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pentine of the {hops was formerly taken, but there 

 is little of that now imported, but tliat from fomc of 

 the cone-bearing trees is generally fubllitutcd for it. 

 The fifch fort is the common Mullick-tree, which is 

 better known in the gardens by its Latin title of Len- 

 tifcLis. This grows naturally in Spain, Portugal, and 

 Italy, and being evergreen, the plants have been pre- 

 ferved in the Englifh gardens to adorn the green- 

 houfe in winter. This in its native countries riies to 

 the height of eighteen or twenty feet, covered with a 

 gray bark, fending out many branches, which have a 

 reddidi brown bark, and are garniihed with winged 

 leaves, compofed of three or four pair of imall fpear- 

 fliaped lobes, without an odd one at the end. The 

 midrib which fuftains the lobes, has two narrow bor- 

 ders or v/ings, running from lobe to lobe ; thefe lobes 

 are of a lucid green on their upper fide, but pale on 

 their under. The male fiowers come out in loofe 

 clufters from the fides of the branches ; they are of 

 an herbaceous colour, appearing in May, and foon 

 fall oft. Thefe are generally upon different plants 

 from the fruit, which alfo grows in clufters, and are 

 fmall berries, of a black colour when ripe, 

 The plants of this fort are generally propagated by 

 laying down of their young branches, which, if pro- 

 perly managed, will put out roots in one year, and 

 may then be cut off from the old plants, and each 

 tranfplantfd into feparate fmall pots. Thefe muft be 

 fheltered in winter, and in fummcr placed abroad in 

 a fheltered fituation, and treated in the fame way as 

 other hardy kinds of green-houfe plants. It may al- 

 fo be propagated by feeds in the fame way as the Tur- 

 pentine-tree ; but if the feeds are not taken fromi trees 

 growing in the neighbourhood of the male, they will 

 not grow ; and if they are kept out of the ground 

 till fpring, the plants rarely appear till the fpring fol- 

 lowing. When thefe plants have obtained ftrength, 

 fome of them may be turned out of the pots, and 

 planted againft warm walls; where, if their branches 

 are trained againft the walls, they will endure the 

 ordinary winters very well, and with a little Ihelter in 

 fevere winters they may be preferved. ' 



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r^The fixth fort: grows naturally about Marfeilles, and 

 . !-, in fome other places in the South of France, where it 

 ■: rifes to the fame height as the former from which 

 ';'Tt differs, in having one or two pair of lobes more on 

 . . each leaf, and the lobes are much narrower, and of a 

 paler colour. This difference holds in the "plants 

 which are propagated by feeds, fo may be pronounced 

 a diftindt fpecies. It is propagated in the fame way 

 as the former fort, and is equally hardy. 

 The feventh fort grows naturally in many of the 

 iflands in the Weft-Indies, where it rifes to a middling 

 .%.l!ature, dividing into many branches, which are co- 

 v.l vered'with apurplifti bark, and garniihed with winged 

 f;-, leaves, compofed of two or three pair of fpear-fhaped, 

 ,T-,.oyal, acute-pointed lobes, terminated by an odd one ; 

 /" thefe are an inch and three quarters long, and near an 

 inch broadj running out in acute po|nts j they are very 

 thin and tender, and have long foot-ftalks. The niale 

 , / flowers come out at' the end of the'branches ; they are 

 "'"difpbfed in'a'fingle"racernus (or long bunch) about 

 three inches lohgV'they areof apurplilh colour, and 

 have yellow fummits. The fruit grows upon feparate 

 trees from the m^ile flowers ; they are fhaped like the 

 ' ' nuts of Piftachia, but are fmaller and not eatable. This 

 ;.; 'was fent me by Dr. Creffy from Antigua. " ^ 

 ■;; The eighth fort grows naturally in Jamaica, and alfo 

 * " in moft of the" other iflands in the Weft-Indies, where 

 . ,. it rifes to the height of thirty or forty feet, covered 

 ^., with a loofe brown bark, which falls ofFin large pieces ; 

 ;ilth«e_fteiTis are .large, and divide into many branches to- 

 ,r:,ward the top, which are crooked andunfightly 5 thefe 

 1-', ^r^ garniflied with winged leaves, compofed of five 

 or fix pair of oblong, oval, fmooth lobes, abou; four 



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. inches k)ng and two broad, terminated by an odd one. 



The flowers come out at the end of the branches, in 



: Jong loofe bunches of a yellowilh colour -, thefe grow 



on different, tree^^ or on different parts of the fame 



, tree from the fruit, which alfo hangs in long bunches, ( 



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and is about the fi/c of a mi;ldling Pea, haviri^r ^ ^|^,r 

 Ikin covcrinj^a nut about tli-fize of a coininun CK 

 ry-ttone, and of the fame co!t>i:r. 

 Thefe two tiecs are tender, lo will not thrive in thr 

 country, unlels rhcy arc kept ii-i warm itovc Thcv 

 arc propagated by feeds, uh;,h nnul btr taken froi, 

 luch trees as grew ir. the nciohbourhood of thcnu\-'' 

 othcrwile they will not grow, as I have too often foi'nd 

 true. Thefe fi^ould be fov.n in pots iilled with light 

 earth, and plunged into a good hot-bed of tannen 

 bark •, and when the plants are come up fie to re 

 move, they fliould be each planted in a fi-para^- fmall 

 pot, and plunged into a frelh hct-bed, treating them 

 in the iame way as the other tender plants hoa^ the 

 fame countries, and in the autumn they Ihouldberc 

 moved into the ftove, plunging the pots into the tan- 

 bed ; and during the winter they muithave but little 

 water, efpecially if _ they caft their leaves, which is 

 generally the cafe after the firft winter -, for the youna 

 plants generally retain their leaves the whole year 

 but afterward they are deftitute of leaves for two 

 months, in the latter part of the winter. Thefe plants 

 fhould conftantly remain in the ftove, but in warm 

 weather they muft have a large lliare of air admitted 

 to them. 



PISUM. Tourn. Inft. R. H.394. tab. 215. Lin. 

 Gen. Piant. yyg. [Some are of opinion, that this 

 plant takes its name from the city Pifa, where it an- 

 ciently grew in plenty -, others derive it from ur;^, 

 which comes from -arMco, to fall; becaufe, if this 

 plant be not fupported, it will fall to the ground.] 

 Pea; in French, Pots, 



The Characters are, 

 The flower hath a one-leaved permanent empahnent cut 

 into five points^ the two upper being hroadejl •, it hath f cur 

 petals^ and is of the kitterfly kind, "The jlandard is broad, 

 heart-Jhaped^ reflexed^ and indented^ ending in a point. The 



■ two wings are fljorter,, rcundiflo^ ^nd clofe together ; tie 

 keel is comprejfed^ mocn-jhaped^ and fljorter than the wings, 



^ // hath ten ftamina in two bodies^ the upper fingle cm is 



. p>lain and azvUfloaped^ the ether nine are cylindrical belcj} 

 the middle, awl-Jhaped above and cut \ thefe are jcivfd 

 together, and are terminated by rcundififum:mts. It has an 

 oblgng compreffed germen, with a triangulcr rifmg ftyk^ 



' crowned by a hairy oblong ftigma, Thegermen afterjoard 

 becomes a large, ^ long, taper pod, terminated by a jhaq 

 rifing point, opening with two valves, having one nw cf 

 roundifh feeds. ' ' - 



This genus of plants is ranged in the third feftion of 

 Linnseus's feventeenth clafs, which contains thofe 

 plants whofe flowers have ten ftamina joined in two 

 bodies. ■- :*^ 



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, PisuM {Sativum) ftipulis inferne rotundans crenatis, 

 petiolis teretibus, pedunculismultifloris. Hort.Upfal. 

 215,'' Pea whofe lower ftipuU are roundif: "^ -•-'-'"^ 



foot'Jlalks 



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Pifum 



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- hortenfe majus, flore fruduque albo. C. B. P. 34^- 

 ; Greater Garden Fea with a white flower and fruit, 



2. PisuM {Humile) caule erefto ramofo, foliis bijugatis, 



■ foliolis rotundioribus. Pea with an ereB branching fidk, 

 and leaves having two pair of round lobes* '^Pifum hu- 



firmftalk. .^..^ ^ _ ^ .. . ^. 



3. PisuM {Umhellaiuin) _ j^\pu\i% qiiadrifidis. acutis, pe- 



dunculis multlfloris terminalibus. Pea with four- 

 pointed acute ft ipula, and foot-ftalks bearing many flow:rs^ 

 which terminate theftalks. Pifum umbellatum. C. L. r- 



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foot-ftalks 



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fide, an angular ft a Ik, arrow -pointed fi 



puLe, and foot-ftalks bearing many flowers, 

 5. PisuM {Americanum) cauTe angularo procumbente, 

 folioHs inferioribus lanceolatis acute dentatis, fummis 

 faeittatis. • Pea w'^"- - '- --'-''- ^^^^' ^^'^'" 



'ailing flalk 

 r leaves are fpear-fljaped and fharply indent^ 

 thofe 



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Horn Pea, 



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