ftalk ', they are of a flefh colour, and Iprcr.d open 



like thole of the Auricula. It flowers in April, but doth 

 not produce leeds in the gardens, for this plant is 

 with izreat difficulty kept in a garden. The only 

 method by which I could ever prelerve it, has been 

 by planting the plants in pots, and placing them in 

 a fliady fituation, where they were duly watered in 

 dry weather -, in this place they conftantly remained 

 both fummer and winter, for the cord will not dellroy 

 them ■, the earth for this plant fhould be light, and 

 not too rich, for dung is very injurious to it. As 

 this very rarely produces any feeds in England, the 

 only method to propagate it is, by parting the roots 

 in the fame manner as is praftifed for Auriculas •, the 

 befl time for this is about Michaelmas, foon after 



which the leaves decay. 



The fecond fort is very like the firft, but the flowers 



are much lefs, and their empalements are larger ; this 



rows naturally in Siberia, but is with great difficulty 



ept in a garden. 

 CORYLUS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 953. Tourn. Inft. R. 

 H. 581. [fo called from Ko^vxQ^, Gr. a Hazel, or 

 Filbert-tree. It is alfo called Avellana, from Avella, 

 a town in Campania, where it grew in great plenty.] 

 The Hazel, or Nut-tree. 

 The Characters are, 

 It bath male and female fiowers growing at remote dif- 

 tances on the fame tree. "The male flowers are 'produced 

 in long fcaly katkinSy each fcale including a Jingle flower^ 



but never have found them var>' from one t6 the 

 other, though they have altered in the fize and co- 

 lour of their fruit, from the forts which were fown i 

 but as the ihrubs of this grow more ere^: than thofe 

 of the other, and the ftipulae are diff'erent in their 

 ihape, fo I have enumerated it as a dillinft fort ; of 

 this there are the red and white Filberts, both which 

 are fo well known, as to need no defcription. 

 The third fort grows naturally near Conftantinoole j 

 the nuts of this are large, roundilh, and in fhape*like 

 thofe of the common Hazel, but are more than twice 

 their fize. The cups in which the nuts grow are 

 very large, fo as almoft to cover the nut, and is deeply 

 cut at the brim. This fort is not common in England, 

 but I take thofe large nuts which are annually im- 

 ported from Barcelona in Spain, to be of the fame 

 kind, the nuts being fo alike, as not to be diftin- 

 guiflied when out of ^their cups ; and thofe of the 

 Spanifli fort come over naked, fo I cannot with cer- 

 tainty fay how they eflentially diff^er. 

 All thefe forts may be propagated by fowing their 

 nuts in February -, which, in order to preferve them 

 good, ffiould be kept in fand in a moift cellar, where 

 the vermin cannot come at rhem to deflroy them 

 nor Ihould the external air be excluded from them, 

 which would occafion their growing mouldy. 

 The manner of fowing the feeds being well known 

 to every one, I need not here mention it, cfpecially 

 fince it is not the fureft way to obtain the forts dc 



having no petals^ but eight Jhort ftamina fafiened to the \ fired; for they feldom prove fo good as the nuts 

 - fiie of the fcaky and terminated fy oblong ere£l fummits.^ J which were fown, or at leaft not one in four of them 



^he female flowers are included in the future bud^ fitting 

 lofe to the branches \ thefe have a thick two-leaved peri- 



antbium, torn on the border^ fitting under the flower 



when it is fmally but afterward is enlarged to the fize of 



the fruit % it hath no petals but a fmall round ger men 



occupies the center ^ fupporting two briflly coloured flyles^ 



which are longer than the empalement^ crowned by two 

 Jingle fiigmas. The germen afterward becomes an oval 



nuty fhaved at the bafe^ and comprejfed at the top^ ending 



in a point. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the eighth feftion 



ofLinnaeus's twenty-firft clafs, intitled Monoecia Po- 



lyandria, from there being male and female flowers 



on the fame plant, and the male flowers having many fuch as have a naked flower, as the Lavender Cottoa 



and Tanfey, and alfo thofe that are akin to them, as 



will ; and the method of propagating them by layers 

 being not only the fureft, but alfo moft expeditious, 

 is ^what I would recommend to every one who 

 would cultivate thefe trees for the fake of their fruits. 

 ORYMBIFEROUS PLANTS are fuch as 

 have a compound difcous flower, but their i^td^ 

 have no down adhering to them. The name is takea 

 from the manner of bearing its flowers in clufters, 

 and fpreading round in the form of an umbrella. 0£ 



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The Species are, , 



i. CoRYLus {AvellaniC) ftipulis ovatis obtufis. Hort. 

 Cliff. 448. 'Hazel Nut with oval blunt ftipuUe. Cory- 

 lus Sylveftris. C. B. P. 418. Wild Hazel Nut. 



2. CoRYLus {Maxima) ftipulis oblongis, obtufis, ramis* 

 ereftioribus. Hazel with oblong blunt Jlipul^y and the 

 branches growing more ere£i. Corylus fativa frud:u ob- [ f^g' 



Scabious, Teafel, Carduus, &C4 

 ORYMBIUM. 



The Characters are. 



fmall leaves are ere£i and cloft 



f two leaves y having fiU 



^tfidi 



longo. C. B. P. 418. The Filbert. 



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The flower has one pete 

 fhort tube^ cut into fl' 



3. GoRYLus (Colurna) ftipulis linearibus acutis, Hort. [ fegments at the brim, which fpread open ; it hath fi 



Cliff. 448^^ Hazel with narrow acute ft ipuU. Corylus 



• ■ Byzantina. H. L> 191. 'Byzantine Nut. . 



• The firft of thefe trees is common in many woods in 

 ' England, from whence the fruit is gathered in plenty, 



- and brought to the London markets by the country 

 : people. This tree is feldom planted in gardens (ex- 



- cept by perfbns curious in colledions of trees and 

 ■ Ihrubs 5) it delights to grow on a moift ftrong Yoil, 

 ' and may be plentifully increafed by fuckers from the 



old plants, or by laying down their brancTies, which, 



'in one year's time, will take fufficieht root for tranf- 



'- planting; and thefe will be much handfonhe'f anU better 



rooted plants than fuckers, and will greatly outgrow 



them, efpecially while young. 



There is a variety of this with fruit growing in great 

 clufters at the end of the branches, which is diftin- 

 guilhed by the title of Clufter Nut •, but as this is 

 fuppofed to be only a variety, which accidentally 

 came from the other, I have not diftinguifhed it -, 

 however, this may be continued by layers, fo the kind 

 may always be preferved. 



The fecond fort is by many fuppofed 10 be onlj^ a fe- 



minal variety from the firft, which hath been im- 



^ proved by culture; but this is very doubtful, for I 



^ have feverai times propagated both from the nuts. 



£1 ftamina fttt, 

 fummits, fh 



fituated 



fort of 



torn of the petal, fupporting afingle ereol Jlyle 

 if the petal, terminated by a bifid oblong ftig 

 men afterward becomes an oblong feed, havi) 



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nogamia, the flower having five ftamma which joia 

 by their fummits, and is fucceeded by one feed. 

 ,... .We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 

 ORYMBIUM {Africanum). Hort. Cliff. 494. African Co- 

 rymbium. Bupleurifolia femine pappofo, valerianoidea 

 umbellata, cauliculi fcabro. Pluk. Aim. 73. 

 This plant grows naturally at the Cape of Good 

 Hope 5 it rifes with an ered rough ftalk about a 

 foot high, with a fingle leaf at each joint, which half 

 embrace the ftalk with their bafe. The leaves are 

 long, narrow, and triangular, and have a downy fub- 

 ftance intermixed with them at their bafe •, the upper 

 part of the ftalk divides into feverai foot-ftalks^ 

 which are terminated by purple flowers of one petal; 

 cut into five parts at the brim, each being fucceeded 



by an oblong feed 



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