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dijjj gcrmen with three Jhbri dhmcaled flylc. 

 ma. The capfuk hath^ three cells, each co 



torn Jlignia. The i 

 ing one rctindijlo feed, ' _ ■ , 



This genus of plants, is ranged by Dr. Linnasus, in 

 " the twelfth feftion of his twenty-fecond clafs, which 

 includes thofe wliich have male flowers on diftin£t 

 plants from tlic female, whofeftaminajoinat theirbafc. 



The Species arc^ 

 I. Adelia {Sernardia) foliis oblongis tomcntofis ferra- 

 tis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 1473. Adelia with oblong, woolly, 



fawed leaves. " - ". 



i, Adelia {Riclnella) foliis obovatis integerrimis. Lin. 



Sp. Plant. 1473. Adelia, with oval entire leaves. ^ - 

 3. Adelia [Acidoton) ramis flexuofis, fpinis gemmaceis. 



Amoen. Acad. 5. 411. Adelia with flexible branches 



and prickly gems. ■ ■ 



Thcfe plants grow naturally in the idand of Jamaica, 

 and are near a-kin to the Ricinus, or Croton, but 

 the male flowers growing upon different plants from 

 the female, has occafioned theii- being ranged in a 

 diff'erent clafs. Dr. Houfl:oun confl:ituted a genus of 

 them by the title of Bernardia, in honour to Dr. Ber- 

 nard de Juffieu, demonftrator of plants in the royal 

 garden at Paris ^ but Dr. Linnceus has fixed the title 

 of Adelia to them. ' The plants are propagated by 

 feeds, when thefe can be procured from the countries 

 where they grow, for they do riot produce good feeds 



The feeds muft be fown upon a hot- 

 bed iiTthe foring, and when the plants are fit to re- 

 move, they mould be each tranfplanted into a feparate 

 fmall pot, filled with light earth, and plunged into a 

 hot-bed of tan, treating them in the fame manner as 

 is hereafter directed for Croton. In the autumn, the 

 pots fhould be plunged into the tan-bed in the ftove, 

 where, if they are kept in a temperate heat in winter, 

 ind riot over-watered during that feafon, the plants 

 may be preferved, and the fummer following will pro- 

 duce flowers i but as thefe have little beauty, the 

 plants at-e feldom propagated except in botanic 



gardens, 

 ADENANTHERA. Prod. Leyd. 452. Baftard 



Flower-fferice. -- '■ ^ ' '^ :: ■ .'■ \\ :? 





in England, 



The Characters are, "" ' /^ ' ' -■'^," 

 7'he e?npalement of the flower is of one leaf flightly cut 

 into flve at the top { the flower is of the belUfloaped kind, 

 and is compofed of five petals, which are reflexed and con- 

 cave on their under fide. In the center isfttiiated an oblong 

 germen, fttpporting a ftyle crowned with afingle ftigma \ 

 this is attended by ten ere£f ftamina of the fame length, 

 which arc crowned with roundifh fummits \ after the flower 

 if paft, the germen becomes a lonF compreffed pod, con- 

 taining many convex fmooth feeds, paced at a difiancefrom 



each other. .■ - * i •. ^ ■ ' ■ ' 



Dr. Linfinsus ranges this genus of plants in the firft 

 fedion of his tenth clafs, entitled Decandria mono- 

 gynia, the flowers having ten flamina and one ger- 

 men \ but he feparates it from the Poinciana, becaxife 

 the petals of the flower are equal, and the empale- 

 ment is of one leaf^ wfiereas the Poinciana hath a five 

 leaved empalement^ and the petals are unequal.^'' 

 Adenanthera foliis decompofitis. Prod. Leyd. 462. 

 Baftard Flower fence with decompounded leaves. ' 

 There is another fpecies,. or at leafl: a variety of this 

 kind, widi fcarlet feeds, which is "at prefent 'rare' in 



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^feem to be fmall, and of little beauty -, the fine branch- 

 incr leaves of the plant, hov/ever, make a very hand- 

 fome? appearance in the ftove. The feeds are of a 

 Ihining black colour, and are fomewhat larger than 

 thofe of the great Lentil, and nearly of the fame fliape. 

 This plant muft be raifed on a hot-bed, and after- 

 wards placed in the bark-ftove with other tender 



exotics. ' ^ 



AD H AT O DA; See Just'^cia. . 



A D I A N T H U M, i. e. Maidenhair. 

 The Characters are, 

 f his genus is diftinguifloed from the other capilhiy plants 

 by the fruElification, being confufedly joined in oval fpots^ 

 and the points of the leaves refiexed. 



The Species are, 



1. Adianthum {Capillus Veneris) iTond\h\x^ diQCOTTiY^o^i-- 



tis foliis alternis pinnis cuneiformibus lobatis pedi- 

 cellatis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 1096. The true Maidenhair. 



Adianthum foliis Coriandri. C. B. P._ 35^- , . 



2. Adianthum {Pedatum) frondibus pedata foliolis pin- 

 natis pinnis antice gibbis incifis fru£lificantibus. Lin. 



' Sp. Plant. 1095. American Maidenhair. Adianthum 

 Americanum. Corn. Canad. 7. tab. 6. 



3. Adianthum {"Trapeziforme) frondibus fupradecom- 

 pofitis foliolis alternis, pinnis rhombeis incifis utrinque 



; fruftificationibus. Lin. Sp. Plant., 1097. The largeft 

 . black Amaican Maidenhair with branchi?ig ftalks, and 



leaves fhaped like the figure of a rhombus. 

 ' There are many^fpecies of this genus, which are 

 natives of the Eaft and Weft-Indies, greathy dif- 

 fering in fize and form from each other. I have up- 

 wards of thirty diftinft fpecies in my collection of 

 dried plants, which to enumerate in, this place, would 

 be fuperfluous, as they have not been introduced into 

 the Englifli gardens. The three forts here mention- 

 ed, are all that I have feen growing in England. 

 The firft fort is the true Maidenhair, which is directed 

 to be ufed in metiicine -, but as it does not grow natu- 

 rally in England, fo the Trichomanes is ufually fub- 

 fticuted for it, which grows in great plenty in feveral 

 parts of England, The other is a native of the fouth 

 of France, Italy, and tlie Levant, froir^ v/hence I 

 fiave received the plants. ' It ufually grows out of the 

 joints of walls, and the fiflTures of rocks, fo that who- 

 ever is inclinable to keep "this plant in their gardens, 

 ftiould plant it in pots filled with gravel and lime 

 rubbilh, in which it v/ill thrive much better than in 

 good earth ; but the pots muft be flieltered under a 

 frame in winter, otherwife the plants are often killed 



by the froft. ' . ■ , 



The fecond fort is often preferved in gardens for the 



fake of vane'ty -, this may be preferved in pots, and 

 treated in the fame manner as the former ; for altho' 

 • it will live through the winter in the open air in mode- 

 rate feafons, yet in fevcre froft it is fonietimes de- 

 ftroyed. This grows 'naturally in Canada in fuch 

 quantities, that the French fend it from thence in 

 package for other good?^, and the apothecaries at Paris 

 ufe it for the Maidenhair, in all'ti^ircompofitions in 

 v/hich that is orfei^ed.' ' ■ " ■•■?■;.■ 



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The third fprt grows naturally in very warm coun- 

 tries -, I received it from Jamaica in a tub of earth 

 among otTier plants. This fort will not thrive in Eng- 

 ■ land, unlefs it be' preferved in a ft'ove, where its fiiin- 

 this country:. I received the feeds of it from India, I ing black ftalks and odd fhaped leaves will affbrd 

 from which many plants have been raifed, but they 

 . are of very ftow growth in England. ■ --_■'•' 

 The fort here mendoned grdv/s to a very lai-ge free 

 m its native country, but it is fo tender as to require 

 a ftove to preferve it through the winter in England, 

 fo "that there are no large plants in the Englifti gar- 

 ■' dens at prefent ^ the young plants which are notiViofe 

 than two feet high, have large branching leaves, com- 



pofed of many equal divifions, garniftied with fmall 

 oval leaves, which are placed alternately on the mid- 

 rib, and are of a bright green colour. The ftems of 

 the plants are woody, the bark of a brown colour, and 

 the leaves continue all the year; but I have not feen 

 any flowers produced in England as yet, but by fome 

 dried famples wliich were Brought from India, they 



an agreeable variety among other exotic plants. 

 ADNATA, ADNESCENTIA, are thofe ofi=^- 



■ fefi, or fmall bulbs, which are produced frotn the 

 roots of bulbous plants, and are clofely connefted to 

 the parent root ; of this fore is the Narcifilis, Amaryl- 

 lis, Pancratium, &c. " 



A D O N I D I S H O R T I, i.e.. die gardens of Ado- 

 nis, are plants, flowers, &c. in pots or cafes, fet ot^ 



the outfide of windows, in balconies, &c. 

 ADONIS, or FLOS AD ONI S, Bird's-eye, or 



Pheafant's-eye. . . ': - 



The Characters are, ■ ' ■"" ■ 



The emp'alsment of the fl.ower is compofed of flve concave, 

 obtufe, coloured leaves which fall off*, the flower is com- 

 pofed in fome fpecies of flve petals ^ and in others of twelve 



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