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him fcparated from it, as differing in the form of che j 



flower. 



It crrov/s wild in Candia, and on mount Baldus, in 



Itaty as alfo in Provence, where it was difcovered by 



Dr Garidel, who fent the feeds to Dr. Tourneforc, I Amalth. 139. tab. 428, f. i. 



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We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 

 Gaura (Biennis.) Amcen. Acad. 3. p. 26. Gaura, Ly- 

 fimachia cham^nerio fimilis floridana, foliiis nicris 

 punftis capfulis carinatis in ramulorum cvmiF. Pkik. 



for the Royal Garden at Pans. 

 This is an annual plant, which rifes with an upright 

 ftalk a foot high, dividing into feveral flender 

 branches, garnifhed at their joints with very flender 

 leaves like thofe of Fennel. The ftalks are terminated 

 by one fmall flower, of a pale herbaceous colour, 

 •which is fucceeded by three capfules, each containing 

 two or three fmall feeds. It flowers in June and July, 

 and the feeds ripen in September. It is propagated 

 by feeds, which fhould be fown in autumn, on a bed 

 or border of light frefh earth, where the plants are 

 defigned to remain (for they feldom thrive if they are 

 tranfplanted ;) when the plants are come up, they 

 mufl; be carefully cleared from weeds, and where 

 they are too clofe, they muft be thinned, leaving 

 them about four or five inches apart ; this is all the 

 culture the plants require, and if the feeds are per- 

 mitted to fcatter, the plants will come up without any 

 farther care. 



GAULTHERIA. 



The Characters are, 

 Jt hath a double permanent empalement •, the outer has 



■ two oval^ concave^ Jhort leaves \ the inner has one bell- 

 Jhaped leaf cut into five fegments ; the flower has one oual 



i petals cut half-way into five fegments^ which arerefiexed ; it 

 has ten awl-Jhaped ne^arii, which are floort^ furrounding 

 the germen and ftamina^ and ten awl-fhaped incurved fia- 

 itiina infer ted to the receptacle^ terminated by bifid horned 

 fimmiitSy and a roundijh depreffed germen^ fupporting a 



This is a biennial plant, which grows naturally in Vir- 

 ginia and Peniyivania : the ftalk rifes four or five feet 

 high, fending out feveral branches, which are gar- 

 niihed with oblong, fmooth, pale, green leaves, fit- 

 ting pretty clofe. The flowers are produced in clofe 

 tufts at the end of the branches *, they are compofed 

 of four oblong petals, of a pale Rofe colour, irregu- 

 larly placed, having eight ftamina furrounding thv* 

 ftyle. The flowers appear in September, and when 

 the autumn proves favourable, the feeds will ripen 

 toward the end of Oftober. 



If the feeds of this plant are fown on open borders 

 foon after they are ripe, they will more certainly fuc- 

 ceed than when they are fown in the fpring. When 

 the plants come up, they mufl: be kept clean from 

 weeds ; and if they are too clofe, fome of them 

 fliould be drawn out, and planted in a bed to allow 

 room for the other to grow j in the autumn they 

 Ihould be all tranfplanted to the place where they arc 

 defigned to ftand for flowering and perfedting their 

 feeds, and will require no other culture but to fup- 

 port their branches to prevent the autumnal v/inds 

 From breaking them down. 

 GENERATION is, by naturalifl,s, defined to be 

 the a6t of procreating and producing a thing which 

 before was not ; or, according to the fchoolmen, it is 

 the total change or converfion of a body into a new 

 one, which retains no fenfible part or mark * of its 

 former ftate. 



cylindrical fiyle., crowned by an obtufe fiigma ^ the ger~ I Thus we fay, fire is generated^ when we perceive it 

 men afterward becomes an obtufe five-cornered capfule^ I to be where before there was only wood, and other 



having five cells^ faftened to the interior empalement^ 

 ' which turns to a beny open at the top^ filled with hard 



angular feeds. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the firfl: feftion of 



Linnaeus's tenth clafs, intitled Decandria Monogynia, 

 r the flower having ten ftamina and one ftyle. 



We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 

 Gaultheria {Procumbens.) Amoen. Acad. 3. p. 14. 

 ■ Trailing Gaultheria. Vitis Idaea Canadenfis, pyrol^ 



folio. Tourn. Infl:. 608. Canada Wortle-berry with a 



winter-green leaf 



fuel, or when the wood is fo changed, as to retain no 

 fenfible charafter of wood ; in the like manner a chick 

 is faid to be generated, when we perceive a chick, 

 where before was only an egg, or the egg is changed 

 into the form of a chick. , 



In generation there is not properly any produclron 

 of new parts, but only a new modification or manner 

 of exifl:ence of the old ones, and thus generation is 

 difl:inguifhed from creation. 



Generation alfo differs from alteration, in that in al- 

 teration the fubjedt remains apparently the fame, and 



This plant grows naturally in feveral parts of North is only changed in its accidents or afFeftions, as iron. 



America upon fwampy ground, fo is with difficulty 

 preferved in the Englifl^ gardens. The branches of 

 this trail upon the ground, and become ligneous, but 



which before was fquare, is now made round > or when 

 the fame body which is well to-day, is fick to-morrow. 

 Again; generation is the oppofite to corruption, 



never rife upward ^ they are garniftied with oval en- ' which is the utter extinflioh of a former thing ; as, 

 tire leaves, placed alternate ; the flowers are produced [ when that which before was an egg, or wood, is no 



on the fide of the branches ; they are of an herba- 

 ceous colour, fo make little appearance, and very 

 rarely are fucceeded by fruit in England. 

 The only method in which I have fucceeded to keep 



•this plant, was by planting of it in a pot, filled with 

 loofe undunged earth, placing it in the fhade, and 

 frequently watering it ; with this management I have 



■ kept the plant alive three years, and have had flowers 

 but no fruit. 



GAURA. 



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The Characters are, 

 // bath an empalement of one leaf which falls off^ with 

 ^ long cylindrical tube^ having four oblong glands faftened to 

 tt \ the upper part is cut into four oblong fegments^ which 

 arerefiexed. The flower hath four oblong rifmg petals^ 

 which are broad at the top but narrow at their bafe^ 

 fitting upon the tube of the empalement^ and eight upright 

 flender ftamina which are fljorter than the petals^ and a 

 nefarious gland between the bafe of each^ voith oblong 

 moveable fummits. The oblong gerfnen is fituated under 

 the flower^ fupporting a flender flyle the length of the 

 ftamina,^ crowned by four oval fpreading fligmas ; the 

 flower is fucceeded by an oval four-cornered comprejfed 

 capfule, contaijting one oblong angular feed. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firfl: feftion of 

 Linnsus's eighth clafs, intitled Oftandria Monogy- 

 nia, the flower having eight fl:amina and one ftyle. 



Jonger either the one or the other •, whence it appears, 

 ' that the generation of one thbg is the corruption of 

 another. 



The Peripateticks explain generation by a change or 

 paflfage from a privation, or want of a fubfl:antial 



form,, to the having fuch a form. 

 The moderns allow of no other change in generation, 

 than what is local-, and, according to their no- 

 tion, it is only a tranfpofition, or new arrangement 

 of parts ; and, in this fenfe, the fame matter is capa- 

 ble of undergoing an infinite number of generations. 

 As for example : A grain of Wheat, being committed 

 to the ground, imbibes the humidity of the foil, be- 

 comes turgid, and dilates to fuch a degree, that it 

 becomes a plant ; and, by a continual accefllon ot 

 matter, by degrees, ripens into an ear, and at length 

 -into a feed ; this feed, when ground in a mill, appears 

 in the form of a flour, which, being mixed up with 

 water, makes a pafl:e, of which bread is generated 

 by tlie addition of yeaft, and undergoing the operation 

 of fire, i. e. by baking ; and this bread being ccmi- 

 nuted by the teeth, digefl:ed in the ftomach, and con- 

 veyed through the canals of the body, becomes flefh, 

 or, in other words, flefli is generated. 

 Now the only thing effected in all this feries of gene- 

 ration, is a local motion of the parts of the matter, 



and their fettling again in a different -order ; fo chat 



where- 



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