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.•• 'fcillcs, which were brought from Senegal In Africa, 

 by Monf. Adanfon •, this rifes in this country with a 

 Ihrubby ftalk iive or fix feet high, fending out many 

 lateral branches, which are covered with a brown hairy 

 bark, and garnifhed with oval fpear-fliaped leaves, 

 about two inches long, and one inch and a quarter 

 broad in the middle, having feveral tranfverie veins 

 frp.m the midrib to the fides, where they are lawed ; 

 ^ thele are placed alternately on the branches, having 



' very fhort foot-ftalks, and continue in verdure through 

 the year; the plaiats are young, fo have. not as yet 

 fiov^ered in England, therefore I can give no further 



account of them. ...,..*;. 



This fort is tender, fo will not live through the win- 

 ter in 'England, unlefs it is placed in a warm Hove ; 

 'nor do thole plants thrive well, which are placed on 

 fhelyes in the dry ftove ; therefore the only method 

 to have them fucceed, is to place them in the bark- 

 .bedin the tah-ftove, where the plants have grown 

 .: very well for forne years. In fummer thefe plants 

 require a good fhare of free air to be admitted to 

 L- them, and fhould have water three or four times a 

 week in warm "weather ; but in winter they muft be 

 . fparingly watered, and require to be kept warm. 

 G R I A S. Lin. Gen. S^g. , Anchovy Pear. .\ *. 



. The .Characters, are, . . . i 



: ,^he empdlemefit ts'cup-fiapedj of one leaf cut into four 

 :-.z <equal fegments '9 the flower has four leathery concave petals, 

 "' ' and many brijtly flamina which are infer ted to the recep- 

 tacle^ 'terminated by roundifh fummits, and a depreffed ger- 

 men immerfedin the empalement^ having no ftyle^ crowned 

 hy a four-cornered crofs-fhaped ftigtna, which 'ofterwardf 

 becomes a flefljy berry^ with a large nut bavifi^ eight fur- 



rozvsy and one cell containing a large pointed feed. 



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This genus of plants is' ranged in the firft ordei-'' of 



Linnseus/s thirteeiuh chfs^ intitled Polyandria Mono- 



the flowerTiaving many ffamiri'a and one flyle. 



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gynia, 

 :We know but one Species of this genus, viz.'*; 

 I. Gri'a^ (Cauliflora)JI^in7Sp, y'^2. jfhchoiy Pear. Pal- 

 , mis affinis malus Perfica maxima, caudice non ramo- 



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i, fa, foliis longiffimis^ flore tetrapetalo pallide luteo, 

 i' . frudliu ex arboris trunco~prodeunte. Sloan, Hift. Jam. 



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 -^ This plant grows naturally in Jamaica, and in many 



other warm parts of America, where it- rifes with a 

 r * ftrait undivided ftem about twenty feet higf^' having 



a gray bark, marked with the veftigia^'of the fallen 

 l:i leaves i the top of the ftenfiT is' garnifhed V^ith leaves 

 r.^ near two feet long and. fix inches broad, fitting clofe 



without foot-ftalks j thefe have one longitudinal mid- 

 .H rib with feveral tranfverfe veins, and are of a lucid 



green ; the .flp:0?.erS' come out from the ftem below the 

 -J^ - lea^ves, having no. foQt-ftalk, in fome places one, and 

 .;pn others they are in clutters,^ each' having four thick 

 slyellaw petals," and a great number of ftamina which 

 ,i.jare,fixed to thie erAp^lenient 6f'the flower^ the ger- 



men IS mcluded in the empaiementj^ which afterward 



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v.;_Thc fruit 6f this tree "is by the Spahiards inlh^ Weft- 

 2 In4i^s,pickle<J an^.fent to pld Spain as |)refents, who 

 . 'tat them as 



eaten as a 



s Maneo's, and fome fay the ripe fruit is 

 delart. f -.^^i ^icrx; u^iw' iJVrtv - ,-; ;>l?Tnq ' 

 ^Th^ pTarft is propagated by planting of the ftones, 

 t^ which ftiould be put in to the, ground, foo'naftei" the 

 I fruit is gathered, and the plants muft be^conftantly 

 j; Icept in the bark-bed in the ftove, ptTiefwife \t will 



'hot tJirlvfe in this countryl-Sfbo; i^^qo^afn? vi^? ■?"; 



GRQls[OYIA.'Martyrt. Cent. 4.; Liif. Gen, Plant. 



1"284: ■ ,The name of thjs,genus w^s given by the late 



i Dr. Houfton, in honour of Df, Gronovius, a learned 



L,bofanift at Leyden. r;';"h- vr-'^^ ':y^-^'''"j^:^^j:^liiii n^' 



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porting a flender flyle -j)hicb is longer ihj/i' lie r:dmHa 

 crowned by an cbtilfe ftigma. The gcrmcn *:^ftcrward iL 

 comes a roundilh-coloured fruit with one cdly inchfinQ one 

 large roundifj feed, - . ' 



This genus of plants is ranged in the nrft fcftioh of 

 Linnarus's fifth clafs, intitled Pencandiia Monor^ynia 

 which includes thofe plants whole flowers liave five 

 ftamina and one ftyle. i- 



We know but one Species of this genu 



viz. 





Gronovia {Scandens). Hort. Cliff. 74. Gronovia fcan- 

 dens lappacea, pampinea fronde. Plouft. Climhim 

 hurry Gronovia, [ "^ 



' This plant was difcovered by the late Dr. Houftoun 

 at La Vera Criiz, from whence he fent the feeds to 

 Europe, W^ich have fucceeded in many gardens. Ic 

 is an annual plant, which fends forth many traihn 



' branches like thofe of the Cucumber, which are 



clofely fet%ith* broad green leaves, in fliape like thofe 



of the Vine ; but they are covered with fmall fpines 



on both, fides, which fting^-like the Nettle: the 



branches have many tendrils or clampers, by which 



; they faften themfelves to whatever plants they grow 



near, and will rife ti:> the height of fix or eio-ht feet- 



' the flowers are fmall, and of a greenifh yellow colour' 



fo make no great appearance. - 



* This being a veiy tender plant, muft be raifed on a 



hot-bed early in the fp'ring, affd afterward placed in 



the bark-ftov4 and treated Jn the fame way as the 



: Momordica, with which mahagement it w^ll produce 

 ripe feeds i but this having'neither ufe or beauty, is 



.^rarely cultivated but in botanic gardens for the fake 



'' of. variety .--)i 



G R O S S U i. A R I A. Raii Meth. Plant. 1 45. Tourn. 

 Inft. R. H; ^39. tat). 409. Ribes. Lin. Gen.'Plant. 





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247. UOOieD'erry J. m French, Grofelicr.^ : --^i 



This^ .and. the^Currant^ „arg,^^^^^^ placed in ■ 



the lime genus^' under the^ title of Groffularia i they 

 are'aiib'jroiHeid' together by Dr. Linn^us^ iinder the 



' title of . RibesV for i^^^^^^^^ prijicfpal cliarafters tley" 



agree'; fo according W the.. fyftem^^^^ botafi'y, they 

 fhould be included ift.it6e fame genus ; but this may " 

 not Be quite fo prbper in a bo(fy of gardei^ing, for as 



' thefe fruits have always pafled under different deno" 

 minations, ^fo if they ire here joined together, it may 

 occafion fome confufion amons; thofe who do not enter 

 into the ftudy of botany. Mr. Ray has feparated tfiefe 

 into different genera, and makes the difference^ of 

 Goofeberry from the Currant, to confift in tKe'firft 

 haying thorns on the branches, and the fruit growing 

 fingle ; whereas the latter hath finooth branches, an 

 the fruit' growing in long' bunclies ; and' although 



thefe differences may not W ftridly fcientific, yet it 



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; ^he fl(Ptv& has a permanent entpalment of cneleafTcut 

 I 'into frvkfegments at the top^ which isfivollen^'Vohcavey 

 -'^qnd coloured.'^ It hath five fmall, ^obtufe^'ercfl petals, 

 :i which rife from the border of the empalementr, and fi've 

 %'Wstl-fhaped ftaminay which are inferted into the empak- 

 r.*ment, terminated by.'comprejfed prcjirate'fummisy fhe 

 '-■■'; germen is fitU0ted below tpe J^wef^ ' having a bifid ftyU 

 crowned^ an obtufe ftigma^ and afterward becomes agio-. ^ 



7„.r-„ l^yy having a navel^ with one cell, which is filled 



roundifh compreffed feeds- included in a pulf* ""''91, 



i'-This genus of plants is ranged by Df. Linnaeus in the 



: firft feftipn of his, fifth cMs, intitjed Pentandria Mo- 



nogynia, which contains,; thofe 'plants whofe flowers 



have five ftamina and one ftvle. ':'-r^*! --; ^■v> ^Ij^H 



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Xhe CH'AiiACTERS are,„*::.Hr-:^:r. bn;- f-vit 

 -' "The flower hath, apcrtnanent empalement of one leaf which 

 : is coloured^ and cut to the middle into flve fegments. It hath 

 , Jive fmall petals which are fixed to the cuts of the em- 

 palement^ and five hairy ftamina the length of the petals^ 

 which are inferted into the empalement,^ and are placed al- 

 ;■ termite with the petals, terminated by twinfummitj which 

 - areereol. The germen is fttucited under the fiowir^ fup- 



_ Grossularia (Reclinatum) rarriis reclinatis aculeatis, 



: pedunculis triphyllis. Goofeberry with reclining haricles 



"^'- armed with fpines, and a three-leaved foot ftalk, ■ Grof-- 



fularia fpinofa, fruclu bbfcuf-e purpurafcente. J. B. i* 



■48. Prickly Goofeberry with a dark purplifh fruiU " '^ 



2. Grossularia .^,{Jlirfuta) ramis aculeatis," baccis 



'\ Kirfutis. Goofeberry with prickly branches and hairy berri^s.^ 



'' Groflularia frudlu maximohifpido margaritarumfcre 



^ colore. Raii Hift. 14.S4.. Goorebeirv with atcnhrge 



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1S4. Goofeberry 

 \ rough fruit, almoft of a pearl colour.''- '/-■: 



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