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tab. i. Jfrkhh Bajtard AtaternuSy ivHb fledib ledviS hnJ 

 . i»bite mojfy flowers. ■•- • • -■^'' . 



2. PnYticA {Plumofa) foliis lineari-fubulatis, fummis 

 hirfutis. Prod. Leyd. 199. Phylica'with narrcw awl- 

 paped leaves, which are hairy at the top. Chamasls^a 

 foliis anguftis fubtus incanis, floribus capitatis mufco- 

 fis. Burm. Plant.' Afr. 117. tab. 43. Spurge Olive 

 wilb narrow leaves, which are hoary on their under fide^ 

 and mojfy flowers colle5ledin heads. . ^ .; * i 



3, Phvlica {Btixifolia) {oYm ovatis fparfis. Lin. Sp. 

 Plant. 195. Phylica with oval leaves growing fcatter- 

 ingly, Chamsel^ea folio fubrotundo fubtus incano flo- 

 ribus in capitulum collcftis. Burm. Plant. Afr. IJ9. 



• tab. 44. Spurge Olive with roundip leaves, which are 

 hoary on their under fide, and flowers colleEied in heads. 

 The firft fort grows naturally at the Cape of Good 



. Hope, from whence it was firft brought to the gar- 

 dens in Plolland -, but it alfo grows naturally' about 



• ^ilbon, where there are large extents cf'ground co- 

 vered with it, in the fame manner^ as are many lands 



" in England covered with Heath. This is alow bufhy 

 plant, fcldom rifing more than three feet high; the 



.•■ ualks are fhrubby and irregular, dividing into many 



i-fpreading branches, -twhich are again divided into 

 fmaller. The young branches are clofely garnifhed 



; with fliort, narrow, acute-pointed leaves placed in 

 whorls round the ftalks, to which they fit clofe ; they 

 are of a dark green, and continue all the year.'iAt 



■ the end of every fhoot, the flowers are produced in 

 frnall clufters fitting clofe to the leaves • they 'are of 

 a pure white, and begin to. appear in the autumn, 

 continuing in beauty all the winter, and decay in the 

 ipring, which renders the plant more valuable. Thefe 



.flowers are riotfucceeded by feeds in England. , " ". 

 :^,Thc fecond fort grows naturally at the Cape of Good 



■- Hope, from whence it was brought to the gardens in 

 '- Holland. This hath an eredt flirubby fl:alk, which rifes 



;*" near three feet high, covered with a purplifli bark, 

 . ^ ari,d here and there fome white down upon it ; the 

 -'leaves are narrow, fliort, and acute-pointed, fitting 

 '. ^ clofe to the branches in alternate order on every fide; 

 " they are thick, nervous, and of a dark green on their 



■ upper fide, but hoary on their under. . The flowers 

 '■' are colle£led in fmall heads at the end of the branches; 

 ■ they are white, woolly, and fringed on their borders, 



-.; cut into fix acute fegments at the top, Thefe appear 

 ;.- the beginning of winter, and continue long in beauty, 

 r but arc not fuccceded by feeds in England 



The third fort is a'native of the^Tatne'^country as the 



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an old'hot-bcd or In the ground, covering them ciofe 

 with bell or hand-glafles as before, and treating thetii 

 in the fame way ; thefe will put out roots in about 

 two months, but it will then be too late in the fea- 

 fon to tranfplant them, fo they muft remain in the 

 fame pots till fpring. If thefe are placed under a hot- 

 bed frame in autumn, w^here they may be prcteiled 

 from the froft, and expofed to the open air in mild 

 v/eather, they will fuccted better than when they 



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' The plants are too tender to thrive in the open air in 



England, fo they rriuft be kep't in pots and houfed in 



winter ; for although the firft fort will live through 



the winter in a warm flickered fituation when the fca- 



- fons prove favourable, yet when fevere frofts happen 



they arfe always deftroyed ; but they require no artifi- 



■ cial heat to preferye them, if they are flickered under 



a hot-bed frame in winter when they are young, and 



after they are grovJh large kept 'in" a' green-liotife, 



-; where they may enjoy the free air in mild weather, 



and treated in the lame way as other hardy exotic 



^ plants from the fame country •, in the fummer they 



/v. muft be. placed abroad in a flickered fituation, "with 



\ which management the plants will thrive and coriti- 



i niie feveral years ; and as they flower in the winter, 



they 'make a good appearance in the green houfe 



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PHYLLANTHUS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 932 

 fide Laurel. 



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U: former ; this rifes with a flirubby ereft ftalk five or 



■;- fix feet high ; the ftalks when old, are covered with 



, '^'X a rough purplifli bark, but the younge"rl)ranches have 



"a woolly down ; thefe arb glrniflied with thick oval 



" leaves about the fize of thofe of the Box- tree ; they 



are veined, fmooth, and of a lucid green on their up- 



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; // bath male and female flowers in the fame plants thi 

 empalements of the flower in both fexes are permanent^ 

 bell-fhaped, and^of one leaf, cut into fix parts 'which . 

 fpread operty and are coloured.^ ^The flowers have no ps-/ 



' tab according to fome, or no empalements according t($. 



others:; "the male flowers have three fhort fiamina which 



join at their hafe, but fpread afunder at their top, and , 



are terminated by twin' fummits." "The female flowers ^^ 



flyles, crowned by obtufe ftigmas. The gerracn. afterward 

 becomes a roundifb capfule with three furrows, having 

 three cells, each containing afingle roundifh feed-. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the third feftion 

 of LinnsEus's twenty-firft clafs, which includes thofe 

 plants which have male and female flowers on the 

 lame plant, and the male flowers have three ftamina. 

 The Species are, ,,, 





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. Phyllanthus (Epipbilanthus) foliis lanceolatis* ferv.- .. 

 ratis, crenis floriferis. HorL Cliff: ^(.39. Phyllanthus- ' 

 with fpcar-fhaped fa'S^d leaves, having flowers growing . 

 on their edges. -Phyllanthus Ahiericana planta, florcs 

 e fingulis foliorum crenis ptoferens. Hort. Amft. ,1. 



p. 199. American PhyllanthuSy with flowers growing out • 

 of every indenture of the leaves. -:"*'' ', . \:^ . \^!^,,:^%^ 



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• X per" fide, 'but are hoary on their under; they have |2.'" Phyllanthus (iWrm) foliis pinnatis floriferis, flo-, 

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branches. The flowers are colle<5led in fmall heads at 

 the enii of the brancKes; they are of an herbaceous 

 colour^ fo make rio great figure.- Thefe appear at 

 the fame time with the former. 

 i'* As thefe plants do not produce feeds in England, fo 

 ^. they are propagated by cuttings^ which, if properly 



■ ^managed, will take root freely. , There are two fea- 

 . -lens for planting thefe cuttings ; the firft is the lat- 



* cer end of March, before the plants begin to fi)oot ; if 



■ "thefe are planted in pots and plunged into a very mo- 



, derate hot-bed, covering them clofe with bell or Harid- 



*' glalTesj oberving to fliade them from the fun. in the 



; middle of the day, and to refrefli them gently with 



water, they will put out roots in two months ; then 



they fliould be inured to the open air, and after they 



* have obtained ftrength, they fliould be carefully taken 

 • out of thefe pots, and each planted in a feparate fmall 



pot, filled with foft loamy earth, and placed in a fliady 



^ fituation until they have taken new root, when they 



may be removed to aftieltered fituation, where they 



may remain till autumn. 



ri^us pedunculatis, caule herbaceoerefto.Flor. Zeyl. 

 t- ^^it' Phyllanthus with winged leaves bearing flowers on 

 '"' foot-ftalks, and an upright herbaceous flalk. Niruri Bar-'' 

 :; badenfe, folio ovali fubtus glauco petiolis florum bre- 

 ■1 ' viflimis. Martyn. Cent. g. tab. o. Barbadoes Phyllan-^ 

 ' " ihus with an herbaceous upright ffalky ana the ffower-^^ 

 ...flalks very fhort. ,, .^.-^% . ...;..a: .ti-jr.v''- r-^>--^v---: 

 Phyllanthus {Emblica') foliis pinnatis floriferis,^ 

 caule arboreo, fruftu baccatp. Flon Zeyl, 333. Phyl-- 



• ^ Ian thus with winged leaves bearing flowers y a tree- like 

 flalk, and berry-bearing fruit.:, Nelli-Camarum. Hort/ 



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The other feafon for planting thefe cuttings is about 

 ■ the beginning of Auguft ; at this time they may be 

 -planted in pots, which may be either plunged into 



The firft fort grows naturally upon the rocks qear 

 tlie fea, in all the iflands of the Weft-Indie^, where 

 tKe inhabitants title it Sea-fide Laurel. This is feldom 

 found growing on the land, which bceafions its fcarf 

 city in Europe ; for the roots ftrrlce fo deep into the 

 crevices of the rocks, as to render it almoft imprafti- > 

 qable to tranfplant the plants,' and it is very difficult to 

 'jpropagate by feeds; for unlefs they are fown fooa 

 after they are ripe, they will not grow, and the grea^eft 

 part of the feed proves atoftive, fo that this fort is- , 

 very rare in Europe^ .'..There was formerly a plant of ". 

 this fort !n the gardens at Hampton- court j but this, 

 v/ith many other fin^ plants, have bten deftroycd^ by 



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