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treated in the fame manner as the hardy perennial 

 forts before mentioned. 



The fixtecnth fort grows naturally in the Ifland of 

 Sc James, from whence the feeds were firfc brolight 

 to Europe, but I have fince received the feeds from 

 the Cape of Good Hope. This hath a flender ftalk 

 which is woody, rifing from two to three feet high, 

 fending out many flender herbaceous branches, gar- 

 nifhed with narrow white leaves, which are fomctimes 

 trifoliate, and at others there are five narrow lobes to 

 each ; thefe fit clofe to the branches, and are hoary. 

 The flowers are produced from the flde of the fl:alks 

 towards their upper part, upon very flender foot- 

 Italks, each fufljaining four or five flowers collefted in 

 a head, of a yellowilh deep purple colour, which are 

 fucceeded by taper flender pods little more than an 

 inch long, containing five or fix fmall roundifli feeds. 

 This plant flowers all the fummer and autumn, and 

 many times great part of the winter, elpecially if 

 the plants arc placed in a dry airy glafs-cafe, where 

 they may be free from damp, fornothing is more pre- 

 judicial to them. It is too tender to live abroad in 

 England, fo the plants mufl: be kept in pots ; and in 

 the winter placed in a warm airy glafs-cafe, but in 

 the fummer they fliould be placed abroad in a ihel- 

 tered fituation. It may be eafily propagated by cut- 

 tings, during the fummer feafon, in the fame way as 

 the fifth fort, and alfo by feeds ; but the plants which 

 have been two or three times propagated by cuttings, 

 fcldom are fruitful. 



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by roundifh fcedveflVls with four l^^fy membranes 

 they open in four cells including many fmall feeds^ 

 It flowers in July, and the feeds ripen in the autumn. 

 The plants mufl be raifed in a hot-bed in the fpring* 

 and treated in the fanie manner as hath been directe'd 

 • for the Am.aranthus -, for if they are not brought for- 

 ward in the fpring, they feidom produce good feeds 

 in England. 



L U F F A. Tourn. Act. R. S. 1709. Momordica. Lin, 

 Gen. 967. Egyptian Cucumber. 

 The Characters are. 



It hath a helljhapcd fiovcer conjijling of cne Icaf^ which 

 is divided into five parts to the center ; there are male and 

 female floxvers on the fame plant. The male flowers are 

 produced on fijori fcct'jlalks^ having no embryos -, but the 

 female flowers rejt on the top%f the embryos^ which after- 

 ward become a fruit like a Cucumber to out^joard appear- 

 ance^ but is not flefljy ; the inner part conjtfting of mam 

 fibres J which are elegantly netted ; a?id there are three cells 

 which are filled with fceds^ which are almoft of an oval 

 fhape. 



We have but one Species of this plant, viz. 

 LiVfF A {^gyptiaca) Arabum. Tourn. Ad. R. 170. The 

 Luffa of the Arabians, 



There are two varieties of this plant, one having 

 white, and the other black feeds ; but thefe are not 

 . difl:in(5t fpecies. 



. This plant may be propagated after the fame man- 

 ' neras Cucumbers and Melons, by fowingthe feeds on 

 a hot-bed the beginning of March; and when the 



The feventeenth fort grows naturally ^bout Montpe- I plants are come up, they mufl: be pricked into a frefh 



lier; it rifes with weak flirubby*iialks three or four J hot-bed to ftrengthen the plants, pbfervihg to let 



feet high, lending out many flender branches, which I them have frefla air every day in warm weather, and 



arc thinly gai'niflied with fmall h6ary leaves, growing r ' to refrefli them frequently with water. * When the 



with five lobes in form of a hand ; they fit clofe to the I plants havejfour or five leaves, they fliould be planted 



branches. The flowers are produced at the extremity 

 ,. rof the branches in fmall heads ; they are very fmall 

 "*"aHd white, fo make no great appearance ; they ap- 



. .pear in June, and are fucceeded by ftiort pods con- 

 , taining two or three fmall round feeds which ripen 

 ' *,^in the autumn. This ftirub will liv^ in the ojpen air, 

 „ 'if it be planted in a dry foil and a warin fituation. It 

 '^ri^is propagated by feeds, which will come up in any 



t common border. 



XOT U S A R B O R See Celtis. 

 X V E-A P P L E. See Lvcopersicon. 



LUDVIGI A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 142. 





out upon a hot-bed where they are defigned to re- 

 main, which fliould be under frames, and but one plant 

 put into each light; for as* thefe plants lend forth a 

 great number of fide-flioots, fo where they are planted 

 too clofe, they will entangle one into the other, and 

 become fo thick, as to caufe the fruit to drop. In the 

 management of thefe plants, after they are planted 

 out for good, there mufl: be the fame care taken as 

 for Melons and Cucumbers, with this difference only^ 

 that thefe require a larger fliare of air in warm wea- 

 ther; otherwife the Vines will grow weak, and will 

 not produce fruit. 



This title was given to this genus of plants by Dr. ^ When the plants have fpread, fd as to fill the frames 



^ liinnaeus, in honour of M, Chrifl:. L^udwig, of Leip- 

 .^ "Tic, who publiihcd Remarks on Riyinus*s Method of 

 v:,clairmg Plants, atLeipfic, in 1737. ' \ -: 



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1%e empalement of the flower is of ^qne leafy cut Jntq 

 four fegments at thetopy and Jits upon the germen, -''^ The 



on every fide, the frames fliould be raifed on bricks^ 



.-■and the ends of the plants drawn out^ tliat they may 



i^-. have room to grow ; for when theTfe plants are in a 



t-:vigo?ous fl:at:e, they will fpread eight or tenfecC; fo 



that if they are confined, they will become fo thick, as 



'to rot the tender branches which are covered from 



s{ r flower conjtfts offourfpear-Jhapedpetals^ which are equal, I the air, and there will be no fruit produced. 



. and fpread open. In the center of thejlower is Jituated 

 * the four-cornered poinidfy ^ attended^, by faur flamina, ; the 

 \.,gernten afterward becomes a four-cornered fruit , crowned 

 llwith the empalement^ and has four cells which are full of 



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This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftion of 

 >.,, Linnseus's fourth" claJi, which. .includes thofe plants 

 ^^whofeflowjers haygfour fl;amina and one fl:yle. *v^^ j 

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LtJdvigia {AlternifoUa) foliis alternis tanceolatis. Lin. 



:vSp' Plant. 118. Ludvigiawich aJternBe''fpear-fhaped 



leaves. • Ludvigia capfulis fubrotundis. Hort. Cliff. 



-:A9^* Ludvigia with roundi/bcapfules.tx^h: .: T .: ' * 1 

 -^ We have no Englilh name for this plant^ but it is 



;yery near akin to the Onagra,''6r Tree Primrofe, from 

 _which it differs in the number of fl:amina.^-, . ::.^*:\4^V.. 1 



is^ plant gro>vs naturally in South Carolina, Troni 



, whence the l^tcDr. Dale fent me the feeds. It is annual, 



and rifes with an upright branching fl:alk a foot high, 



garniflicd with fpear-fhaped leaves placed alternate, 



. The flowers come cut fingly at the fbot-fl:alks of the 



i^^Xes> they are compofed of four fmall yellow pe- 



-tals, which Ipread open, fl:anding upon fliort foot-' 



: ftalks, and have four ft:amina; the flowers are fucceeded 



The fruit, when it'is young, is by fome people eaten^ 

 ■ -and made into Marines, ahd preferved in pickle t but 

 it hath a very difagreeable talle, and is not accounted l 

 very wholefome : wherefore thefe plants are feldont 

 cultivated in Europe, except *by fuch perlons as are 

 curious in botany, for variety.- r.-s^ .,^t ^^.4-^.^.-. 



LUNARIA. ToUfn. Infl:. R. H. 218. tab. 105. 



. Gen. Plant. 725. [fo called of Luna, tat. the moon, 

 becaufe the feed-veflels refemble the form of the 



' moon.] Moonwort, Sattin Flower, br Honefl:y'j in 

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The empalement of the flower is iompofed of four oblong, 



oval, fmall leaves, which are obtufe and fall off \ the flower 

 : has four petals in form of a ^crofs^ which are large, obtufe, 

 ' and entire: it hath fix awl-fhaped ftamim,fiouf of thefe 

 "rMre ih Ifigih of the eynpaleminT\'the other' two are 

 -fhorter, t'erminated by ere^ fummits^'Vlt has an oblong 

 - oval germin fitting upon a fmall foot -ftalk,' fuppor ting a 

 • ' fhort ftyle, crowned by an entire obtufe ftigma. The ger- 



men afterward becomes an erelf, plain^ compreffed, elliptical 

 ' pod, fitting upon the fmall foct-ftalk, 'terminated by the 



ftyle, having two ' cells opening with two vdves, which 

 • are 'parallel, incloftng fever al compreffed kidney-fhaped feeds^ 



which are bordered^ fitting in the middle of the ^od, 



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