison], or
Myrtle-Cistus[2] it appears therefore that this plant has long been
known, if not cultivated in this country.

We may remark that CLUSIUS's figure of this plant is not
equally expressive with many of his others.

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KALMIA HIRSUTA. HAIRY KALMIA.

_Class and Order._

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ 5-partitus. _Corolla_ hypocrateriformis: limbo subtus
quinquecorni _Caps._ 5-locularis.

_Specific Character._

KALMIA _hirsuta_ foliis ovato-lanceolatis hirsutis sparsis, floribus
racemosis.

[Illustration: No 138]

This new species of Kalmia which we have called _hirsuta,_ the stalk,
leaves, and calyx, being covered with strong hairs, was imported from
Carolina in the Spring of 1790, by Mr. WATSON, Nurseryman at
Islington, with whom several plants of it flowered this present Autumn,
about the middle of September, from one of which our drawing was made.

The plants were broug