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Eajlern^ perennial. Foxtail Ervum, with along fruit. 

 2. SopHORA {Tomentofa) foliis pinnatis, foliolisnumero- 



fis fubrotundis. Lin. Sp. 373. Sopbora with winged 

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^..SoPHORA (^Tin5foria) foliis ternatis fubfeflilibus, folio- 

 lis fubrotundis glabris. Lin. Sp. Plant. 373. Sophora 



" vsith trifoliate leaves fitting ahnojt clofe to thejtalks^ whofe 

 lobes are roundtflj and fntooth. Cytifus Americanus pro- 



• cambens, flore luteo, ramoriffimiis, qui anil fuppedi- 

 " tar. Trailing 'American Cytifus with'a yellow flower and 



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; The firft fort grows naturally in the Levant; this 

 hath a perennial creeping root, from which afife fe- 

 ■ 'Veral ereft llalks from three to four feet high, gar- 

 '••^niflied with winged leaves, compofed of agreatnum- 

 ^ ber of oblong hairy lobes ranged by pairs along the 

 .midrib, terminated by an odd one. The flowers 

 ^ come out from the wings of the ftalk in long fpikes, 

 which (land ereS: clofe to the ftalk V they are of a pale 

 ^ 'blue colour, "and fmall. Thefe appear in July, but 

 are rarely fucqeeded by pods in England. 

 ''It propagates faft enough by its creeping root, in 

 ^ the fame mariner as Liquorice, when the plant is 

 "once obtained, and is very hardy, fofhould be plant- 

 ed in fome corner of the garden, at a diftance from 

 . other plants, becaufe the roots of this plant \vill 

 ^ Xpread, mix with thofe of the neighbouring plants, 

 ^ and foon overbear them. It will thrive in almoft 

 . . any foil or fituation, fdrT hav^Jff equently feen the 

 ■'roots fpread into the middle of gravel walks, and fend 



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The fecond fort grows 'naturally in tTie idarid of Cey- 

 lon, at Senegal jrj Africa^ jind alfo in the Weft- 



■ *■ Indies, but particularly in Jam'aica, where the inha- 

 bitants call it Sea-fide Pigeon Pea : this rifes .with a 



' downy ftalk to the height of fix or feven feet, garnilh- 

 ed with winged leaves compofed of five or fix pair of 



. 'Toundifh woolly lobes, terminated by an odd one. 

 The flowers come out in fliort loofe fpikes from the 

 wings of the ftalks ; they are large and yellow, not 

 mudi unlike thofe of Spanifii Broom, but have no 

 fcent ; thefe are fucceeded by taper woolly pods five or 

 ' ' fix inches long, having four or five large fwellings, in 



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This is propagated by feeds, which fhould be fo\ti) 

 on a warm border in the beginning of April. ' The 

 beft way is to fow them in fliallow drills for the more 

 conveniently keeping the plants clean, for they muft 

 not be removed till their ftalks decay in autumn', v;hen 

 they fhould be carefully taken up, and planted in a 

 warm border where they are defigned to remain, for 

 they do not bear tranfplanting well. 

 S O R B U S. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 6^-^. Lin, Gen. Plant. 

 548. [fo called of forbore, Lot. to fup, becauic the 

 fruit, being ripe, is fo foft, that it may be fupped.] 

 The Service-tree i in French, Sorbier, 



The Characters are, 

 "The flower has a fpreading-^ concave^ permanent empale- 

 ment of one leaf indented in five parts \ it las fivercuhd- 

 ifh concave petals ivhicb are i7ifcrted_ in the empalement^ 

 and about twenty awl-fljaped jiamina^ which are alfo /;;- 

 ferted in the empalement^ terminated by roundifi fum-mits. 



germen isfittiated under the flower^ fupp 



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becomes a foft umbilicated fruity inclofing three or four ob- 

 long cartilaginous feeds. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the third feftion of 

 Linnseus's twelfth clafs, which includes thofe plants 

 whofe flowers have from eleven to twenty ftamina in- 

 ferted in the empalement, and three ttyles, 

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SoRBUs {Aucuparia) foliis pinnatis, utrinque glabris. 

 Hall. Helv. 250. Service-tree with winged leaves which 

 are fmooth on both fides. Sorbus fylveftris, foliis do- 

 mellic^ fimilis. C. B. P. 415. Wild Service with leaves 

 like the cultivated^ commonly called ^dcken^ ^dckbeam^ 

 Mountain Afi}^ and in the north. Roan-tree. -- 

 SoREus (Domefiica) fohis pinnatis, fubtus tomentofis. 

 Hall. Helv. 351. Service-tree zvith winged leaves zvhich 

 are woolly on their under Jide. Sorbus fativa. C. B. P, 

 45 1'. 'The cultivated Service. 



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This plant is tender, fo will not thrive in England 

 out of a ftove ; it is propagated by feeds which may 

 be eafily procured from the Weft-Indies, for the plants 

 do not perfed them in England ; thefe fliould be fown 

 in pots, and plunged into a good hot-bed, where, if 

 the feeds are good, the plants will appear in a month 

 or fix weeks. When thefe are fit to remove, they 

 ihould be each tranfplanted into a feparate pot filled 

 with foft loamy earth, and plunged again into a hot- 

 bed of tariners bark, obferving to (hade them from 

 the fun till they have taken new root ;' after which 

 they muft be treated in the fame way as other tender 

 plants from the fame countries, always keeping them 

 in the bark-bed in the ftove, and in the winter they 

 fhould have but little water, 

 The third fort grows naturally in Virginia and Phila- 

 delphia, from both thefe places I have received the 

 feeds i from this plant there was formerly a coarfe 

 fort of Indigo made in America, as there was from 

 fome other plants, before the true Indigo plants were 

 introduced there: this hath a perennial root, from 

 which arife feveral ftalks about afoot and a half high, 

 fending out from the bottom a great number of fmall 

 branches, garnilhcd with leaves compofed of three 

 oval fmooth lobes joined together at the foot-ftalk like 

 other trifoliate leaves -, they fit clofe to the branches. 

 . ,The flowers come out toward the end of the branches 

 in ftiort fpikes •, they are of the butterfly kind, yellow, 

 ' and appear in July ; they are often fucceeded by fliort 

 . fwelling pods, which in very warm feafons come to 

 maturity in England^. The ftalks of this decay to the 

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The firft fort grows naturally in many parts olEng- 

 land, but in the fouthern counties they are feldom 

 feen of any great magnitude, for the trees are com- 

 monly cut down, and reduced to underwood i but in 

 the North of England and Wales, where they are 

 perrnitted to grow, there are trees of very large fize. 

 The ftems of this are covered with a fmooth gray bark, 

 the branches while young have a purplifli brown bark, 

 the leaves are winged ; they are compofed af eight or 

 nine pair of long narrow lobes, terminated by an odd 

 one ; the lobes are about two inches long, and half 

 an irich broad toward their bafe, ending in acute 

 points, and are ftiarply fawed on their edges j the ' ' 

 leaves on the young trees m the fpring are hoary on 

 their under fide, which about Midfummer goes off, 

 and thofe upon the older branches have very little at 

 any feafon. The flowers are prt)duced in large bunches 

 almoft in form of umbels, at the end of the branches ; 

 they are compofed of five fpreading concave petals 

 fhaped like thofe of the Pear-tree, but fmaller ; thefe 

 appear in May, and^re fucceeded by roundifli berries, 

 growing in large bunches, which have a depreffed 

 navel on the top, and turn red in autumn when they 



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This tree is cultivated in the nurfery-gardens, and 



fold as a flowering flirubi but, if they were permitted 

 to grow, they would rife to a groat height, and have, 

 large ftems. The leaves of this tree make a pretty 

 variety when they are mixed with others during the 

 time of their flowering, and alfo in autumn. When 

 their fruit is ripe they make a pretty appearance, but 

 the blackbirds and thrufties are fo fond of this fruit, 

 as to devour it as foon as it ripens ; fo that in thofe * 

 places where there is a plenty of thefe birds, there will 

 not be any, of the fruit left to be perfeftly ripe; how- 

 ever, as it is good for thefe fongfters, where people 

 have a defire of drawing a number of thefe birds about 

 their habitations, they fliould plant a quantity of thefe 

 trees for that purpofe. 



The fecond fort grows naturally in the warmer parts 

 of Europe, where it rifes to a great height, and be- 

 comes a large tree, but in England there are few of 

 any large fize. In the; fouth of France and in Italy, 



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