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ftouW be tranfplantcd to another hot- bed to bring 

 them forward, obferying to {hade thenn from tliefun 

 till they have taken new root •, after which they (hould 

 be treated in the fame way as other tender exotic 

 plants, and the beginning of July they may be tranf- 

 planted out upon a warm border, or into pots filled 

 with light rich earth, and fhaded from the fun till 

 they have taken new root ; after which they will re- 

 quire to be duly watered in dry weather, and kept 

 dean From weeds. As thefe plants perfe6b their feeds 

 every autumn, they may be eafily preferved. 

 The fourth fort grows naturally in Mexico, from 

 whence the feeds were fent to Paris fome years pafl:, 

 arid they have been fent to Spain many years fince ; 

 for there are growing in fome of the gardens, feveral 

 trees which are nov/ upward of twenty feet high ; and 

 I have been credibly informed, there are fome of the 

 trees which produce male, and others female flowers 

 pnly ; but as the plant in the Chelfea Garden has not 

 as yet produced any flowers which havie opened per-, 

 fcftly, fo I cannot from my own obfervations deter- 

 mine this. _/ ,, - .; , - . 



The plant hath a ftrong woody ftem as large as a 



man's leg, which fends out many irregular branches, 



garniflied with oval fpear-fliaped leaves fix inches 



long, and almoft three broad, having large midribs, 



which are of a purple colour when the leaves are fully 



rownj the flowers are produced at the bafe of the 



bot-ftalks of the leaves, in a raccmus like thofe of 



. the other fpecies ; but as thofe on the plant in the 



Chelfea Garden were jproduced late in the feafon, fb 



/ they dropped oflf before they opened. ' *-" '"-'-' , 



." This fpecies may be propagated by cuttings during 



"- the fummer months, which ftiould be planted in pots 



filled with light earth and plunged into a[ moderate 



hot-bed, covering the pots with hand-glafl^es to ex- 



' elude the air from the cuttings, and duly fhading 



thern^ from the fun ; in about five or fix weeks tliey 



"' will put"but roots, when they may be each planted 



into a feparate fmall pot, and plunged into the bed 



'again, fhading them daily till they have taken new 



root J then they fhould be gradually inured to the open 



'air, wKere they may remain till the end of Septem- 



"Befrwhen they mufl be removed into a moderate ftove 



for the^winter feafon, for they will not live through 



the winter in a grecn-houfe, unlefs it is a very warm 



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P I E R C E A. Solanoides. Tourn. Adt. Par. 1 706. ^- 

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^he flower has no petals •, the empalement which inclofes 



■ the farts of generation is compofed of four oblongs ovaU 



coloured leases y which are by fome called petals, A'Aiath 



\. four ftaminay which^J^and ere^ and clofe together^ termi- 



- nated by fmall fummiis. In the center is Jituated a large 



foundifh gerr/ien, fupportmg a fhort fiyle^ crowned by an 



' ' cbtufe flij[ma. The ^ermen afterward turns to^ a roundifh 



. berry fitting upon the reflex ed empalement^ having one cell^ 



finclcfinga rough feed of the fame form. ~ ' -^■■"----^ -. 



"/ T have taken the freedom of infcribing this genus of 



plants to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, 



;* v/ho is not only a great encourager of botanical ftu- 



dies, but greatly fkillcd in thefcience himfelf. .-^..^s' 

 .; Tournefort firfl placed this with the Phytolacca, mak- 

 . Jng it a fpecies of that genus ; but as the flowers of 

 .|^ Phytolacca have five petals or leaves to the empale- 

 ; ment, and ten flamina, and the flowers of this have 

 !Ut four petals and eight ftamina, and the berries of 

 . hytolacca have ten cells,, and thefe have but one, fo 

 ^they could not with propriety be joined together •, 

 ^therefore upon mature confideration Tournefort con- 

 ,. ftituted a new genus of it, by the title of Solanoides, 

 an^ publifhed the characters in the Memoirs of the 

 Academy of Scioices for the year 1706; but as all 

 thofe titles of plants which end with oides, have been 

 by later botanifts changed, fo I fliall join this to the 

 firlt feftion of Linnseus's eighth clafs, who has fup- 

 ofed this to be the fame with Plumier'.s Rivinia, fo 

 ,e has applied that tide to Jhis plant, and believed 

 Plumier was mifl:aken wKen^hedrew eight flamina to 



the flower, j but Plumier's Rivinia is totally different 



fiom tliis plant, and tho flowers of it have e^ht ^ 

 mina as Plum'ierhas " ' * 



The Spccies are, 



PiKRCEA 



rcprelented it. 



{Glabra) foliis ovato-!anceclatis glabris. 

 Piivcea -^ith oval^ fpearfl:aped, fmcoth leaves. Sola- 

 noides American.1, circcea; folii:s ^.iabris. Tourn, Aft. 

 Par, 1706. Jmericun Solanoides wi^h fmocth Enchanters 

 Nighifhade leaves, 

 2. PiERciiA iftomentofa) foliis cordatis pubefccntibus. 

 Viercca with heart -floaped dc-jorvy leaves, Solanoides Ame- 



foliis cancfcentibus. Tourn. Adl. Pan 



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1 706. 



Ameritan Solanoides with kocry leaves like E;:- 

 chanters Nightfbade. - , , 



Thefe plants grcv/ naturally in incft of the iflands in 

 the Wefl-Indics, but the firft is the moft commoa 

 there. Thisrifes with a flender herbaceous flalk three" 

 or four feet high, and by age becomes a little ligneous 

 at the bottom. It divides into many branches which 

 are herbaceous^ and have angles j thefe are garniflied 

 with oval fpear-fliaped leaves near four inches long, 

 and two broad in the middle; they are of a bright 

 green, and have flencler foot-fialks an inch and a 

 half broad. The foot-flalks of the flowers come out 

 from' "the fide of the branches, at the bafe cif the 

 foot-Ilalks of the leaves •, they are from four to five 



long, fuftaining a great number^of fmall v^hite 



' flowers, ranged along the upper part on both fides. 



' Thefe are fuccec2ed by fmall red berries f»dl of a re3. 



^ juice, inclofin'e: one hard feed of the fam.e form. 



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There is a fucceflion of flowers, upon this^plant moft 

 ^ part of the -year, wliich are fucceeded by berries ri- 

 ' penrng after each other, fo thatf the plants are feldom 

 , deftkute of them ; and although the flov/eri make buff 

 . a fmall appearance, yet the long bunches of bright red 



lierries, hanging on all the branches great part of the 



year, have a fine'efltdtv^ ;• - '■/-.--- ■ ^ . 



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The fecond fort erows taller than the firft, and the 

 branches grow more eredl; the leaves are fmaller, 

 heart-fliaped, and covered with flioirt Hairy downi 

 the fpikes of flowers arc not {o long, and the flowers 

 are not fo clofely placed together, and have longer 

 fbot-flalks. This continues flowering and producing 

 ripe fruit in the fame manner as the other, mofl part of 

 the year. 

 . Thefeplants arepropagated by feeds, which fliould be 

 lown foon after they are ripe, for if they are kept long 

 / out of the ground they feldom grow the fame year. 

 j^.^They fliould be fown in pots filled with light earth,^ 

 . and plune;ed into a n^ioderate hot-bed ; and when the 

 plants come up, they fliould be kept clean from weeds, 

 - and gently watered as the earth becotfies dry. When 

 the plants are two inches high, they fiiould be each' 

 planted in a fmall halfpenny pot filled with light eajthj 

 and plun2;ed into a moderate hot-bed, obferving: to 

 .. iliade them till they havetaken nev/rootj afteV which 

 "A they muft be treated in the fame way as other ekbtififc 

 ...plants, by admitting frefli air to them daily, according 

 v'to the warmth of the feafon, and giving them water 

 ' as often as they require it. -^ Wh^en_ the plants have 

 . obtained fireno;th, they fl:iould be removed into the 



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; "imifl conftan'tly remain, for they are too tender to 



•thrive in the open air in England in the wanTiefl ^aa 

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/The juice of the berries of thefe plants will flain pa-. 

 per and linen of a bright red colour, and I have made 

 . -many experiments with it to colour flowers, which have 



vfuccceded extremely well 

 /^following manner.^ I preffcd out the juic 



.^rnes, arid mixed it with common water, putting it into a 



phial, fliaking it v/ell together for fome time, till the 



! .v^aterwas thoroushly tinned ; then I cut off the flow'ers 



'- .which v/ere lufl: fully blown, and placed their fl:alks 



.- into the phial, and in one night the flowers have been 



finely variegated with red. The fldwers which I made 



the experiments 9n,\yere theTuberpfe and the double 



white Narcifllift,. 





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