Though a native of Persia, it bears our severest winters without injury, has a pleasing appearance when in bud, flowers in May, and is readily propagated by suckers; but finer plants, in the opinion of MILLER, are raised from seeds. It will grow in almost any soil or situation, even in London, but, to flower well, it must have a pure air. [Footnote 1: The name, indeed, of one of our colours is taken from its blossoms. This Quotation from Gerard referring to its Smell belongs to the Philadelphus coronarius or Mock-orange which both by him and Parkinson is called Syringa, & which led to the Mistake.] [184] IXIA CROCATA. SAFFRON-COLOUR'D IXIA. _Class and Order._ TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _Generic Character._ _Cor._ 6-partita, campanulata, regularis. _Stigmata_ 3. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ IXIA _crocata_ foliis ensiformibus, floribus secundis corolia basi hyalino-fenestratis. _Thunb. Diss. de Ixia._ _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. Murr. p. 85._ IXIA _crocata_ foliis ensiformibus, floribus alternis, tubo longitudine bractearum, corollae laminis ovatis integerrimis basi hyalinis. _Ait. Hort. Kew. p. 60. V. 1._ IXIA planifolia, caule multifloro spatha brevissima. _Mill. Ic. 160. t. 239. f. 2._ To the Cape of Good Hope, that never-failing source of rare and beautiful plants, we are indebted for most of our Ixias, and among others for the present species, which though not of that value, nor possessing the delicacy or fragrance of the blossoms of some others, is a very desirable plant, not only as an object of curiosity, from the transparency of the base of the corolla, but as it adds much to the brilliancy of a collection, is easily obtained, and as easily propagated. It flowers in May and June, but its flowering may be prolonged by putting its bulbs into pots at different periods, or accelerated by artificial heat. It produces offsets more plentifully than many of the genus. Mr. AITON informs us that it was cultivated by Mr. MILLER in 1758, who figures it in his _Icones_. [Illustration] [185] CORONILLA VALENTINA. RUE-LEAVED CORONILLA. _Class and Order._ DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 2-labiatus: 2/3: dentibus superioribus connatis. _Vexillum_ vix alis longius. _Legumen_ isthmis interceptum. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ CORONILLA _valentina_ fruticosa, foliolis subnovenis, stipulis suborbiculatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 669._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. V. 3. p. 58._ POLYGALA valentina. _Clus. hist. pl. rar. p. 98. fig. inf._