from two to three feet high, garnifhed with oval acute- 

 poinred leaves, placed by pairs at each joint, and are 

 tcnrinated by clufters of purple flowers, which ap- 

 pear in April and May. The male flowers grow upon 

 feparate plants from the female. The latter produces 

 feeds which ripen in July ; the fl:alks decay in au- 

 tumn, but tlie roots continue feveral years. 

 There is a variety of this with double flowers, which 

 is cultivated in gardens, by the title of Red Bachelor's 

 Button. This is an ornamental plant, and continues 

 long in flower. It is propagated by flips, which fliouid 

 be planted the beginning of Augufl: in a fliady border 

 of loamy earth, where they will take root in about fix 

 .weeks or two months, and may then be tranfplanted 

 into the borders of the flower-garden. Thefe roots 

 Ihould be annually tranfplanted, otherwife they fre-' 

 quently rot ; and young plants mufl; be propagated by' 

 flips to fupply the decay of the old roots, which are 

 not of very long duration. This fort thrives befl: in 



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planting the plants, and parting the roots, is the fame 

 as for the fecond fort, and the feeds may be fown up- 

 on a fhady border in March. In dry weather the 

 ground mufl: be kept moift:, otherwife the feeds will 

 not grow. When the plants come up, and are fit to 

 remove, they fliouid be tranfplanted into a, fliady bor- 

 der, where they may remain to flower. 

 The feventh fort grov/s naturally in Siberia : this hath 

 a perennial root, from which arife many narrow leaves 

 fitting clofe to the ground. The fl:alks rife a foot hi^Th, 

 dividing into branches by pairs. The flowers grow- 

 out from the diviaori of the branches, as alfo at the 

 top of the flalks. They are compbfed of five white 

 petals, which are divided in the middle ; thefe ap- 

 pear in June, and are fiicceeded by roundifli capfules 

 filleci v/ith fniall angular feeds, which ripen in Au- 

 gufl:. This requires the fame treatment as the for- , 

 ■ mer fort. . ,. ,. 



The eighth fort v/as brought from Portugal to Eng- 



a foft loamy foil, and in a fhady fituatlon, where they land, and is probably a , variety of one with fingle 



have only the morning fun. 



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The fourth, fort is very common upon dry banks on different from any we have in England. This ap- 

 the fide of roads in mofl: parts of England, fp is not ,-. proaches nearefl: to the Double Ragged Robin, but is 

 admitted into gardens ; there is a variety of this with . different from that. - It hath a perennial root, fronl 

 purple flowers, which I find is by fome fuppofed tol -.; which arife many oblong narrow leaves fitting clofe 

 be the fame as the third, but is very different, for the j\;., to the ground. It divides into feparate heads like 

 ftalks of this are branched put much more; the | ,?- tlie fecond fort, and from each of tliefe come out an 

 leaves are longer and more veined, and the flowers of 

 this fl:and fingly upon pretty long foot-fl:alks, fo are 



: upright ftaljc about nine inches high, which divides 

 :,?tlpwards by pairs, and from the middle of each divi- 



not produced in clufters like thofe of the third. This - .--fion comes ouf a flender foot-fialk two inches long^ 



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, is alfo very hairy, and the emp^lement of the flowers 

 is fwollen like inflated bladders. >- This flowers near 

 a month after the otTief, but the male and female 

 ; fiowe'rs grow upon different plants, as in the former. 

 There is a variety of this with double flowers, which 

 ; is propagated in gardens by the title of Double white 

 , Bachelor's Button, and is an ornamental plant in the 

 . flower-garden; though being white it doth not make 

 fo good an appearance as the other, however it adds 

 «^ to the variety. This is propagated in the fame way 

 • as the double fort before-mentioned, but the plants 

 . will thrive in a drier foil, and a more ooen expofure 

 ■than that. ■ .\ / 



. The fifth fort grows very common in moifl meadows, 

 and by the fide of rivers in mofl: parts of England, 

 I.- where it is intermixed with the Grafs. This rifes with 

 \ upright uhbranched ftalks near a foot and a half high, 

 .: garoifhqd with narrow fpear-fliaped leaves, placed by 

 ;>, pairs oppofite at each joint. The fl:alks are flender, 

 . channelled, and are terminated by fix or feven purple 

 ' flowers upon pretty long foot-ftalks, which branch 

 :- out. The empalement of the ilower is fl:riped M^ith 

 '. purple, and the petals of fh^q^ flowers are deeply jag- 

 - ged in four narrow fegments, which appear as if torn ; 

 -^^ from whence tKe country people have given it the ap- 

 .*' pellation of Ragged Robin;''*- It flowfers in May, and 

 the feeds ripen in July. This fort. is., never kept in 

 V gardens, but there is a variety of it with very double 

 V. flowers, which is propagated by the gardeners for or- 

 nament. It only differs from the fingle in the multi- 

 plicity of the petals, anH produces no feeds,' fo is 

 propagated by flips in the fame manner as the fecond 

 fort._ It is commonly known by the title of Double 

 Rasped Robin. ■ :^. . .- - /r= . , 



. fufl:aining one double purple flovfer at the top, whofe 

 ->- petals^are very much j^.gged at ^thgir points ; the em- 

 ; palements of the flowers are nfiarked with deep pur- 

 :- pie fl:ripes. ifFrom the fide of the flralks there are al- 

 fo foot-flalks come out at the wings, which for the 

 mofl: part fuftain but one .flower, thou^^h fometimes 

 they have two ; thefe flowers being very double, are 

 never fucceeded by feeds. ^ The ufual time of this 

 plant flowering is in June, but fometimes it fends 

 out frefh llalks, which have flowers in the autumn. 

 - It is propagated by flips in the fame manner as the 

 third and fourth forts, but coming from a warm 

 country,' it is ipipatient of much cold, and requires 

 -a particular treatment, for it does not thrive well in 

 -i\pots ; nor will it live through the winter in openbor- 

 . ;;ders, fo that the only fituation in which I have feen it 

 '/.- thrive, was where it was planted as clofe aspofllble to 

 *Va fouth v/all in dry undunged.^e.ip,rth i for Jnji.ch or 

 ;:.;:jriiojfl: groun4jh.e_i"90t3.prelcntly rot, as they alfo do 

 .,^,when theyare watered. ii.Ifjihey are planted in brick 

 • rubbifh, they witl fl:ill do better. I was favoured with 

 vthi's plant by JoTin Browfuri^, Efqr.pf Lihcolii's-inn, 



who.received it froni Portugal. ',^-S?> '? 



The ninth fort grows naturally in t\\c northern parts 



of Europe, i 'It is like the fourth fort, but the petals 



;Vof the floVefsJo riot extend beyond the empalement^ 



.^and the ,empalenients are much larger and more 



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^ 'The fixth fort grows naturally on the Alps, lo Lap- 

 i land, and the other cold parts of Europe. c:rThis is a 

 ^ perennial plant which delights in a moifl: foil.' v.The 

 . llalks of this are ered, half a foot high, garniflied 

 ; v/uh narrow fpear-fliaped leaves placed by pairs op- 

 . pofite, like the former fort, but are a little fliorter and 

 ■ broader ; the bottom leaves are broader than -thofe 

 * upon the ftalks, and fit clofe to the ground ; they are 

 : fmooth, and of a deep green : the flov/ers are produced 

 . in a corymbus on the top of the fl:alk, fitting clofe to- 

 gether ;^ they are of a purple colour, and the petals 

 are cut in the middle. This flowers the beginning 

 of June, and the feeds ripen in Augufl:. It i 



■ Agrostemma, Cucubalus,' Saponaria, and Si- 

 LENE, to which articles the reader is defired to turn 

 y'.ioT thofe which are not here enumerated. 

 LYCIUM. Lin. Gen. Plant. 232. Jafminoides." Nif-^ 



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;. fbe flo'u^er hath a fmalU ohttffe, permanent mipdement^ 



x':nvhich is ere^^ and divided into five part's at the top \ the 



flower is funnel-fljaped^ of one petal, <tjoith an inair1;ed 



- . ttihc, whofe hrim is cutjMtJye^^^obtufe fegments^ which 



■ fpreadopen. It has five cwl-Jhnped ftamina, which are a 



, little inclined andfihorter than the tiibe\ terminated by ere ' 



fummits. In the center is Jit ua ted a roimdiffj gcrmen fup- 



porting a Jingle ftyle, which is longer than the ftamina^ 



crowned by a thick bifid ftigma j the gernien afterwards 



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