unis_ foliis ensiformibus, floribus distantibus.

GLADIOLUS utrinque floridus? _Bauh. Pin. 41._

The French Corn-Flag. _Park. Parad. p. 189. t. 191. f. 1._

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Grows wild in the corn fields of most of the warmer parts of Europe,
varies with white and flesh-coloured blossoms, increases so fast, both
by offsets and seeds, as to become troublesome to the cultivator; hence,
having been supplanted by the Greater Corn-Flag, the _Byzantinus_ of
MILLER, whose blossoms are larger, and more shewy, it is not so
generally found in gardens as formerly.

It flowers in June.

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HYOSCYAMUS AUREUS. GOLDEN-FLOWER'D HENBANE.

_Class and Order._

PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Corolla_ infundibuliformis, obtusa. _Stamina_ inclinata. _Capsula_
operculata 2-locularis.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

HYOSCYAMUS _aureus_ foliis petiolatis dentatis acutis floribus
pedunculatis, fructibus pendulis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 220._

HYOSCYAMUS creticus luteus major. _Bauh. Pin. 169._

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A native of Crete, and other parts of the East.

"Flowers most part of the summer, but seldom ripens seeds in England;
will continue for several years, if kept in pots and sheltered in
winter, for it will not live in the open air during that season; if
placed under a common hot-bed frame, where it may enjoy as much free air
as possible in mild weather, it will thrive better than when more
tenderly treated.

"It may be easily propagated by cuttings, which if planted in a shady
border and covered with hand-glasses, in any of the summer months, they
will take root in a month or six weeks, and may be afterwards planted in
pots and treated like the old plants." MILLER's _Gard. Dict._

It is, however, a more common practice to keep this plant in the stove
in the winter; one advantage, at least, attends this method, we secure
it with certainty.

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NARCISSUS BULBOCODIUM. HOOP PETTICOAT NARCISSUS.

_Class and Order._

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Petala_ 6, aequalia: _Nectario_ infundibuliformi, 1-phyllo. _Stamina_
intra nectarium.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

NARCISSUS _Bulbocodium_ spatha uniflora, nectario turbinato petalis
majore, staminibus pistilloque declinatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p.
317._

NARCISSUS montanus juncifolius, calyce aureo. _Bauhin. p. 53._

The greater yellow Junquilia, or bastard Daf