SPARTIUM arborescens, feminibus lenti similibus. _Bauh. Pin. 396._ Spanish Broom. _Park. Parad. p. 442. t. 443. fig. 4._ [Illustration: No 85] Grows naturally in France, Spain, Italy, and Turkey; bears our climate extremely well; is a common shrub in our nurseries and plantations, which it much enlivens by its yellow blossoms: flowers from June to August, or longer in cool seasons. Is raised by seeds, which generally come up plentifully under the shrubs. MILLER mentions a variety of it, which, as inferior to the common sort, does not appear to be worth cultivating. [86] GLADIOLUS COMMUNIS. COMMON CORN-FLAG. _Class and Order._ TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _Generic Character._ _Corolla_ sexpartita, ringens. _Stamina_ adscendentia. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ GLADIOLUS _communis_ foliis ensiformibus, floribus distantibus. GLADIOLUS utrinque floridus? _Bauh. Pin. 41._ The French Corn-Flag. _Park. Parad. p. 189. t. 191. f. 1._ [Illustration: No 86] 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. [87] 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._ [Illustration: No 87] 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. [88] 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._