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mow than before •, and after they have once Rveatecl 



and are dry again, they never after give. 

 By the new hulbandry, the produce has exceeded 

 the old by more than ten bufliels on an acre ; and it 

 the Beans which are cultivated in the common me- 

 thod are obferved, it v/ill be found that more than 

 half their ftcms have no Beans on them •, for by fcand- 



The Characters are. 



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7/ hal/j male and hermaphrodite flowers upon differ en f 

 plants ; the rnakflo'wers have ajmall empalement-^ fiightly 

 • cut into four fegmentSy but have no petals^ and Jix Jia- 



■ minay terminated by roundifo fummits : thefe are barren, 

 C^^he female flowers have' a larger concave '^ferrndnent 



cmpalement with four fpreading petals^ and four ftamina^ 



^r crowned with oval fummits^ and an oval germen, fup- 



t, porting 'a flender ftyle^ terminated by an obtufe ftigma \ 



the ^efmcn afterward becomes a globular capfule with 



.' iwQ lobcs^ inclofing two feeds, 



'■■ This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedlion of 



- Linnarus'^s fourth clafs, intitled Tetrandria Mono- 



V'gynia j wliercas it fhould be put into hisfixth feftion 



■ of the twenty-third clafs, as the flowers are male and 

 hcrmaplirodite on different plants, and the flowers 

 have fix itamina : but this miftake he was led into by 

 Jacquin, who had ktn and defcribed the hermaphro- 



. dite flowers only. 



'r.'v^cThe Sp£Cies are, ^ , . 



I. Fagara {Ptercta) foliolis emarginatis. Amoen. Acad. 

 ..■"5. p. Z^i-'F^g^yci-i whofe lobes {or fmall leaves) are in- 

 dented at' the top, Lauro aflinis jafmini alato folio, 

 . cofta media membranulis utrinque extantibus' alata, 

 'ligno duritie ferro vix cedens. Sloan. Hill. Jam. 2. 



Ironwood: -.-. : ': •; 'i.c A\:; '-• ■ , --l 



P- 25 



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2, Fagara {'Tragodes) articulis pirinarum fubtus acu- 



leatus. Jacq. Amer. 13. Fagara with fpines under the 



. leaves at the joints, Schinoides petiolis fubtus aculea- 



^ .tis. Hort. 01^489. t:-jifA;tr:: 



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The firil fort grows naturally in the warmefl: parts of 



:Amenca 



The late Dr. Houfl:oun found it growino: 



iat Campeachy, from whence he fent me dried fpeci- 



\.;inens 01 the plants in fiov/er,' by which I am con- 



'^'vinced there are m.ale trees v^hich 'are "barren. It 



p^rifes with a woody flem upwards of twenty feet hio-h, 



i ^fending out branches great part of its length, c^ar- 



■ cxiifhed with fmall winged leaves, having three or five 



■lobes to each. The flowers come from the fide of 



the branches, fl:anding four or five together upon 



:-;fhbft foot-tlalks. . . V , % 



,The fecond fort I have placed here after Linnteiis, 

 ut am not fure it fiiould be ranged with it; for al- 

 though I have pretty Pirong plants of it grov/ino-in 

 the Chelfea garden, they have not yet flowered ; but 



by the external face of the plant, it feems to agree 

 wicli the firft. 



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Thefe are both tender plants, fo muft be kept int*-^ 

 bark-fi:ove ccnilantly, and are propagated by i^*. i^" 

 and alfo by cuttings, if properly managed. ' 



FA G O N I A. Tourn. InlL R, H. 265. cab. 141. i;^^ 

 Gen. Plant. 4.75. This plant was fo named by D-' 

 Tournefort, in honour of Dr. Fagon, who was fun--' 

 intcndanc of the royal garden at Faris. 



ing clofe, they are drav/n up very tall -, fo the tops 

 of the fl:alks only produce, and all the lower part is 

 naked \ whereas in the new method, they bear almoil 

 to theground , and as the joints of the fl:ems arefliorter, 

 fo the Beans grow clofer together on the fl:alks. 

 In the year 1745 I made the following experiment, 

 in planting a piece of eleven acres of Beans in Berk- 

 Ihire, viz. the gentleman's bailiff", who was wedded 

 to the old praftice of hufl^andry, was very unwil- 

 ling to depart from it ; and having been an old fer- 

 vant in the family, his mafl:er was inclinable to hear 

 all he could fay in favour of his opinion : however, 

 at lafl; 1 prevailed on the gentleman to- let his bailiff^ 

 plant one half of the land in his way, giving him 



' the choice which half he would have : accordingly 

 the land v/as divided and planted; but the fumnier 

 proving wet, the Beans on that' part of the field he 

 had chofen grew fo tall and rank, that they produced 

 no pods but on the upper part of the fl;alks ; and 

 . when they v/ere chreflied out, there was no more than 



■ twenty-two bufliels on an acre, whereas the other 



.. half produced near forty. 



FAB A iEGYPTIACA, is the Arum iEgyptiacum. 



F A B A C R A S S A, is Anacampferos. _■ . 



FAB AGO. See ZycoPHYLLUM. 



FA G A R A. Brown. Hifl:. Jam. tab. 5. f. i. Ironwood. 



The Characters are. 





the flower hath a fpreading erapalementy ^^^^^pofed of fin,. 



mall leaves ; it hath five heart-JJjaped petals^ which 

 fpread open^ aud are Tiarrcw at their bafe^ where they are 

 inferted in the enipalement. It hath ten flamina ivhicb 

 are 'ere5l-, terminated by rcundifJo fummits. In the center 

 is fituated a five-cornered germcyt^ fiipportiyig an a-wl- 

 fljaped fiyle^ crowned by a fingle ftigma. The germen 

 afterward becomes a roundifh capfide having five lobes 

 ending in a pointy and five cells^ each having a fingk 

 rGundiflj feed, --^ : _^ 



Linnasus ranges this plant in the firfl: feftion of his 

 tenth clafs, intitled Decandria Monogynia, from the 

 flower having- ten fl:amina and one fl:yle. 



The S:^ECiES are. 



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2. 



Fagoxia (Ere£ld) fpinofa, foliolis lanceolatis planis 

 Isevibus. Hort. Upfal. 103. Prickly Fagonia, whofe 

 leaves are fpearfloaped^ plain,, and fmooth, Fagonia 

 Cretica fpinofa. Tourn. Thorny Trefoil of Candia, . 

 Fagonia (Hifpanica) inermis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 386. 

 Fagojiia without fpines. Fagonia Hifpanica non fpi- 

 nofa. Tourn. Spaniflo Fagonia without thorns, ■ 



3. Fagonia {Arabica) fpinofa, foliolis linearibus con- 

 vexis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 386. Prickly Fagonia with nar- 

 row convex leaves. Fagonia Arabica, longifllmis acu- 



,. leis armato. Shaw. PI. Afr. 229. Arabian Fagonia.^ 

 armed with very long fpines. 

 The firfl: fort is a native of the ifland of Candia: 



.this has been defcribed by fome botanift:s under the 

 title of Trifolium fpinofum Creticum, which occa- 



; -fiohed my giving it the Englifh name of Thorny Tre- 

 foil of Crete; though there is_riq_other affinity be- 



. tween this and the Trefoil, than that of this having 

 three leaves, or lobes on the fame'foot-flialk. ; >* - 

 This is a low plant, which fpreads its branches 

 clofe to the ground, which are extended to the 

 length of a foot or more every way, garniihed 

 with fmall trifoliate oval leaves, placed oppoilFc ; • 

 and 



at 



each joint, immediately below the leaves, . 

 come out two pair of fpines, one on each fide 



and at the fam.e 



one 



places come out a 



flower, {landing upon a Ihort /oot- 



the ftalk ; 

 •lingle blue 



llalk, compofed of five fpear-lliaped petals, which 

 are narrow at their bafe, where they are inferted 

 into the empalement ; after thefe fall away, the ger- 

 men turns to a roundifli five-lobed capfule, ending 

 in an acute point, having five cells, each containing 

 one roundifli feed. It flowers in July and Augufl, 

 but unlefs the feafon proves warm, the feeds do not 

 ripen in England. v - -, ^paj:^^.^^;. *--^;. 



-.The fecond fort grows naturally in Spain j^ this dif- 

 fers from the firfl: in being fmooth, the branches of.di^s 

 having^ no thorns ; and the plant will live two years, 



' whereas the firft is annual. - .' , ^? v.fj 



* The third fort was difco\ered by the late Dr. Shaw 

 in Arabia ; this is a lov/ plant with a flirubby ftalk, 



. from which come out feveral weak branches armed 

 . with long thorns ; the leaves of this are thick, nar- 



. row, and convex on their lower fide \ the flowers 

 come out in the fame manner as in the firft fort,, , 



_ Thefe "plants are propagated by feeds, which Ihoula 

 befown upon a border of frcfli light earth, where the 

 plants are defigned to remain, for they do not bear 

 tranfplanting well ; when the plants come up, they 

 may be thinned out to the diftance of ten inches or a 

 foot; and if they are kept clean from weeds, they 

 will require no other care. - 



The firft fort is an annual p'ant, which feldom per- 



. fefts its' feeds in England, unlefs the lealbns prove 

 very w^arni ; therefore the beft way is to low the 

 feeds upon a warm border in the autumn, and in 

 frofty weather flielter the plants with mats, or fonic 



covering to fecure them \ or if they arc -lown v^ 



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