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rough ftalk near three feet high, dividing toward the 

 top into two or three creft branches, which are gar- 

 nilhed with oblong, oval, fawed leaves, ending in 



they are placed by fours at each joint, 



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acute points 



and are a little woolly on their under fide. 



flow^r-ftalks arife by pairs, and fometimes three come 

 out at the fame joint; they are from two to three 

 inches long, and fuftain a thick fpike of large purple 

 flowers, v/hich are fucceeded by large purple berries 

 that are very fucculent, and are frequently eaten 



by the inhabitants. 



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vided the plants are raifed early in the fpring and 

 brought forward, and the feeds will ripen in autumn. 



foon after which the plants decay. 



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The branches are garniihed with oval fpear- 



whence the late Dr. Houftoun fent me the feeds ; this 

 rifes with a (lender, fmooth, branching ftalk three feet 



high. _ _ _ 



fhaped leaves two inches long, and one inch broad ; 



they are crenated on their edges, and rough on their 



'"by pairs oppofite, ' upon very 

 fhoVt foot-ftalks, having an agreeable odour. The 



upper fide, ftandin 



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flowers come out from the wings of the ftalk, upon 

 very long foot-ftalks ; they are placed oppofite the 

 whole length of the young branches, fuftaining fmall 

 round heads of white flowers •, thefe appear at the 

 fame time with the other forts, but rarely produce 

 feeds in England. 



Thefe plants are all of them eafily propagated by 

 cuttings except the ninth, which is an annual plane, 

 fo can only be propagated by feeds.' They may alfo 

 be propagated by feeds, which feveral of the forts 

 produce in England, and the others may be eafily pro- 

 cured from the Weft-Indies, where there are a greater 

 variety of thefe plants growing naturally, than are at 

 prefent known in Europe ; they are all of them called 

 Wild Sage, by the inhabitants of the Britifti Iflands, 

 but they do not diftinguifti the forts. Thefe feeds (hould 

 ^ be fown in pots filled with light earth, and plunged 

 ^ into a hot-bed of tan -, the reafon for my advifing 



• them to be fown in pots, is, becaufe the feeds frequently 

 remain l6ng in the ground before they vegetate; 

 therefore if the plants ftiould not come up the fame 

 year, the pots ftiould be placed in the ftove in winter, 

 and the following fpring plunged into a new hot-bed, 

 which will bring up the plants* When thefe are fit 



- ■ to remove they ftiould be each planted in a fmall pot, 

 and plunged into another hot-bed, obferying to fliade 



* them till they have taken new root ; then they ftiould 



■ nave air admitted to them every day, '^in proportion 

 to the warmth of the feafon, to prevent ulieir being 

 drawn up with weak ftalks ; afterward they muft be 

 treated in the fame manner as other plants from the 

 fame country,* till they have obtained ftrength ; then 



; they may be removed into an airy gtals-cafe, or a dry 



[ ftove, wTiere they may have a large fliare of air in 



■^ warm weather, but protected frorn the cold. This is 



, necefiary for the young plants, which ftiould not the 



firftyeajbe expofed to the open air," but afterward 



• they may be placed abroad in the warmeft part of 



fummer, and in winter placed upon ftands in the dry 



■ ftove, where they will continue lofig In ^ffowc^r,'" and 

 many of the forts will ripen their feeds ^ but in win- 

 ter they ftiould be fparingly watered, for giuch moif- 

 ture will rot their roots:-^ "^ ^.'^- >* - - -;^ 



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fending out many irregular branches, which arc clofcly 

 garniftied with thin oval leives ending in points, and 

 fawed on their edges, which embrace the branches 

 with their bafe, and from the bofom of each leaf comes 

 out one folitary white flower, which Ls cut at the top 

 into five parts, and at firft fight has the appearance 

 of a Jafmine flower ; but when clofer vie>ycd, the 

 tube will^ be found curved in the fame manner with 

 thofe which Dr. Linnaeus titles ringent flowers. Tk^ 

 flowers are not fucceeded by feeds in England, but 

 the plants are' eafily propagated by cuttino-s, which 

 if planted upon an old hot-bed any time in July, and 

 covered with a bell or hand-glafs, and fliaded from 

 the fun, will put out roots in a month or five weeks ; 

 then they may be planted in pots, and placed in the 

 ftiade till they have taken frefli root j after which they 

 may be removed to a flickered fituation, where they 

 may remain till the frcfts come on. This plant was 

 brought from the Cape of Good Hope, fo is not very 

 tender, therefore may be preferved in a good green- 

 houfe in winter; but during that feafon it muft have 

 a large (hare of air in mild weather, otherwife it is apt 

 to grow mouldy, and this will . caufe the tender 

 branches to decay. In the fummer feafon it may be 

 expofed in the open air, with other green-houfe plants, 

 in a ftieltered fituation, where it will add to the va- 

 riety ; and although the flowers are fmall, and are 

 produced fingly from between the leaves, fo do not 

 make any great appearance; yet as there is a fuc- 

 ceflion of thefe flowers moft part of the year, and the 

 leaves continuing green throughout the year, it is 

 rendered worthy of a place in every coUedion of 

 plants. 



The laft fort is a native of Africa j^ this rifes with a 

 ftrubby four-cornered ftalk eight or ten feet high, 

 covered with a pale loofe bark, fending out many fide 

 branches, garniftied with rough leaves five or fix 

 inches long, whofe bafe embrace the ftalks, but they 

 end with fharp points, and are downy on their under 

 fide ; the branches are terminated by loofe fpikes of 

 pale purple flowers, covered with a meally down; thefe 

 appear in fummer, but are rarely fucceeded by feeds 

 in England. 



This is propagated by cuttings in the fame manner as 

 the eleventh fort, and the plants require the fame 

 treatment. ; , * 



L A N U G I NO U S, fignifies downy, or to be covered 



With a foft down, as a Quince. 

 LAPATHUM.^ SeeRuMEX. ' 



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LAPS ANA. Lin.'Geh. Plant.; 82^. Lampfana & 

 ■ 'Rha^adiolus. Tourn; Inft. R. H: 4fg.Tsih, 272, Nip- 



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'^ ^e jlcnver is compofed of feveral hermaphrodite floret Sj 



: which are included in one common imbricated empalement. 



'^be florets have one petals which is iubuloifs' and ftr etched 



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mtt at the top'i in'fhape of^q tongue^ thefe hayg each five 

 fhort hairy ftamina^ terminated by cylindrical fummits which 

 " coalefce. Thegermen isfttuated at the bottom of the florety 

 ^'fupportmg ajlenderftyky crowned by areflexed bifid Jlig- 

 ma\ the germen afterward^ Vecome's a^Qblong three-cor- 

 nered feed^ fituatedin the f cole of the empakment. "7 ' , 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftiqn of 

 ;"'Linnaeus*s nineteenth clafs, intitled Syngenefia Poly- 

 gamia jEqualis, in which he ranges thofe plants with 



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mina and ftyle are cdrinefted together V and to' this 

 genus he has joined the Rhagadiolus^jnd Zacintha of 

 Tournefort, making thejm only fpecies of the fame 



genus. ■ ____ \. . . ^.^j'K^s ■- ''?;"^:^;?-*\:-^i' ^. 'v ..:v^*. 



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If they are propagated by cutnnffsrthe Left tirne'for [ . hermaphrodite flowers which are fruitful, whofe fta^. 

 ' planting them is in July, after the plants have been ----- 



" expofed to the bpeinVir for ab'oiitam^ by which 

 ' time the ftioots will be ha'rdened fo as to be out of 



danger of rotdng with a little moifture; ' Thefe cut- 

 tings ftiould be planted in frnall pots filled with light 



earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-Led^ and if 



they are fcrcened from the violence of the fun in the 



middle of the day, they will be rooted in kbdut fix 



weeks time,' when they muft be hardened gradually 



to bear the open air, and afterward treated as the old 

 plants. 





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' The eleventh fort has been longin theEnglifti gardens, 

 and is coninionly called the Ilex-leaved Jafmine. This 

 fort rifes with a fiirubby ftalk five "or 'fix feet high, 



The Species are, ;. > 



1. Laps ANA (Communis) calycibus fruAus angulatis, pe^ 

 " dAinculis teriuib'us rariiofiflimis. Hort. Cliff. 384. Nip- 

 plewort with angular mpd^^^^fAj<^.tbe fruity and very 

 narrow branching footfialks, Lampfana. Dod. p, 675. 



Common Nipplewort. ^ . 



2. Lapsana [Rhagadiolus)cz\yah\xsiv\!i6i\xs Undiquepa- 

 tentibus'^ radiis fubulatis, foliis lyratis. Hort. tJpfal. 



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