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A graft hybrid form between the common Laburnum and Cytisus purpureus, the result being flowers of the Laburnum, the true Cytisus purpureus, and the graft hybrid between the two. It was raised by Jean Louis Adam in 1825. It is a curious and distinct tree, worthy of culture if only for the production of three distinct kinds of flowers on the same plant. Scotch Laburnum. Europe, 1596.

A scene in the guard-house, a popular uprising, the fish-market, the galleys, the wine-shop, the poule au pot of Henri Quatre, are treasure-trove in her eyes. She seizes upon this canaille, washes it clean, and sews her tinsel and spangles over its villainies; purpureus assuitur pannus.

They are always counted as short, two syllables may stand instead of one per liquidum mare sudantes | ditem vexarant. or the unaccented syllable may be altogether omitted, as in the second half of the line "ditem vexarant." In a line of Naevius "Runcus atque Purpureus | filii terras." we have in Purpureus an instance of accent dominating over quantity.

Alow, spreading shrub, with long wiry shoots, clothed with neat trifoliolate leaves, and bearing an abundance of its purple, Pea-shaped flowers. There is a white-flowered form, C. purpureus albus, and another named C. purpureus ratis-bonensis, with pretty yellow flowers, produced on long and slender shoots. C. SCOPARIUS. Yellow Broom.

Phaius it is often spelt Phajus is so closely allied with Calanthe that for hybridizing purposes at least there is no distinction. Dominy raised Ph. irroratus from Ph. grandifolius × Cal. vestita; Seden made the same cross, but, using the variety Cal. v. rubro-occulata, he obtained Ph. purpureus. The success is more interesting because one parent is evergreen, the other, Calanthe, deciduous.

Ovid says that in form the hyacinth resembles a lily, and that its colour is 'purpureus, or deep red. John Martyn, who published in 1755 The Georgicks of Virgil with an English Translation, has an elaborate note on the subject.

All rural sights and sounds and smells are here blended in that ineffable combination which once or twice perhaps in our lives has saluted our young senses, before their perceptions were blunted by alcohol, by lust or ambition, or diluted by the social distractions of great cities." This will not be found to be a purpureus pannus.

I have been drawn to a great length, but Cowley or Waller never had any critical examination before. Gent. Mag. 1785, p.9. Life of Sheffield. BOSWELL. Johnson's Works, vii. 485. See, however, p.11 of this volume, where the same remark is made and Johnson is there speaking of prose. 'Purpureus, late qui splendeat unus et alter Assuitur pannus.

P. chamaebuxus purpureus differs in bearing rich reddish-purple flowers, and is one of the most showy and beautiful of rock plants. They are natives of Europe , and grow best in vegetable mould. An indigenous shrub that grows about a yard high, with pinnate leaves and golden flowers.

Gibbon was never more mistaken than when he argued that all the endless disputing about the purpureus of the ancients might have been evaded by attending to its Greek designation, namely, porphyry-colored: since, said he, porphyry is always of the same color. Not at all.