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4re heart-ihaped, and furround the pedicle with their 

 bafc. The flowers are yellow, and appear in June. 

 The feeds ripen in Auguft-, which, if permitted to 

 fcatter, the plants will come up, and require no other 

 care but to keep them clean from weeds ; this muft 

 havealhady fituation. 



The thirtieth fort grows naturally at La Vera Cruz, 

 from whence the late Dr. Houftoun fent me the feeds j 

 this is an annual plant, which rifes from two to 

 fhree feet high. The leaves of thefe are fometimes 

 narrow and entire, at other times oval, and divided in 

 the middle, almoft to the midrib, in fhape of a fiddle -, 

 they alfo vary in their colour, fome being inclinable 

 to purple, others of a light green ; they are fawed on 

 their edges, and (land upon fhort foot-ftalks. The 

 flowers are produced in fmall umbels at the end of 

 the branches ; they are of a greenifh white, and are 

 fucceeded by fmall round caplules with three cells. 

 The thirty-firft fort grows naturally in moft of the 

 iflands in the Weft-Indies ; this is an annual plant, 

 which rifes with a branching ftalk about two feet 

 high, garniflied with oblong, oval, fmooth leaves, 

 which are fawed on the edges. The flowers grow 

 in fmall umbels at the foot-ftalks of the leaves, 

 gathered into clofe bunches ; thefe are white, and 

 are fucceeded by fmall round capfules, iriclofmg three 

 feeds. 



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The feeds of the thirty-fecond fort were fent me 

 from La Vera Cruz, by the late Dr. Houftoun j this 



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about a foot high, dividing into a great nun^ber of 

 branches, which fpread very wide on every fide, 

 garniflied with roundifh, lieart-fliaped leaves, which 

 are entire, ftanding upon pretty long foot-ftalks. The 

 flowers come out fingly from the divifions of the 

 ftalk ; they are fmall, and of an herbaceous colour, 

 and are fucceeded by finall round capfules, contain- 

 ing three feeds; 



The laft three forts are annual ; the feeds of thefe muft 

 be fovvn upon a hot-bed in the ipring, and when the 

 plants are fit'to remove, they fliould be each planted 

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

 the hot-bed again, and muft afterward be treated in 

 the fame manner as other tender annual plants from 

 warm countries. 

 EUPHRASIA. Eyebright. 



This is a medicinal plant, which grows naturally in 

 the fields and commons in moft parts of England, al- 



ways among grafs, heath, furz, or fome other cover, 

 and will not grow when thefe are cleared from about 

 it ; nor will the feeds grow v/hen they are fown in a 

 garden •, for which reafon I Ihall not trouble the reader 

 with a defcription, or any farther account of it^ than 

 that the herb-women fupply the markets with it in 



plenty from the fields. 



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pulling or peeling off the outward bark of trees. 

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rournefort ranges this genus of plants in the fecond 

 legion of his tenth ckfs, which includes the herbs 

 ^".b^butterfly flower, whofe pointal turns to a long 

 pod With one cell. This is in the third fedion of 

 i-jinnaeus's feventeenth clafs, in which he places thofe 

 ' plants whofe flowers have ten (lamina, joined in two 

 l^odies ; and he joins it to his genus of Vicia, fo he 

 makes only a fpecific difference between them ; but as 

 the Bean hath a comprefled leathery pod and kidney- 

 ihaped feeds, and the Vetch a fwellingpod with i-ound 

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do not effentially differ from each other ;'fo I fhall 

 not enumerate them as diftinft Ipccics, nor joirt 

 thefe to the Horfe Bean, as fome have done, who have 

 fuppofed tliem toi>e but one fpecies j for, from hav- 

 ing cultivated them more than forty years, without 

 findingthe Garden Bean degenerate td tKeHorfe Bean, 



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they are diftinft fpecies. 

 There is a great variety of the Garden Beans, now 

 cultivated in the kitchen-gardens in England, which 

 differ in fize and ftiape ; fome of them producing their 

 pods much earlier in the year than others, for which 

 ' they are greatly efteefned by the gardeners, whofe pro- 

 fit arifes from their eaHy crops of moft efculent plants 3 

 ' therefore they are very careful to improve all thofe va- 

 ' rieties which have a tendency to be fit for the markets 

 firft; but as many forts of feeds, when cultivated long 

 in the fame land, are apt to degenerate^ fb new feeds 

 fhould be annually procured, either from abroad, or 

 fomfc diflant fituation, where the foil is of a different 

 nature, by which change many'of the varieties may 

 be continued in perfection. 



I ftiall begin with the Garden Bean, called by the 

 , botanifts, Faba major to diftinguifh it from the Horfc 

 Bean, which they have titled Faba minor feu Equina; 

 and I fliall only mention the names of each, by which 

 they are known among the gardeners, placing them 

 according to their time of ripening for the table/ ...» 

 The Mazagan Bean is the firft and beft fort of earlj^ 

 Eeans atprefent known -, thefe are brought frorfiaftf- 



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