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the ignorance of the gardeners. I alfo faw a fine plant 



of this fort in the Amfterdain Garden. 

 This tree grows about fifteen or fixteen feet high ; the 

 leaves come out without any order, which are five or 

 fix inches long, fmooth, and thick ; upon the edges 

 of the leaves the flowers are produced, but efpcci- 

 ally toward the upper part, where they are placed 

 very clofely, fo as almoit to form a fort of border to 

 the leaves \ which, together with the fhining green 

 colour of the leaves, makes a very beautiful appear- 

 ance : the leaves continue green all the year, which 

 renders the plant more valuable. 

 It requires to be placed in a moderate ftove in the 

 winter, otherwife it will not live in England -, but in 

 fummer it may be placed in the open air, in a warm 

 fhekered fuuation. With this rhanagement the plant 

 was in great vigour in the Phyfic Garden at Am- 



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The fccond fort grows naturally in Barbadoes, where 



it is a common plant ; for I have many times had it 

 come up in the tubs of earth brought from thence, 

 with other plants: though this is an annual plant, 

 yet the feeds being cafl out of the capfules when ripe, 

 with an elafticity, is thrown to a confiderable dillance, 

 and this way the plant propagates itfelf in England ; 

 for the feeds being caft into the pots which are placed 

 near it in the flove, the plants come up without far- 

 ther trouble. . . 



This rifes with an herbaceous flalk a foot and a half 

 high, garnifhed with many long winged leaves, com- 

 ■pofed of a great number of oval lobes, of a gray co- 

 lour on their under fide, but of a bright green on 

 their upper j thefe lobes contrail every evening, 

 turning their under fide outward ; on the under fide 

 of the leaves the flowers are produced along the 

 midrib, turning downward -, thefe are fome of them 

 male, and others female, intermixed on the fame 

 plant, having each a beli-fliaped empalement of one 

 leaf, cut into fix fegments at the brim; and being 



. coloured, the title of petals, or corolla, are by fome 

 applied to thern,l)ut otHcFs call them'apetalous flowers. 



^The male flov^ers^ave each'three ftamina, the female 

 having a fingle flyle, fupporting a tf ifid ftigma, and 

 are fucceeded by iroundifti capfules with three cells, 

 each containing one feed/^^he plant ufually flowers 



• from June to OAober, ana the feed ripens after in 



ihe flowery has no flyle, hut is crcvjnti ly frj.^ , 

 fl^aped, reflexcd, hairy fligmas. -Thsgermtn afur-^ard lur^ 

 to an ohhng angular fruit, ccntaimng two paraUd ft J 

 convex on their outflde, plain un the otha-, arj brt-l \ 



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The third fort grows naturally at Malabar, where it 



rifes with a tree-like ftalk to the height of twelve or 



fourteen feet; but in England they do not rife more 



than half that height, fendingP)ut from the fide many 

 ^ patulus branches, which are garniflied with very nar- 

 . row winged lobes ; but as it hath not produced either 

 * flowers or fruit in England, fo I can give no farther J the fecond year the plants will flower, fo if in the 



account of it. ' fpnng fome of the plants are fliaken out but of the 



the top. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the fccond fcftion of 

 Linn^us's fifth clafs, which includes thole plarir^ 

 whofe flowers have five Itamina and two flyfcs Z 

 fl-lgmas. ^ 



We have but one Species In the Englifli crar^^. 

 atprefcnt, viz. ^ 



Phyllis {Nobla) ftipulis dentatis. Prod. Leyd. 02 

 Phyllis with indented flipuU. Buplcuroides qu^' ixn 

 pla nobla Canarienfium. Pluk. Boerh. Ind. alt. i 

 72. Baflard Haris-ear, or Simpla Nobla of the Canaril' 

 This plant grows naturally in the Canary Illands' 

 from whence the feeds were formerly brought to Eng- 

 land. It rifes with a foft flirubby ftalk about two or 

 three feet high, which is feldom thicker than a man's 

 finger, of an herbaceous colour, and full of jcnats, 

 Thefe fend out feveral fmall fide branches toward the 

 top, garniflied with fpear-fliapcd leaves near four 

 inches long, and almoft two broad in the middle, 

 drawing to a point at each end ;' they are of a lucid 

 green on their upper fide, but pale on their under 

 having a ftrong whiti|h midrib, with feveral deep 

 veins running from it to the fides -, the leaves ai^ for 

 the mofl: part placed by threes round the branches, 

 to which they fit clofe. The flowers are produced 

 at the end of the branches, in loofe panicles ; thj 

 are fmall, of an herbaceous colour at their firft ap- 

 pearance, but before they fade, change to a brown 

 or worn-out purple, and are cut into five parts to their 

 bafe, where they are connected, and fall Oif without 

 ^feparating, fo Ihould be termed a flower of oncpe- 

 ::. tal. Thefe fegments are reflexed backward fo as to . 



cover the germen, which is fituated under the flower, 

 ; ^i^d afterward becomes a fhort, turbinated, obtufc, 

 ■ lingular fruit, which fpHts in two parts when ripe, 

 ;,.each containing one feed, flat on the infide, convex 

 on the outfide and angular. This plant flowers in 

 June, and the feeds ripen in autumn. 

 It is propagated by feeds, which muft be fown on a 

 bed of frefh light earth toward the end of March, 

 and the olants will copie qp by the beginning of May; 

 when they are fit to tranfplant, they Ihould be put 

 Into feparate pots, and placed in a fiiady fituation 

 until they have taken root ; after which time they 

 fhould be placed in^ a flieltered fituation, where they 

 may have the morning fun, and in the funimer will 

 require to be frequently watered. In winter they 

 mufl: be fhekered from the froft, but require to 

 have as much free air as pofljble in mild weather; 



- This plant is propagated by feeds, when they can be 

 :.r ^procured from the country where the plants grow 

 '* naturally ; thefe mufl: be fown upon a hot-bed, and 



• when the plants come up and are fit to tranfplant, 

 they fliould be each planted into a leparate fmall pot 



- .filled with light earth, ari^ plunged intb* a hot-bed of 

 ' tanners Kark, being 'careful to fhade and water them 



until they have taken good root i after this, the 

 *-^plants mufl: coriflantly remain iri the bark-fl:ove, and 

 -V be treated in the fame manner as hath been direded 

 '>->:/or many other plants from the fame country, with 

 ■ ■ -^^^ the plant has been maintained feveral years, 

 - but has niade little progrefs. . , .' . ; 



^^ Thcbther forts, which in the former edition of this 

 V c-^ork were added to this genus, are now placed under 



pots and put into the full ground, they will pcrfeft 

 /their feeds much better than thofe which renuia ia 

 : the pots. 



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As thefe plants feldom continue in health above four 

 or five years, it will be proper to raife a fupply of 

 young plants to fucceed tnem, /■ - V^"'^.' 



The plants retain their leaves all the year, which 

 being large and of a ftiinihg ^reen, make a hard- 



fome appearance in winter, in which the beauty 01 it 



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PHYLLIS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 286. Bupleuroides. 

 •"-"Boerh. ind. alt. 71. Valerianella. Dill. Hort. Elth. 



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4.o'5. Simpla Nobla. 

 ^•The CriARACTERs are, 



The empalement of the flower is very fmall, compofed of 

 two leaves fitting on the germen, The flower has five 

 " ^tufe fpearfif aped petals, which turn backward. It hath 

 flve (hort hair-like flamina, which are flaccid, terminated 

 hy oblong fummits.,: The germen^ which is fituated under 



confifts, for the flowers have ngae. . , , 

 PH Y S A L I S. Lin! Gen. Plant. 223. Alkekengl 

 Tourn. Inft. R. H. 150. tab. 64. Winter^Cherry. 



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The flower hath a fmall fwelling permanent ej)tpahme>it 

 of one leaf, which is five-cornered^ and cut at the to^ 

 into five acute points. The flower kath cm wbeel-Jhcf^i 

 petal, with a floort tube and a large bnm, wbich isfiv^- 

 cornered and plaited. It has -Jive fmall aivlfijapcd p- 

 mina which join together, terminated by acS fumrmts 

 and a roundifh germen fupporting a flcnder fiyle^ cro%ru ' 

 hy an ohtufe ftigma. The germen afteruoard turn to ' 

 almoft globular berry with two cells, inclofed in thelargi 

 inflated empalement, and is filled with com^rejfed kidney- 

 fB aped feeds. 



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