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plants will come up, and require no other care but to 

 thin them and keep them clean from weeds. 

 I'he third, fourth, and fifth forts are raifed from 

 feeds, which fhould be fown in a dry foil, which is 

 not too rich, either in April or May \ and in J-uly 

 the plants may be planted out into large borders, 

 where they will flower the fpring following ; or they 

 may be Ibwn early in the fpring, for fiowering the 

 fime autumn, but then tliey are not lb hkely to en- 

 dure the winter-, and if the autumn prove bad, tliey 

 will not perfect their feeds. 



Thefe plants grow extremely well upon old walls or 

 buildings, in which places they will endure for feveral 

 years -, whereas thole planted in gardens feldom lall 

 longer than two years, unlefs they are planted in a 

 very poor foil, and the flowers often cropped, and not 

 fuffered to feed ; but any of thefe forts may be con- 

 tinued, by planting cuttings in any of the fummer 

 months, which will eafily take root. 

 Ail the forts of Snap-dragons are pretty ornaments 

 in a garden, and requiring very little culture, are 

 rendered more acceptable. They are all hardy plants, 

 and will refill the cold of our winters extremely well, 

 efpecially if they are planted on a dry, gravelly, or 

 fandy foil •, for when they are planted in a rich moitl 

 foil, they will grow very luxuriant for a time, but 

 are very fubjefl to rot in autumn or v/inter^ and are 

 much more fufceptible of cold, than when they are 

 in a dry, hungry, rocky foil ; fo that thefe plants 

 may be placed amongfl flones, or they will grow in 

 the joints of old walls, where they may be placed lb 

 as to render fome abjefb part of a garden very agree- 

 able, for they will continue in flower feveral months-, 

 and if the feeds are permitted to flied, there will be 

 a continual fupply of young plants, without any 

 trouble. 



Wherever thefe plants are defigned to grow on walls, 

 or on a rocky barren foil, the feeds fliould be fown 

 the beginning of March, where they are defigned to 

 remain j (for if the plants are firft raifed in a better 

 foil, and afterward tranfplanted into thofe places, they 

 feldom fucceed well.) When the plants are come up, 

 tliey will require no other culture but to keep them 

 clear froni weeds-, and where they come up too thick, 

 to pull, fome of them out, fo as to give them room 

 to grow. In July thefe forts will begin to flower, and 

 will continue flowering till the frofl: prevents them. 

 , Thofe plants which grow on walls, will have flrong 

 woody ilems, which will continue two or three years 

 or more, and are rarely hurt by frofl:. 

 A P A R I N E [this plant is fo called, becaufc it is 

 very rough \ it is called Philanthropon, of (piXi-jj, to 

 -love, and av9^i07r(^, man ; becaufe if a perfon walks 

 in uncultivated places, the plant not only applies itfclf 

 to his garments, but it holds them, as if it had a 

 mind to bind man with an amicable band :] Goofe- 

 grafs or Clivers. 



Tlie common fort grows wild almofl: every where, 

 the feeds flicking to the cloaths of people that pafs 

 by where they grow : it is fometimes ufed in medicine, 

 but it is too common a weed to be admitted into a 



garden. 



There are fome other forts of this plant which arc 

 kept in botanic gardens for the fake of variety, which 

 I Ihall beg leave to enumerate here. 



1. ApARiN^iz fem.ine ki^vi. Tourn. Gcofe-grofs ^ivith a 

 fr.:coth fc:.L This is under Gallium in Linnaeus. 



2. Aharink femine coriandri faccharaii. Park. Theat. 



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GocjC'i^rajs c^ 



vith fu:eet feeds like Coricnder. 



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ApARiNi-: pumila fupina, flore ca^ruleo. Tourn. Low 



hr/dln^Cocfc^^refs^ ivith a blue fie 





Tlie two lail 



are included in Linnrcus's genus of A'ailantia. 



All ihelc plants, if they are permitted to featter their 



feeds, will nuintain themfelves in a garden without 



any other culture, than that of preventing otlier weeds 



from over-growing tliem, thefe being all very low 



plants. 



Tiie firil Ibrt grows wild in Cam.bridgefliire, as doth 

 the tliird about Liphceck in Hampflure, where I have 

 gathered ir. 



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A P I 



APETALOUS plants, [of « privative, and r>-.V;:- 

 Aoi', a flower-leaf, Gr.'] are fuch as have no pcuik or 

 flower-leaves. ^ 



APHAC'A. See Lathyrus. 



APICES [of Apex, Lat. atop or point] tliefc ar.:^ 

 called fummits by Vaillant, and are thofe liLde kiicb-: 

 that grov*^ on tlie top of the ilamina in the mid^^iic cjf 

 the flower : which arc generally fuppofed to be a I.ii'.d 

 of male fperm, which when ripe, diflufes iticif ta 

 every part of the flower, and fecundates the o\arivLn 

 aiad renders it fruitful. 



A P I O S. See Glycine. 



A P I U M [Apium is fo called, as fome fay, of Apes, 

 bees, becaufe bees are laid to be delighted very much 



with it,] Parfley. 



The Characters are. 



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It is a plai-it with f.n tmhelliferous flower \ the rays of the 

 great umlel are few^ tut thofe oj the f mailer are 7nav.y\ 

 the involucrtan is in fome fpecies of one leaf^ and in ethers 

 of many •, the petals of the greater umbel are unifcnn ; 

 thefe are rounds enual^ and turn inzua7'd. Each fio-iver has 

 five ftamina^ crowned by rcundifij fummits. Under tbi 

 fiowcr is ftuated the germcn^fiipporting two rcfiexedftyles^ 

 crowned by blunt ftigraa \ the germcn afterward becomes 

 an oval channelled fruity dividing into two parts ^ having 

 two oval feeds channelled on one fide^ and plain on the 



other. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fcction 



. of Linna:us's fifth clafs, entitled Pentandria Digynia, 



the flowers having five ftamina and two llyles. 



The Species are, 



1. Apium {fPetrofelimmi) foliolis caulinis linearibus in- 

 volucellis minutis. Uort. CliiT. io8. Parfiey with very 

 narrow leaves on the fi.ozvcr-ftalks. Apiuni hortenlc vcl 

 petrofelinuni vulgo. C. B. P. Common Parfiey, 



2. Apium {Crifptim) foliis radicalibus amplioribus crifpis 

 " caulinis ovato-multifidis. Parfiey with the loiver leaves 



very bread and curled^ the upper oval^ and cut into m<-ny 

 fegments, Apium vel petrofelinum crifpum. C. B. P, 



153. Curled Parfley. 



3. Apium {Latifolium) foliis radicalibus trifidis, ferratis, 



petiolis longifllmis. Parfiey with under leaves divided 

 into three parts-, which are fawed^ and have very kng 

 foot-fialks, Apium hortenfe latifolium maxima cral- 

 fiflima fuavi & eduli radice. Eoerh. Ind. alt. The 

 large rooted Parfiey. - ■ 



4. Apium (Graveclens) fjliolis caulinis cuneiformibus. 

 Uort. ClilT. 107. Parfiey wiih the lower leaves fafioioncd 

 like a zvedge. Apium paluilre five apium officinarun^ 

 C. B. P. 154. Smallage, 



5. Apium (Dulce) foliis crcftis, petiolis longifllmis fo- 

 liolis quinque lobatis ferratis. Parfiey with upright 

 leaves J having very long foot-fialks^ and the fmaller leaves 

 compofed of five f awed lobes, Apium duke ceteri Ita- 

 lorum. Infl:. R. 11. 305. Upright Celery, 



6. Apium {Rapaceum) foliis patulis, petiolis brevibu^, 

 foliolis quinis ferratis, radice rotundo. Parfiey with 

 fpreading leaves^ having fijort foot-fialks^ the f nailer leaves 

 having five lobes^ and a round root, Apium dulce de- 

 gener, radice rapacea. Jufl*. Celeriack, cr Turnep-rocted 

 Celery. 



7. Apium {Lufttar.icwn) foliis radicalibus tnbolatis, cau- 

 linis quinque-lobatis crenatis. Parfiey with under leaves 

 having three lobes ^ and thefe en the fialks five ^ which ere 

 indented. Apium Lufiranicum maximum, folio trilo- 

 bato flore luteolo. Boerh.. Ind. alt. 



I'he firfl: fort is the connnon Parfley, which is pe- 

 nerally cultivated fur culinary ufe ; and is v/hat tJie 

 College of Phyficians have directed to be ui':l1 in irc- 

 diclne, under the title of Petrofelinuni; for v/hc:i 

 A.pium is preicribed, the Smallage is ahvays in- 

 tended. 

 The fecond fort has cencrallv bc^en fuppok:d to 





be only a variety of the iirll:, but from many years 

 trial I have alv/ays found, that if the feeds are carcIuJi^^ 

 faved from plants of tlie curled-leaved ParUcy, i^: 

 will conftantly produce the fame ; but th^-rc a''e 

 few perfons who will be at tlie trouble to five t!:c 

 feeds fo carefully, as not to luve fome of tlie common 



fort mixed with it i for v/hen feeds are bought at the 



