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hio-h, but divides into branches by pairs from the 

 bottom, which fpread aiunder'. The leaves are very 

 Imall, the flowers come out finglc from the v/ings of 

 the leaves \ they have hairy cylindrical empalements, 

 out of which the petals of the flower do but juft 

 peep, fo are not obvious at any difl:ance. The whole 

 plant is very clammy to the touch. As this plant 

 makes no figure, fo it is only kept for variety. 

 Thefe plants are eafily propagated by feeds, which 

 fhould be fown wliere the plants arc to remain, and 

 will require no other care but to keep them clean from 

 weeds, and thin them v/here thev are too clofe. If 

 the feeds are fown in autumn, or are permitted to fcat- 

 ter, the plants will come up without care. 

 S A POT A. Plum. Nov. Gen. 43. tab. 4. Acras. Lin. 

 Gen. Plant. 438. The Mammee Sapota. 



The Characters are, 

 ^he flovjer has a permanent empalement compofed of five 

 oval leaves y which are acute -pointed and cre£l. It has 

 five roundijh heart-Jhaped petals^ vjhich are conne£fed at 

 their bafe^ and end in acute points ; and fix fijort ftami- 

 na the length of the tube, terminated by arrow-pointed 

 fummitSy with an oval germcn fupporting a fhort ftyle, 

 crowned by an obtufe Jiigma. T^hc germen afterward be- 

 comes an oval fucculent fruit .^ inckfijig one or two Dval 

 hard nuts or ftones. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftion of 

 Linn^us's fixth clafs, which includes thole plants 

 whofe flowers have fix flamina and one flyle. 

 The Species are, 



1. Sapota {Achras) foiiisoblongo-ovatis, fruftibus tur- 

 binatis glabris. Sapota with oblong oval leaves^ and 



fmooth turbinated fruit, Sapota fruftu turbinato mi- 

 nori. Plum. Nov. Gen. 43. Sapota with a fmaller tur- 

 binated fruit, 



2. Sapota {Maimnofa) foliis lanceolatis, fruflu maxi- 

 itioovato, feminibus ovatis utrinque acutis. Sdpota^ 



• uith fpear-fhaped leaves, a very large oval fruity and oval 

 feeds which are pointed at both endsV-'^^ * 'i^^'^'V^^'"^' ^ 

 The name of Sapota is what thefe fruit are called by 



'" the natives of America, to which fome add the ap- 

 pellation of Mammee ; buf there is no otlier name 

 iven to thefe fruits by the Enelifli, fince they have 

 ettled in tlie Weft-Indiesi'Io'far as I can learn. '^^' 

 ^" The firfl: of thefe trees is common abbut Panama, 

 and fome other places in the Spanifh Wefl:-Indies, but 



' ii not to be found in many of the Englilh fettlements 

 in America. The fecond fort is very common in 

 Jamaica, Barbadoes, and mofl of the iflands in the 

 Weft-Indies, where the trees are planted in gardens 

 for their fruit, which is by many perfons greatly ef- 



' teemed. 



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fecond fort grows in America to the height of 



thirty-five or forty feet, having a ftrait trunk, cover- 

 ed with an Afh-coloured bark. The branches are 



produced on every fide, fo as to form a regular head ; 

 ' thefe are befet with leaves,' which are a foot in length, 

 and near three inches broad in the middle, drawing 

 to a point at each end. The flowers which are pro- 

 duced from the branches, are of a creain colour; 

 '- . when thefe fall aWay, tliey are fucceeded by TTarge 

 oval or top-lhaped fruit, which are covered with a 

 ^- browniili Ikin, under which is a thick pulp of a ruf- 

 'fet colour, very lufcious, called natural marmelade, 

 . from its likenefs to marmelade of Quinces. 



As thefe trees are natives of very warm countries, 

 ' they cannot be preferved in England, unlefs they are 



■ placed in the warmeft ftoves and managed with great 



■ .care. They are propagated by planting the ftones, 

 7 but as thefe will not keep good long out of the ground, 

 ^ ihe fureft method to obtain thefe plants is, to Have 



the ftones planted in tubs of earth, as foon as they are 

 taken out of the fruit, and the tubs placed in a fitua- 

 tion where they may have the morning fun, and kept 

 duly watered. When the plants come up, they muft 

 be fccured from vermin and kept clear from weeds, 

 but fhould remain in the country till they are about 

 a foot high, wK^n they may be Ihipped for England; 

 but they ftiould be brought over in the fummer, 



and, if poffibk,' time enough for the plants to I 



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make good roots after they arrive. Durincr their n if 

 fage they muft have fome water, while the^'y continue 

 in a warm chmate ; but as they come into colder 

 weather, they ftiould have very little moifture • and 

 they muft be fecured from fait water, which will foon 

 dcftroy the plants if it gets at them. 



When thefe plants arrive in England, theyfliould be 

 carefully taken out of the tubs, preferving fome eardi 

 to their roots, and planted into pots filled with frcfli 

 earth, and then plunged into a moderate hot-bed of 

 tanners bark, obfcrving, if the weather is hot, to 

 ftiade the glafles with mats every day, to fcrecn'the 

 plants from the fun, until they have taken new root • 

 obferying alfo not to water them too much at firft' 

 efpecially if the earth in which they come over is 

 moift ; becaufe too much v/ater is very injurious to 

 the plants before they are well rooted, but afterward 

 they muft be frequently refreftied with water in warm 

 weather ; and they muft have a large fhare of air ad- 

 mitted to them, otherwife their leaves will be infefted 

 with infefts and become foul ; in which cafe they muft 

 be wafhed with a fponge to clean them, without which 

 the plants will not thrive. 



In the winter thefe plants muft be placed in the 

 warmeft ftove, and in cold weather they Ihould have 

 but little water given to them, though they muft be 

 frequently refreftied when the earth is dry ; efpecially 

 if they retain their leaves all the winter, they will re- 

 . quire a greater ftiare of water than when they drop 

 their leaves ;^ fo that this muft be done with difcre- 

 tion, according to the ftatc in which the plants are. 

 As thefe plants grow in magnitude, they fhould be 

 ftiifted into pots of a larger fize, but they muft not be 

 over-potted, for that will infallibly deftroy them." 



SARRACENA. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 657. tab. 476. 

 ■ Lin. Gen. Plant. 578. The Sidefaddle-flower. 



:V*''Thc Characters are, 



f The fiower has a double empalement -, the under is" com- 



^pofed of three fmalloval leaves which fall away ; the upper 



has five large coloured leaves y which are permanent, h 



has five oval inflexed petals which inclofe the fiaminaj 



whofe tails are oblong, oval^ and ere£l, and a great num- 



^ her of fmall ftamina^ terminated by target-fiaped fummits. 



-In the center isjltuatei^a roundiflj germcn, fupporting a 

 'Jhort cylindrical fiyle, n-cwned by a target-fijapcd five- 

 cornered Jtigma covering theftamina, a?7d is permanent. 

 The gcrmen afterward becomes^ a roundifij capfule with five 

 cells, filled with fmall feeds. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedion'of 

 Linnasus's thirteenth clafs, which includes thofe plants 

 whofe flowers have many ftamina and one ftyle. 

 The title of this genus was given to it by Dr. Tour- 

 nefort, in honour of Dr. Sarrazin, a curious botanift, 

 who fent this and many other rare plants from Cana- 

 da to the Paris Garden. '- ' 



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' The Species are, './: ' ''-. 



Sarracena {Purpurea) foliis gibbis. Hort. Cliff. 

 427. Sarracena with gibbous leaves, Sarracena Cana- 

 denfis, foliis cavis & auritis. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 

 6^j. Sarracena of Canada, with hollowed and eared leaves. 

 2. Sarracena (F/^t;^) foliis ftriftis. Lin. Sp[ Plant. 

 510. Sarracena with clofed leaves, Sarracena foliis Ion- 

 ' gioribus & anguftioribus.' Cateft). Hift. Carol.' 2. p. 



69. Sarracena with longer and narrower leaves. 



The firft fort grows naturally upon bogs in moft parts 



of North America ; this hath a ftrong fibrous root, 

 which ftrikes deep into the foft earth, from which 

 arife five, fix, or feven leaves, in proportion to the 

 ftrength of the plant ; thefe are about five or fix inches 

 long, hollow like a pitcher, narrow at their bafe, but 

 fwell out large at the top ; their outer fides are round- 

 ed, but on their inner fide they are a little comprefT- 

 ed, and have a broad leafy border running longitu- 

 dinally the whole length of the tube ; and to the 

 * rounded part of the leaf tJiere is on the top a large 

 appendage or e_ar ftanding eredt, of a brownrfti co- 

 lour ; this furrounds the outfide of the leaves about 

 two thirds of the top, it is eared at both ends, and 

 waved round the ^border. From the center of the 



root, between the leaves, arifes a ftrong, round, na- 



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