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 When the plants advance in height, their ftems and 



■ branches muft be fupported, otherwife they wiU trail 



■ upon the ground. In iuminer they muft be placed 

 . in the open air^ with Myrtles and other hardy grcen- 



houfe plants •, and in winter the plants may be treated 

 in the lame manner as thofe^ but muft have little water 

 ; in winter. This plant has endured the cold of our or- 

 dinary winters, wlicn planted near a fouth-wcft wall 

 ' without covering, but in fevere winteri they are always 

 '' deftroyed.'^' ^;.v/ . .^; ■ {'-, ''...v- '::>'V 



The fecond fort is a native of the fame country as 

 the firft ; this hath very fleftder ligneous ftalks,%hich 

 muft be fupported, otherwife they will fall to, the 

 ground. iThefe fend out (lender branches on every 

 ' ftde, which are clofely garnilhed with trifoliate leaves 

 ' ftanding clofe to the branches j the middle lobes of 

 thefe are much larger than the two fide, and are in- 

 dented in three parts. The flowers of this come out 

 from the bofom' of the leaves,^ '"Raving very fhbrt 

 ■- foot-ftalks, and are Ihaped like thofe of the firft, but 

 iare fmallerj thefe appear in July and Auguft. Of 

 this fort we have only male plants in the Englilh 

 '-gardens, which can only be propagated by layers; 

 , -and as thefe are two years before they take root, the 

 i. J)lants are at prefent very rare in England. This fort 

 requires the fame "management as the firft, and is 

 equally hardy, but muft not be over watered in -y^inter. 

 -^The leaves of this fort continue green all the year, 

 ^v-and being Tingularly ffiapeHj'thiJy make a variety in 



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■ the green -houfe during the winter feafon 

 '-iTbc third fort rifes with a weak ftirubby ftalk about 



four feet high, fending out lateral branches, which 

 -' kre^'cov'ered with a whitifh bark, and are garnilhed 



- with leaves, placed in clufters without order ; thefe 

 ' iare ftiff^, of the confiftence and colour of the Butchers 



■ BfoJmj but are narrower, and run out to a longer 

 i point. Between thefe clufters of leaves the flowers 



come out in loofe bunches, thefe have a great number 

 ^ of yellowilh ftamina, included in a three-leaved em- 

 . palement. We have only the male plant of this fort, 



which is very difficult to propagate, fo is very rare 



- ^in Europe at prefent; 



This plant is tenderer than either of the former forts, 

 fo ftiould be placed in a 'warm green-houfe in 

 winter, and during that feafon, they muft h^e but 

 little water. ' In the fumnSer they may be expofed to 

 ^ the open air in a ftieltered fituatlon, biit they ftiould 

 not remain abroad too late in the autumn ; for if there 

 /hould be much rain at that feafon, it would endanger 



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thefe plants if they are expofed to it. 

 CLIMATE [of KxiiAXj Gr, an inclination,] is a 

 part of the furface of the earth bounded by two circles 

 parallel to the equator ; fo that the longeft day in 

 that parallel, neareft to the pole, exceeds the longeft 

 day in that parallel neareft to the equator by fome 



' certain fpace of time, viz. half an hour, till you come 

 to places fituate nearly under the ardlic circle ; and 



■ a whole hour, or even feveral days when you go be- 

 yond it. 





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The antient Greek geographers reckoned only feven 

 climates from the equator towards the north pole, and 

 denominated them from fome noted place, through 

 • which the middle parallel of the climate paflTedi but 

 the "moderns reckon up twenty-four. ■.. 

 The beginning of the climate is the parallel circle, 



wherein the day is the ftiorteft. . : . 



The end of the climate is that wherein the day is the 



' longeft. ^ 



, The climates therefore are reckoned from the equa- 



- tor to the pole \ and are fo many bands or zones, 



• terminated by lines parallel to the equator ; though 



in ftriftnefs there are feveral climates in the breadth 



of one zone. ^ 



Each climate only differs from its contiguous ones, in 

 that the longeft day infummer is longer or fliorterby 

 half an hour in one place than the other. 

 As the climates commence from the equator, the 

 firft climate at its beginning has its longeft day pre- 



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the pokr 



cifeiy twelve houi-s long-, at its end'a-cv^lv^ hoitfj 



anda half : the fecond, which begins where ilu- ar^< 

 ends, viz. at twelve hours and a half, ends 

 thirteen' hours : and fo of the reft, as far 

 circles.' /i''^ '^ ■' ^ *» y •>\>''. - . -t 



Here what geographers call hour-climates terminate 

 and month-climates commence. ^ 

 As an hour-climate is a fpace comprifed between two 

 parallels of the equator, in the firft of which the 

 longeft day exceeds that in the latter by half an hour; 

 fo the month-climate. is a fpace between two circles 



f)arallel to the polar circles, whofe longeft day is 

 onger'or ftiorter than that of its contiguous one by'a 



. month, or thirty days^ >;:::?:•: . ;- ' - ;;;;;; ■__ 

 The antients, who confined the clim.ates to what they 

 imagined the habitable part of the earth, only allowed 

 of leven, ajs had been faid: the firft they made to 

 ; i pafs through Meroe, fbe.f^cond through Sienna, the- 

 third through Alexandria, the fourth through Rhodes, 

 the fifth through Rome, the fixth through Pontus^ 

 , and the' feventh through the mouth of tlie Borylt- 

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The moderns, who have failed farther towards the 

 1 poles, make thirty clirnates on each fide -, and becaufe 

 ♦ the obliquity of the fphere makes a little difference 

 ; in the length of the longeft day, forne pf them make 

 the difference of the climate but a quarter of an hour 

 ; inftead of half anhour. ' ,:: --'^ :/>;■? ivs^ 



The term climate is vulgarly beftowed on any coun- 

 .;try or region differing from another, either in rcfpeft 

 of the feafons, the quality of the foil, or even the 

 I ' manners of the inhabitants, without any regard to the 

 ■ - length of the longeft day. - ' , ■-■'-- i 

 CLINOPODIUM. Lin. Gen. Plant. 644. Tourn, 

 ; Inft. R. H. 194. tab. 92. Field Bafil. . , 

 : T 'The Charactei^s are, ->i 

 ^ It hath' an involucrum cut into many parts, is the length 

 ■ of the empalemnty upon which the whorls Jit, "The an- 

 palement is of one. leaf with .a 'cylindrical tuie^ which is 

 divided into two lips-, the upper Jip is broad, trifid, acute, 

 and reflexed ', the under lip is cut into two narrow [eg- 

 meitts, which turn inward* ■ deflower is of the lip kind, 

 with a fhort tube enlarging to the mouth ; the upper lip is 

 ereEt, concave, and indented at the top, which is oblufe , 

 the under lip is trifid and obtufe, the middle fegment being 

 broad and indented. It hath four ftamina under the upper 

 Up, two of which are fhort er than the other, ^terminatd 

 by roundtjh fummits ; in the center is Jituated the qua- 

 dripartite germen, fupporting afiender ftyle the length of 

 the ftamina, crowned by a Jingle compreffed ftigma. The 

 germen afterward become four oval feeds Jhut up in the 

 empalement, ; . 



This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftion of 

 Linnasus's fourteenth clafs, intitled Didynamia Gyra- 

 nofpermia. The flowers of this clafs and feftion. 



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ceeded by four naked feeds. 

 ■ The Species are, ■ . 



ftamina. 



1. Clinopodium: {Vulgare) capitulis fubrotundiy, hif- 

 ' pidis, brafteis fetaceis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 587. Field 



, Baftl with roundift} prickly heads, and briftly braufea, Cli- 

 nopodium Origano fimile^ elatius, majore llore. C. 

 B. P. 225. Common Englijlo Field BafiL 



2. CLmopoDiiTM (Incanum) foliis fubtus tonientofis, 

 verticillis explanatis, bradteis lanceolatis. Lin. Sp. 



i Plant. 588. Field Bajil with leaves which are woolly on 

 the ' under fide, broad plain whorls, and fpear-fiapd 

 hra^ea, Clinopodium menthse folio incanum, & 

 ; odoratum. Hort. Elth. 87. 



3. Clinopodium {Rugofum) foliis rugofis, capitulis a>r- 

 ' • illaribus, pedunculatis, explanatis, radiatis. Lin. Sp. 



:. 588. Field Bajtl with rough leaves, plain hecih 

 growing on the fides of the ftalks^ vohich have foot Jldis, 

 and are radiated, Clinopodium rugofum, capitulis 

 fcabiofas. Hort. Elth. 88. 



4. Clinopodium {Humile) humile ramofum, foliis ru- 

 gofioribus, capitulis explanatis. Low brafiching Ftdi 

 Bafilwith rougher leaves, and plain heads, Clinopodium 



Americanum humile, foliis rugofioribus. Dale, , 



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