

 \ 



I 



H E 



they v/cre fown. When the plants appear in the 

 fpring, the ground ftiould be hoed over to Ciit up 

 the weeds \ and where the plants are too clofe, fome 

 fhould be cut up, to allow room for the others to 

 grow, in the iame manner as is praftiied for Car 

 rots and Parfncps, leaving them at the firft time of 

 hoeing fix or eight inchres afunder, for fear of acci- 

 dents ; but at the fecond time of hoeing they may be 

 feparated to a foot and a half diftance, or more. Af- 

 ter this, the plants will require no other culture but 

 to keep them clean from weeds, fo that as foon as the 

 vv'eeds appear, if the ground is fcuffled over with a 

 Dutch hoe in dry weather, it may be done for a fmall 

 ' expence, and thereby the ground will be kept clean. 

 If this is begun early in the fpring before the weeds 

 are large, they will foon die, and by repeating it two 

 or three times at proper intervals, during the fpring, 

 the ground will be made clean ; and when the plants 

 ipread out their leaves to cover the ground, they will 

 prevent the growth of weeds. 



In autumn the leaves of thefe plants decay, then the 

 ground Ihould be made clean, and in the fpring, be- 

 fore the plants begin to put up their new leaves, the 

 ground ihould be either digged between the plants, or 

 be hoed and made clean again j the fecond year after 

 the plants come up, many of the ftrongeft will pro- 

 duce flowers and feeds, but the third year moft of 

 them will flower. The feeds of thefe fhould be care- 

 fully gathered when ripe, and not permitted to fcat- 

 ter, left they Ihould grow to injure the old plants. 

 ^ The roots of thefe plants will remain many years 

 without decaying ; and I am informed, that the old 

 roots of the true Rhubarb are much preferable to 

 the young ones, ^ They delight in a rich foil, not 

 too dry, nor over moift 5 and where there is a good 

 depth for their roots to run down in fuch land, their 

 leaves will be very large, and their roots will grow to 



a great fize. 

 ' The firfl: fort is now frequently cultivated in gardens 

 : for the foot-ftalks of their leaves, which are peeled 



* ^ and made into tarts in the fpring : it is alfo kept in 



gardens, to fupply the Ihops with the roots, which are 



^ lifed in medicine. 



The true Rhubarb is now fown in many gardens, and 

 may probably fucceed fo well here in time, as that a 

 fufficient quantity of that valuable drug may be raifed, 

 to fupply our confumption. 



RHEX^IA. Qron. Flon Virg. 41. Lin. Gen. Plant. 423. 

 The Characters are, - - ' — 



; . ^he empalemmt of the flower is permanent, oblongs tu- 

 huhusy and of one leaf fwelling below ^ but divided into 



'' four parts at the brim. The flower has four roundifh pe- 

 tals inferted in the empalement^ which fpread open. It hath 



* ' eight flender flannna which are inferted in the empalementy 

 , taminatcd by JecBnng furrowed fummits^ which are nar- 

 row ^ cbtufe^ and moveable. Z. It has a roundifh gerhen^ 



' fupporting a declining ftyle the length of the ftanrina, 



'^' crowned by a thick oblong fligma. J'hegermen afterward 



becomes a roundifh cdpfule with four cells in the fwollen 



' 'empatmenf^'openW^witb four valves^^mS' filled with 



T 





' ''roundifh feeds. - 

 \ .This genus of plants is ranged in the firfl: fedion of 

 ■ 'I_.innceus's eighth clafs, which includes thofe j^ants 

 '■ w^hofe flowers have eight ftamina and one fl:yle. 



; ■ The Species are. 



^t 



-1.^*4 « 



t 



' L 



trflHEXfA {Virginica) foliis feflilibus ferratis calycibus 

 glabris. Flor. Virg. 41. Rhexia withfmooth empatemmts^ 



"^ and fawcd leaves fitting clofe to the flalks. Lyfimachia 



'" non pappofa Virginiana, tubcraria^ foliis hirfutis, flore 



tctrapetalo rubello. Pluk. Phyt. tab. 262. f. 8. Vir- 



ginian Loofejtrife without down^ having a hairy leaf like 



Tubaariay with a red flower having four petals. 



•2. -Rhexia {Mariana) foliis ciliatis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 



." 34^. Rhexia with fine hairy leaves: Lyfimachia non 

 pappofa, terras Mariatias, leptoneuros, flore trepetalo 



'- rubello, folio & caule hirfutis ferruginea hifpidis. 

 Pluk. Phyt. 428. f. I. Loofeftrife of Maryland having 

 no down^ but a reddifh flower with four petals^ and a leaf 

 avdjtalk covered with iron-coloured hairs. 



H 



ginla, from whence he fent the feeds to England^ 

 which fucceeded in feveral gardens. This rifes with 

 an erecT: ftalk near a foot and a half high, which is 

 four-cornered and hairy, garnilhed withfpear-fliaped 

 hairy leaves about two inches long, and half an inch 

 broad, which are entire, and placed oppofite. The fl:alk 

 has tv/o foot-ftalks coming out from the fide oppofite at 

 the upper joint, and is terminated by two other •, thefe 

 each fuftain two or three red flowers with heart-ftiapcd 

 petals, which fpread open in form of a crofs. Thefe 

 appear in June, but I have not feen any feeds pro- 

 duced here. 



The fecond fort grows naturally in Maryland, from 

 whence I received the feeds. This fends up an ereft 

 ftalk about ten inches high, garnifhed with fpcar- 

 fhaped leaves about an inch long, and a third part of 

 an inch broad, fet on by pairs ; and from every 

 joint of the ftalk comes out two fliort flioots oppofite, 

 garnifhed with fmall leaves of the fame fiiape as the 

 other; the ^vhole plant is thick, fet with ftingfng 

 iron-coloured hairs. The ftalk divides at the top into 

 two foot-ftalks, (preading from each other, having 

 one reddifli flower on each \ thefe have four heart- 

 ftiaped petals, which fpread open like the other. 

 It flowers about the fame time as the firft, but fel- 

 dom produces feeds here. Thefe plants are propa- 

 gated by feeds, which muft be procured from the 

 places where they grow naturally. If the feeds ar- 

 rive before the fpnng, 'and are fown foon after th^y 

 arrive in pots filled with good frefl^ earth, and placed 

 under a garden frame to guard them from froft, the 

 plants will come up the following fpring •, but when 

 the feeds arc fown in the fpring, the plants rarely 

 cpmc up the firft year. When the plants come up 

 ■ and are fit to remove, part of them ftiould be planted 

 in ah eaft border, where they may have only the 

 morning fun, and the others may be planted into, 

 pots, that they may be ftieltered under a frame in 

 winter, for they are often deftroyed by fevere froft, 

 though they will live abroad in the common winters 

 very well ; the fecond year the plants will flower, and 

 with care they may be continued three or four years. 



RHINANTHUS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 658. Pedi- 

 cularis fpecies. Tourn. Inft. 171. Elephas. Tourn. 

 Cor. 48. tab. 482. Rattle, or Loufewort. 

 - The Characters are. 



The flower hath a permanent empalcment of one leaf^ 

 which is roundiflj^ comprejfedy and blown up. It hath one 

 rin^ent petal) with a cylindrical tube the length of the em- 



^ pdlament^' iompreffed at the bafe^ but opening at the top. 



f The upper lip is hooded^ compreffedy and indented at the 



'^point-j the lower Up is plain, fpreading^ and cut into three 

 •obtufe fegmehts'at the point. It has four ftamina, which 



' jorefhut up in the upper lip, two of which are fhorter 



^than the other ^ terminated by hairy incumbent fummits^ 

 iind an Wat compfejjfed germen fupporting a flender ftyle, 



-Jituated "with the ftamina^ crowned by art inflexed obtufe 

 fligma. The germen afterward turns to an oval com- 

 preffed capfule with two cells^ opening on the Jide^ and 

 filled with compreffed feeds. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond feftion 

 of Linnaeus's fourteenth clafs, which includes thofe 

 plants whofe flowers have two long and two fliorter 

 ftamina and the feeds are lodged in a capfule. 



1. Rhinanthus {Crifta galli) corollarum labio fuperl* 



- ore compreflib, breviore. Flor. Lap. 248. Rhinanthus 

 'With a floorter compreffed upper lip. Pedicularis pra- 

 tenfis lutca,vel crifta galli. C. B. P, 163. Yellow Mea- 

 dow Loufewort, yellow Rattle, or CocKs-comb. ' 



2. Rhinanthus [Orientalis) corollarum labio fuperiorc 

 fubulato incurvo. Lin. Sp. Plant. 603. Rhinanthus 

 with an awl-floaped incurved upper lip. Elephas Orien- 

 talis, flore magno, probofcide incurva. Tourn. Cor, 

 48. Eaftern Elephanfs-head^ with a large flower and an 



incurved trunk. 



3. Rhinanthus {Elephas) corollarum labio fuperiorc 



- fubulato erefto. Prod. Leyd. 298. Rhinanthus with an 



'4'^ -■'-'' I 



^ 



•/-/ 



Elephas Italica, flore mag- 



Thc firft fart was difcovered by* Mr. Banifter in Vir- I phant's-head. 



no, probofcide furrcfta. Tourn. Cor. 48. Italian Ele- 



w, 



large / 

 II I 



The 



'./ - 



!■-' 



- *-- 



- -.- 



