Produced by Jason Isbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE Botanical Magazine; OR, Flower-Garden Displayed: IN WHICH The most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Greenhouse, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural Colours. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to the celebrated Linnaeus; their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering: TOGETHER WITH THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE. A WORK Intended for the Use of such Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. By _WILLIAM CURTIS_, Author of the Flora Londinensis. VOL. IX. "But softer tasks divide Florella's hours; "To watch the buds just op'ning on the day; "With welcome shade to screen the languid flowers, "That sicken in the summer's parching ray. "Oft will she stoop amidst her evening walk, "With tender hand each bruised plant to rear; "To bind the drooping lily's broken stalk, "And nurse the blossoms of the infant year." Mrs. Barbauld. _LONDON_: PRINTED BY STEPHEN COUCHMAN, For W. CURTIS, N^o 3, _St. George's Crescent_, Black-Friars-Road; And Sold by the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland. M DCC XCV. [289] Convolvulus Linearis. Narrow-Leaved Convolvulus. _Class and Order._ Pentandria Monogynia. _Generic Character._ _Corolla_ campanulata, plicata. _Stigmata_ 2. _Caps._ 2-locularis: loculis dispermis. _Specific Character._ CONVOLVULUS _linearis_ caulibus erectis fruticosis, foliis linearibus acutis piloso-sericeis, floribus terminalibus umbellato-paniculatis, calycibus pilosis. [Illustration: N^o. 289] The plant here represented has long been cultivated as a greenhouse plant in this country under the name of _Convolvulus Cantabrica_, but it differs so essentially from that plant, as figured and described by Prof. Jacquin in his _Flora Austr._ and accords so little with the other species described by Linnaeus, that we have been induced to regard it as a perfectly distinct species; in most points it agrees with _Convolvulus Cneorum_, but differs in having leaves much narrower, more pointed, and less silky. It strikes most readily from cuttings, is a hardy greenhouse plant, and flowers during most of the Summer, qualities which many of the modern and more shewy greenhouse plants cannot boast. The precise time of its introduction here, together with its particular place of growth, we have not as yet been able satisfactorily to ascertain. [290] Amaryllis Lutea. Yellow Amaryllis. _Class and Order._ Hexandria Monogynia. _Generic Character._ _Corolla_ hexapetaloidea, irregularis. _Filamenta_ fauci tubi inserta, declinata, inaequalia proportione vel directione. _Linn. Fil._