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I'hat fort; with green fruit, if fufTcvcd to ripen \Vcil, 

 is o£ an Olive 00^9.111: i but there are foijiepprfpnf ^ho 

 cut tl^em before th^y are ripe, when they are not fit 

 to be eaten, for no other reafon but to Have them 

 green : and although maiiy perfons have much reconl- 

 ipended this fort for its excellent flavour, yet I think 

 the Sugar-loaf fort is much to be preferred to it. 

 This Sugar-loaf fort is eafily diftinguilhed from all 

 the other, by its leaves having purple ftripes on their 

 infide the whole length. The fruit is of a p^ler co- 

 lour than the ot;hers "s^'hen ripe, inclining to a ftraw 

 colour. This fort was brought from Brafd to Ja- 

 maica, where it is eftcemed far beyond the other 



' kinds. ." 



The next in goodnefs to this, is what the inhabitants 



of the iflands in America call the Montferrat Pine -, 



the leaves of this are of a dark brown, inclining to 



purple on their infide ; the protuberances of the fruit 



are longer and fl;itter than thofe of the common fqrt. 



I raifed feveral plants of this fort from feeds which 



I received from the ifland of St. Thomas, where this 



fruit is in greater perfedlion than in any of the Britifli 



iflands. * ■ . ■ , /■ 



As fome of the fruit produce feeds in England, when 



the greater number have no appearance of any, I 

 doubt not whether there are not fome with male, and 

 ethers wuth hermaphrodite flowers •, becaufe thofe 

 fruit which have feeds, are remarkably different from 

 the others, when cut through the cells in which the 

 feeds are lodged, lying nearer to the center of the 

 fruit than the abortive cells, which are chiefly clofc 

 to the rind •, but hot having diftinguiflied this dif- 

 ference till the fruit was cut, I had no opportunity of 



examining their flowers. . '. 



I have continued this title of Ananas toxhe genus, 

 being the mofl: generally known and ufed, left by al- 

 tering it, the practical gardeners fliould be rather con- 

 .fufed than inftrudted :. and I was the rather inclined 

 to this, as Dr. Linnaeus has miftaken the chara6ters 

 of the diree genera, which he has joined in one. The 

 different varieties are alfo enumerated, for die fake 



of thofe who cultivate the fruit, though they arp not 

 diftinft fpecies, but vary in their fliape, colour, and 

 flavour, the fame as other fruits. . Therefore, as this 

 work is intended to inftruft the practical gardener, 

 , the mentioning thefe varieties is more excufablp here, 

 than in thofe books which are only intended for the 

 improvement of botany. ■..-■.. - . ,,* ; 



ANAPODOPHYLLON. See Podophyllum. 



ANASTATIC A, Rofe of Jericho. ^ . . 



The Characters are. 



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// bath a four leaved empalement^ which falls off*, the 

 ^ flower has four petals placed crojjwife^ which fpread open^ 

 wbofe tails are the length of the tube of the empalement^ 

 mid fix awl-fhaped ftamina^ two of which are fljcrter than 

 the other four^ crowned with roundifJj fumraitSy and a 

 fmall bifid germen^ fuppor ting an awl-fnapcd ftyk the length 

 of the ftayninay and is permanent^ croz^n/d by a headed 

 fummit. The germen after-ward becomes a fhort bilocular 

 pod^ having an awl-fhaped partition placed obliquely to the 

 pod^ and is longer. 

 . We have but one Species of this genus in the Eng- 



lifli gardens, viz. . 



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ANASTATfcA {Hierocwitica) foliis obtufis, fpicis axillari- 

 bus breviffimis, filicuUs ungulatis fpinofis, Lin. Sp. 

 895. Rofe of Jericho with obtufe leaves^ fhort fpikes of 

 ficwers at the wings of the Jialks^ and prickly pods. _> . > 



This plant grows naturally in Paleftine and Cairo, in 

 fandy places near the fca. The ftalks are ligneous 

 . though the plant is annual ^ it rifes five or fix inches 

 high, dividing into many irregular branches ^ the 

 flowers which are fmall and white, are difpofed in 

 fhort fpikes at the wings of the italks, and have little 

 beauty ; thefe are fucceeded by ftiort prickly pods, 

 having two cells, in each of which are two feeds. 

 It is preferved in .botanic gardens for the variety, and 

 in fome curious gardens for the oddncfs of the plant, 

 which, if taken up before it is witliered, and preferved 

 entire in a dry room, may be long preferved ; and 

 ;ifter being many years kept in this fituation, if the 



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. root is placed in a glafs of water a few hours, the buds 

 of flowers will fwell, open, and appear, ^s if newly 

 taken out of the ground, to the great furprife of moil 

 people. . 



The plant is annual, fo can only be propagated by 

 feeds, which rarely ripen in England, unlefs the feeds 

 are fown upon a hot-bed in the fpring, and the plants 

 afterward put into pots, which ftiould be plunged 

 into another hot-bed to bring tliem forward ; for al- 

 though the feeds will come up in die full ground 

 where the foil is dry, yet the plants rarely rif? \o any 

 fize, nor do they perfedt feeds unlefs the fummer is 

 very hot and dry : but if the plants are kept in a 

 frame, giving them free air in warm weather, they 

 will flower in June, and the feeds will rip^n ip Sep- 

 tember. , . 



ANATOMY ['Ai/aV^, of 'AmTif^vui, Gr. to difl:ecl], 



a difle£lion. ^ ' ,..- 



Anatomy of plants is a cutting, dividing, or fepar^t- 

 ing the parts or members of plants, in order to di/- 

 cover the fize, form, ftrufture, and ufes of their f^- 



, veral veflels, for the better promoting their culture. • 

 'Anatomifts have obferved a great fimilitude betwixt 

 the mechanic frame of plants and animals : the parts 

 of plants feeming to bear a conftant analogy to thofe 

 of animals •, and the oeconomy, both vegetable ^d 



. animal, feem to be formed on the fame model. 

 The parts of a plant are the root, the v/ood, the bark, 

 and the pith. . • ..-, V . 



f. The roots. of the plants are fpongeQu§ bodks, 

 whofe parts are difpofed for the eaiy ^dmitt^Qce pf 

 certain humid particles, which are prepared in the 



-Aground. The quality of the root is found much to 

 -depend upon tl\e fize of its veflTels a;id pores. 

 Monfieur Renaume fuppofes the root of a plant to do 

 the ofilce of all the parts In the abdomen of animals, 



i .which ferve to nutrition, ^§ the fl;pmaph> ini:efl:ines, 



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' Dr. Boerhaave confiders the roots of plants to be 

 '' , compofed of a number of abforbent veflels, which af e 



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analogous to dielafteals in anima}s.- - 

 T];e root, according to Dr. Van Royen, is t\\^t pa^-t 

 of the plant by which the nutriment is taken in, or 

 that by which the aliment is attracted, as Theophraf- 

 tus has defined it : but ii is not allthat p^rt, which is 

 committed to the earth, to be nouriflied by the mat- 

 ter which is about it, which is properly to b.e c.ajled 

 the trunk of the root ^ this is to be referred rather %o 

 the fl:alk or fl:em, than to the root, in that it confifts 

 of the fame implicated kinds of veflels ; but that part 

 which is by its furface contiguous to the exteriqr ma- 

 trix, which, being perforated with infinite little 

 mouths, promotes the received mpifUircs, that tliey 

 may be afterwards carried, by velTeis not unj[ilj^ .to 

 lafteal onesj into the very body of the plant j this i? 

 properly to be called the root. 

 Wliich definition, although it iijay feem top ftrift, 

 i$ the mofl: general, and .applicable to §,11 plants j fpr 

 it agrees as well with them which have no root, as 

 the vulgar qpinion i.s, as to thofe which have a mani- 

 fefl: root i of the fgrmer kind tfier? are but y.ery few 

 plants, but of the latter a great many. 

 As to thofe that want a manifefl; root, the fuperficijes 

 of^ them is found to be perforated on all fides with 

 yery fmall holes, by which they t^ke in their nutri- 

 ment, as in the Porno Aurantio, called Neptuni, or 

 Pila Marina by fifliermen, and many other fubmarine 



plants; and in thefe the whole fupcrficies fervcs for 

 roots, as is plainly feen in fome fl;pny plants that 

 grow under the fea, and may be in fome fort proved 

 to be deduced from the analogy of animals ; for t]i,efe 

 being become fid generis, take in aliment, not only 

 by the mouth, but glfo the wi¥>le furfa(:e, .cxpofed to 



the moifl: air, feems to ferve to the farne defign. Put 

 although thefe fubmarlne bodies have, by moft natu- 

 ralifts, been ranged with vegetables ; yet, by later 

 difcoveries, many pf them have been fognd to confifl 

 of beds of infedts, inclofed in jjnall cavities of thefe 



incrufl:ed bodies, therefore fliould radier be ranged 

 with minerals. 



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