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IS divided into three almoft equal parts -, tliey arc of 

 a pale flefh colour, and appear in July, and the feeds 

 rijx^n in autumn. 



The fccond fort grows naturally in Crete ; this rifes 

 with a Ihrubby ftalk about two feet high, dividing in- 

 to feveral (lender ligneous branches, which are gar 

 nifhed with fmall, (liff, oval leaves, ending in acute 

 points, which emit an aromatic odour when bruifed. 

 The flowers grow in thick whorls round the italks 

 toward the top ^ they have fiiort, hairy, five-pointed 

 empalemcnts ; the tube of the petal is longer than the 

 cup, and the flower is fliaped like that of the former, 

 but it is larger and of a brighter red colour. This 

 plant flowers in June, July, and Auguft, but rarely 

 ripens its feeds in England. 



The third fort is well known in the gardens by the 

 title of Winter Savory j this is a perennial plant, 

 which grows naturally in the fouth of France and 

 Italy, but is here cultivated in gardens both for food 

 and phyfic. This hath a fhrubby, low, branching 

 ftalk ; the branches rife about a foot high ; they are 

 ligneous, and are garniflied with two very narrow 

 leaves about an inch long at each joint ; they are iTiifi-", 

 and fland oppofite ; from the bafe of thefe come out 

 a few fmall leaves in clufters. The flowers grow from 

 the wings of the leaves upon fhort foot-ftalks ; they 

 are fhaped like thofe of the firfl: fort, but are larger and 

 of a paler colour. Thefe appear in June, and are 

 fucceeded by feeds which ripen in autumn, but the 

 plants will continue feveral years, efpecially if they 

 are planted in a poor dry foil. 



The fourth fort grows naturally in North America -, 

 this hath a perennial root, but the ftalk is annual, 

 and rifes about a foot and a half high ; it is flifF, an- 

 gular, and branches out toward the top. The leaves 

 are ftiff, fpear-fhaped, and pointed •, they are about 

 an inch and a half long, and a quarter of an inch 

 broad in the middle, pointed at both ends, and have 

 a flirong fcent of Pennyroyal ; the ftalks are termi- 

 nated by white flowers colleded into globular heads. 



feeds in England. 



July 



The fixth fort grows naturally in Spain and fome parts 

 of Italy ; this hath very flender ligneous fl:alks which 

 grow ereft, about nine inches high, fending out two 

 or three flender fide branches toward the bottom ; 

 thefe are garnilhed with narrow, fpear-fhaped, ftiff 

 leaves, which are placed oppofite. The flowers grow 

 in whorls above each other for more than half the 

 length of the flalk, they feem as if they were bundled 

 together. The flowers are fmall and white 5 they ap- 



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the feeds feldom ripen here ; the 



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whole plant has a pleafant aromatic fcent. 

 The feventh fort grows naturally in Crete ; this hath 

 very flender ligneous ftalks, which rife near a foot and 

 a half high, garniflied with fmall, oval, ftiff, acute- 

 pointed leaves, whofe borders ^are reflexed. The 

 flowers grow in roundifh wfforls upon foot-ftalks, 

 ■which rife by pairs from the wings of the leaves ; 

 thefe are fmall and white ; they appear in July, and 

 if the feafon proves warm, the feeds will ripen in 

 autumn. 



The eighth fort grows naturally in Crete ; this has a 

 low fhrubby ftalk, which fends out branches on every 

 fide, which grow about fix inches long, and are hoary ; 

 they are garniflied with ftiff, narrow, acute-pointed 

 leaves, which are hollowed like the keel of a boat. 

 The flowers grow in fliort roundifh fpikes at the end 

 of the branches ; they are fmall and white ; the whole 

 plant ishoary, and very aromatic. This never pro- 

 duces feeds in England. 



The firft fort is only cultivated by feeds ; thefe fliould 

 be fown the beginning of April, upon a bed of lio-ht 

 earth, either where they are to remain, or for tranf- 

 planting ; if the plants are to ftand unremoved, the 

 feeds Ihould be fown thinly •, but if they are to be 

 tranfplanted, they may be fown clofer. When the 

 plants appear they muft be kept clean from weeds, 

 and afterward they may be treated in the fame way 

 as Marjoram. ; ^. ^ 



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Tlie fccond, fixth, and eighth forts, are too tenc\.^ 

 to hvc throuoh the winter ,n the open air in En^^lanj 

 Ihdc arc generally propagated by flips'or cuclin 

 which take root very readily during anv of che fummcr 

 months; if thefe cuttings or flips are planted in I 

 fliady border, or are fliaded from the fun with mat. 

 they will put out roots in two months, fit to be tr^rf 

 planted, when they fliould be taken up carefully and 

 each tranfplanted into a fmall pot, filled with frefli im 

 dunged earth, and placed in the fliade till they have' 

 taken new root; then they may be placed in a fliel 

 tered fltuation, where they may remain till the end of 

 Odober, when they Ihould be placed under a com 

 mon hot-bed frame, where they m.ay be expofed to 

 the open air at all times when the weather is mild • but 

 they muft be protefted from hard froft, which will de- 

 ftroy them if expofed thereto. 

 As thefe plants feldom live above three or four 

 fo there fliould be a fupply of young plants raifed'^to 

 ,... -•"'- the ipecies, otherwife they may be foon 



In winter they fliould not have much wet for 

 they are very lubjeft to grow mouldy by moifture' but 

 efpecially if the tree air is excluded from them ; 'or if 

 their branches arc drawn up weak, they are vcrry apt 

 to get mouldy, and then they foon decay. 

 The third fort is very hardy, fo if this is fown or 

 planted upon a dry lean foil, it will endure the crrfateft 

 cold of our winters. I have fcm fomc of thi' plants 

 growing upon the top of an old wall, where they 

 were fully expofed to the cold, and thefe furvivcd 

 the fevere froft, when moft of thofe which were arow- 

 ing in the ground were deflroyed. This may be pro- 

 pagated either by feeds in the fame way as the firft 

 fort, or by flips, which, if planted in the fprincr, will 

 take root very freely. Thefe plants will laft Sveral 

 years, but when they are old, their flioots will be 

 Ihort and not fo well furniflied with leaves, fo will 

 not be fo good for ufe as young plants, therefore it 

 will be proper to raife a fupply of young plants every 

 other year. 



The fifth fort has a perennial^ root, but the ftalks 

 decay every autumn. There are two varieties of this, 

 one of them. has narrower leaves and larger heads 

 than the other, and the leaves have very little fcent; 

 whereas thofe of the common fort fmell fo like Pen- 

 nyroyal, as not to be diftinguiflied by thofe who do 

 not fee the plants. This fort fometimes produces good 

 feeds here, from which the plants may be eafily pro- 

 pagated ; they may alfo be increafed by planting cut- 

 tings in the fpring, in the fame manner as is pradifed 

 for Mint ; thefe will take root freely, and if they are 

 afterwards planted in a moift foil, they will thrive ex- 

 ceedingly ; but as the plant is never ufed here, fo it 

 is only kept for variety in fome curious gardens. 

 A T Y R I U M. Lin. Gen. Plant. 901. Orchis, Tourn. 

 Inft. R.H. 431. tab. 247, 248. 



The Characters are, 

 // ha^b a fingle ftalk ; the flowers have no empalement, 

 hut Jit upon the germen : they have five chlon^ oval pe- 



met 



'ifr> 



fituated 



fide between the divifion of the petals^ faftened 



ceptacle. 



of thefe 



Jhort and ereSf^ the under is 

 'heir bafe reprefents the hinder 



fhort flender ftamina 



fitting upon the point aU having oval fu 

 double cells fljut in the upper lip of the neSlarium^ and an 

 oblong tzvifted germen ftuated under the fewer ^ having a 

 fhort flyle^ growing on the upper lip of the neSlarimiy 



ta. 'The germen nf- 



efled ftig 



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having 



terward becomes an oblcng capfule with one c. , 



three keels and three cells ^ opening under the keels three 



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ways^ andfllled with fmall feeds. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftion of 

 Linn^us's twentieth clafs, which includes thofe plants 

 in whofe flowers the ftamina are connected to the 



ftyle. 



The Species are, 

 . Satyrium {Nigrmn) bulbis palmatis, foliis lineari- 



bus, floribus reiupinatis nedarii labio indivifo ovato 



acuminato 



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