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. dom fucceed, or if the plants come up, k- is rarely 

 before the following fpring. When the plants come 

 up, they muft be kept clean from weeds, and the 

 autumn following they may be tranfplanced where 

 they are to remain ; they love a moift foil and a fi-ia- 

 dy fituatipn, but will not thrive under the drip of trees. 

 The roots of the three firft forts will continue feveral 

 years, and every year produce flowers and feeds. The 



' fourth fort will rarely ripen feeds in a garden, fa that 

 l,h^ve been obliged to procure them from the place 

 where it grows naturally. ' ' ■ ' " 



P H A C A. Lin. Gen. Plant. y^2. Aftragaloides. Tourn. 



Inft. R. H. 399. tat). 223. BaftardlMjik-vetch, ' or 



' ^ragaloides.; ' . ■ ; . / ; 



' The Characters are, .. .. '.. , 



^he flower hath a tubulous empaliment of one tedf^ which 



ts cut into five fmall indentures at the brifri. ■' It is of the 



"" butterfly kind, having a large^ oval, ere^t ftanaard, zvith 



*^' two oblong wings Jhorter than the ftandard, which are 



' cbtufe^ and (^fl^QXP, cpmprejfled obtufe keel It hath 'tehfla- 



*-fnind^ nine of which are joined in one bodvy andthe other 



^Ifl^V^ fipflX^J^i ierminqted by romidijh rifing funmits. 

 T^ In the center is Jitudted an oblong germen, fupporting an 



awlfhaped flyle^' crowned by a Jingle ftigma. ^ The ger- 



^men afterward becomes an^ oplong fwelling pod;, whofe up- 



' per future is depreffed toward the under-, having one celL 



l'^ contamin^ feveral kidncy-Jhaped feeds, .." '1 . ^ 



''] This "genus of plants is ranged in the third feftion 



of Linngsus's feventeenth clafs, which includes thofe 

 ": ^ plants whofe flowers have ten ftamma lomed in two 



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three hair-like flamina^ terminated by oblong fi:h^j ; 



and a roundijb germen'^fupportlng 'two' hair-like ftyles^ 



crowned by hairy fiigmas ; the feeds are Inclcfed by the 



petalsof the flower, each cqntaimig one Ji^oth feed pointed 

 at each end, ' '" ' '^^ ^ > ■J'^ o.r : Y - _i 



This genus of plants is ranged in tlie fecond fcaion 



ofLinn^us's.third^clafs, intitled Tnandria Digynia, 



the flowers havmg three ftainina and two Hyles^ ^'^^ 



im Species are, ...:^ ; - - - 





r. Ph^vlaris {Canarienfis) panjcula fqljo^'aca fplciformi, 

 cajinatis glumis. Liii, Sp. Plant. 7%Cqnary Grafs with 

 oval fpike-Jlmpe3 panicles 1 and boat -poaped chaff. Phalaris 

 major femine albo. C. B. P, 28. Cana;-y Grafs with a 



iphitejeed. . ... -^^ '^----^-- ---'*' ^ 



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;i, Phaca {ficefica) caulefcens erefta pilofa, legumini- 

 bus tcreti-cymbriformibus. Lin. Sp. Plant. 7/;^. Phaca 

 with a hairy upright flalk, and taper boat-Jhaped pods. 



' ^''. Aftr^galoides Lufit^nica. Toumi, Inft. R, H. 299- 



' ^'' Portugal BaflardMlk'Vetch ' '"'^^ - "- ■ 



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'2. Phaca {jiilpina) caulefcens ere£la glabra, legumini- 



bus oblongis inflatis fubpilofis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 1664. 



*■ ^baca with an upright fmooth ftqlk^ and oblongs fw^elU 



y i»g"5 iairypods. Aftragaloides elatior ereAa^ yJcise fo- 



|iis, floribus luteis, filiquis pendulis, 'Amman! I^uth. 



, 148. Taller upright Milk-v§tch^y with a Vetch lecif^yel- 



yol^long bellied ^ pamcle.^\ Gvavnca arundiniccumj'acerofa 



■' gluma, Jerlpianum. D. Sher. -^^^;^f; /.- -; 

 Ihere are fever^ fp^.S^^s 9I^l\is g^nus which arc ne- 

 ver cultivated for ufe,'' therefore it would be to little 



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, particularly in the ille of Thanet in Kent, where this is 



;^ efteemed as "a profitable cr^p, and may beTo' to tliofe 

 ;_^ho arefituated where they have wafer cafrwgefoVt^^ 

 /'feed to the London^ marlcets, where is the general de- 

 mand ror this commodity. AboutLondon there is very 

 _^ little of it fown,. and what is there cultivated is chief- 



% Jy by/ome few.surious perfpns,'^ '^i}Jm^^^ quantities, 

 '*"for their amufement. I have feveral years fown fome 

 .- of this leed by way or trial, but have never feen more 

 'than a few rods of ground fown with it, ^^ therefore 

 ^> cannot eive fo good an account of its culture as I 

 ; could wilh: however, 1 fhall briefly give an account 

 of trie fuccefs I have had in thofe trials whicn I have 



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^'The roots or the firft fort which grows naturally in I which fiappened after kept it down,Tot{iat thewl 

 Spam and Portugal, will abide many years, and run ] .,,crop was loft/ _;.^/^J' :;:;,; :'>;: ';:, :*.^';' V :;/;-: : 



made on this plant, . ' ' ^i\ , . „ 



The firft experiment I made was by fowing of the feed 

 in broad calt all oyer the ground^ and as the land was 

 very poor, 1 foWed the feeds tpo thick, . which is the 

 common fault of farmers in generari 'the feeds grew 

 well, but the months of May and Tune provinec wet, 

 the plants grew tall, and havine weak tender ftalks, 

 i heavy raiiiViiicii fell tJie beginliing^of Auguft^^k^ 

 " it fiat on the ground- and many fucceeding fhowers 



whole 



^ : ; Vfjy d^^p intp. the ground, tut tfie tranp^;es^d?pay 

 V every autumn; thefe commonly rife near four feet 



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X^g following yfear I fowed a fppf of gi-piinc! witli ^his 

 feed in rows at a foot diftance, but the feeds were 



'''high, and become ligneous.'^" The flowers are pro- r fown too thick in the drills, fo that xhe plants were' 



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duced in fliort fpikes from the wings of the leaves, 

 ^;^. biat uplefs the fegfpn prove5jVery*'%armi they'ra^^^ 

 * ' flower in England, for which reafon the plants are not 

 ■ , much efteemed ; for it is not once in feven years that 

 ' the flowers arrive to perfeftipn, nor do the plants 



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drawn up fp weak, that great part of thefe wer'e lodg-- 

 \ -led by wet in the mon^^i of Auguft j but many of the' 

 ' outfide plants in the drills, whof? ftalks were much- 

 ' ftronger than thofe of tKe other, remained upright, fo' 



produced a good quantity of feeds which ripened v/ell. ^*^ 



* €Y^r produce feeds in England ; fq that the feeds p^uft I ^Tti^is put rpe on niaking a farther tfial of this' plant ;' 

 ^^be Drocured from abroad, bv thofe who are defirous I" accordingly I fowed the feeds thin, in drills made a 



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vbe procured from abroad, by thofe who are defirous 



to have the plants. ' '" - ^ •'^" ■ . '^:^- -^^v - 



' The fecond fort hath fmooth ftalks, which do hotjrife 

 fo high as the former ; the flowers are fm^Uer, the 

 ' pods are much fliorter, and hang downward. T'*. ■ 

 ^ , jDOth thefe forts are propagated by feeds •, thole of 

 .' tgg firft flioiild beTownin'tneplace'wnere the plants 

 r arf to remairif for as the roots J^rike very deep into 

 ..^ the earth, fo it is yery difficult to tranfplant them 

 J. ■'With any fafety, efpecially after they have remained 

 1' W^P^lideraW^ time in the 'leed-l3ed. The plants 

 ". fiiQuld bfe left about fix feet afundcr, that there may 

 pe room to dig the ground between them every fpring, 

 which IS all the culture they require, except the keep- 

 ing them clean from ^eeds. . 'J J!' - ' 



pe f?cond fort produces flowprs in two year§ from 



' feeds, . and the feeds ripen well in Englapd, but the 



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, . foot afunder, and when the^ pl^-nts came up, where - ' ' 

 tyjthey wefe ' tbo"^ clofe I thinned them, fp as to leave t 

 t'thcrn near two inches diftance in the rows-, and the' 

 ■ feafon proving favourable, the plants lent out marily -J 

 ^^ ftalks from the roots, ^yhlch were ftrong, foableto > 

 V bear up till the" feed ^as perfeftly. ripened ; and by ' 



hbeing the ground three times in the intervals, the ' * 

 . weeds were deftroyed, and the ground kept clean V;' 

 ''' the crop alfo was fo plentiful, as to affure me that the 

 ..„ culture of this plant would anfwer wqll to the farmer. 



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provided a fuflicient quantity of feed was demanded j^- , 

 but as there is but a moderate fale tor the leeds^ and - 



roots rarely live longer than three or four years.- 



PHAL AN.GIUM. ■^eeAN^picuM.'y^^ . 



I* Ji A Jj A R I S, l^in.* Gen. Plant. 74. Canary Grafs. 



i hp Characters are, • ^ 



4? ?j cwf 0/ //:jtf Gr^A /r/^^, with one flower inclofed 



. in a calyXj having two valves, which ts hat-fhaped and 

 (^m$reffed \ the flower . u Ifs tiuiif 'i^ecM, the outer 



, f^ke i4 oblong andjwipd^ £1:903, 



r. thatteing chiefly in London, fo the' culture of this' 



^ plant would not anfwer 'to thofe who are fituated at a 



diftance from the"" metropolis, or w|io had not water 



X carriage for the feeds thitherj' '.f^|^*^V k^ ^ /-' ; -V * 



*^ From feveral trials iince made, Ifind tliat three gal- 



T tons of the feed is fufficieut^to fow aa Icre of land : 



r&d if the feed is fown by a hppperj' whofe fpring' is 



properly fet, to let out the leed at equal diftance, it 



Will be the beft method of cultivating it j and keeping 



the ground clean from" weeds, 'will not only^ improve 



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