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-, h::b are rcf.cscd \ the chaps arc ivnv.ed zvilh five atcl- 

 fbr.pcd ro.ys whi.b aye connc.^ed in a cone ; it has five 

 'ivxl'fkapcd fiamina ivhicb arc alternate ^lath the rays 

 . of the chaps ^ tcr situated by creel acute fionnuts^ and four 

 gcrmen [upper t'mg ajlender fiyle the length of the petals 

 crczv7icd by a fingk fiigrna. ''the gcrmen after-jjard turn 

 to four gibbous acute-pointed feeds xvh'ich ripen in the ern- 



paUvient. 



I'his genus of plants is ranged in the firfl: leftion of 

 Linn.TUs's fil'di clafs, which contains thofe plants 

 whole flowers have live llamina and one fcyle. 



The Splciks are, 

 I. Symphytum '.pJficinaJc) foliis ovato-lanceolatis de- 



currentibus. Hort. Cliff. 47- Comfrey with ov)aUfpear- 

 Jfjaped, running Icaz'cs. Symphytum Confolida major, 

 flore purpureo qUc^ mas. C. B. P. 259. Comfrey^ cr 

 greater Confotmd^ with a purple flower. 



Symphytum iftuberofuni) foliis fummis 'oppofitis. 

 Lin. Sp. Plant. 136. Comfrey with the upper leaves 

 placed oppcfite, Symphytum majus tuberoia radice. 

 C. B. P. 259. Greater Comfrey with a tuberous root. 



Symphytum {Orientale) foliis ovatis fubpetiolatis. 

 Lin. Sp. Plant. 136. Comfrey with oval leaves and 



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fjcrt foot-flalks. Symphytum Orientales, folio fub- 

 rotundo afpero, flore ca^ruleo. Tourn. Cor. 7. Eaftern 

 Comfrey with a roundijh leaf 'aijd a blue fiower. 

 There are a few other fpecics of this genus, but thofc 

 which are here enumerated, are all the forts at prefent 

 to be found in the Englifn gardens. 

 The firfl: fort grows naturally in England, but the 

 moft common here is that with a whitifh yellow flow- 

 er, which is found growing by the fide of ditches and 

 ether moiil places in great plenty, but that with pur- 

 ple flowers is the molt common in Holland and Ger- 

 many ; thefe are fuppofed to be only accidental vari- 

 eties, which differ in the colour of their flowers ; how- 

 ever, this difference is permanent in the plants raifed 

 from feeds, as I have many times found j nor are the 

 two kinds ever found mixed where they grow wild, 

 for in thofe places where the blue is found, the white 

 is never feen, and vice verfa ; but as there are no 

 fpecific differences between them, I fhall not feparate 



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9, Syringa with fpearfhaped leaves.^ Lilac folio liguf- 



tri. Tourn. Inft. 602. Lilac 'with a Trivet leaf ^co^hmon^ 



ly called Perjian Jafmine. ^ ■;/; 



Syringa [Laciniatd) foliis lanceolatis integris difiec- 



ptifcjue laciniata. Hort. C\\S: 67 Syringa with entire 



•_-, The common Comfrey has thick roots compofedof I fpear-fhaped leaves^- and others which are cut and jag- 



Lilac laciniato folio. Tourn. Inft. 602. Lilac 



rounder, and are armed with rougl; prickly h;ur^ 

 l^he flowers are blue, and glow in bunches like tb.ofe 

 of thcfirft fort ; they appear in iMarch, but are fci- 

 dom fuccceded bv feeds in k.ntrlaiid. 

 Thefe plants may be cultivated, either by fowina their 

 feeds in the fpring, or by parting of their roots^: the 

 latter way bciiig the more expeditious, is chicPv prac- 

 tUed where they are phinrcd forufc. Tiie bell feafon 

 for parting the roots is in autumn, at v/hich time al- 

 moft every piece of a root v/111 grow. They ihouid be 

 planted about two feet and a half afunJer,' that they 

 may have room to fpread, and will require no farther 

 care but to keep them clear from weeds^ for thev arc 

 extremely hardy, and will grow^ upon almofl any foil, 

 or in any fituation. 



SYRINGA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 22, Lilac. Tourn. 

 Inft. R. tl. 601. tab. 372. Lilac. 

 The Characters are, 



Theflowerhas a fnaU, tuhihiis^ permanent empahnent 

 of one leafy which is 'ih'dented in four parts at the brim ; 

 it has one petals with a long cylindrical tube cut into four 

 obtufe fegments at the brim which f pre ad open^ and two 

 very fijort ftamina terminated by fniall fummits, fianding 

 within the tube -^ it has an cblong germen fupporting afhort 



. fiendcr fryky crowned by a thick bifid ftigma, Tl 



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afterward turns to an cblong^ compreffcd^ acute pointed 

 capfule with two cells^ opening with two valves contrary 

 to the partition^ including in each cell --one oblon? acute- 

 pointed feed with a mernbr ana ecus border. ' 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftion of 

 Linna^us's fecond clafs, which contains thofe plants 

 whofe flowers have two ftamina and one ftyle. 

 The Species are, :^ 



Syringa {Vulgaris) foliis ovato-cordatls.' Hort, ClifE 

 6, Syringa with oval heart-fhaped leaves. Syringa cse- 

 rulea. C. B. P. 391. Blue Syringa^ and the Lilac. Matth. 

 12^7. The blue Lilac. 





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many flelhy fibres or fangs, which run deep in the 

 ground-, they are black on the outridej^%\it white 

 ,within, full of a flimy tenacious juice. The lower- 

 leaves are large, long, fharp-pointed, hairy and rough. 

 The ftalks rife two feet high, which are garnilhed 



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'f^c^ith a cut leaf^ commonly called cut -leaved Per/tan Jaf- 



mine. 



The firft fort is very common in the Englifli gardens. 



where it has been long cultivated as a flowering flirub. 



It is fuppofed to grow naturally in fome parts of Pcr- 



;^fia, but i,s fo hardy as to refift the greateft cold of this 



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with oval fpear-Ihaped leaves about five inches long, 

 and two broad near their bale, ending in acute jppjnts ; 



they are hairy, rough, and from their baferu^ a leafy J country. There are three varieties of this ftirub, which 

 .^J^ordgr along the.ftalk, .From the upper pcirt of.the I . are commonly cultivated in the Englifii gardens, and 

 ftalk are fent out fome fide branches, which are com- r -.do not only differ in the colour of their flowers, but 



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;4 monly garnifhed \yith two fmaller leaves, and are ter- 

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has white flowers, one blue, and the third has pur- 

 ed ; each flower has one tubulous petal, whofe upper T Jfpte flowers ; the latter is commonly known by the 



part is bellied and thicker than the lower, and the r/ title of Scotch Lilac, to diftinguifti it from the other. 



-..:This is the moft beautiful of the three, and is pro- 

 -,bably called' the Scotch Lilac, 'becaufe it >vas firft 



chaps are clofed by the ftamina arid rays which crofs it. 



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feeds ripen in Auguft. 

 / The fecond fort grows, naturally in Germany ; the roots 

 .'i^of this are compofed of^ many thick flefliy knobs ^or 

 tubers, which are ioinecl by fleftiy fibres ; the ftalks 



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ncline on one fide ; they rife a Foot: and a half high ; 



. tKe leaves on the lower part are fix inches long, and 

 two and a lialf broad in the middle, ending in acute 

 points,' an3^are"not fo rough and hairy as ^ thole of 

 the other fpeciesV^'they are placed alternate, and fit 

 clofe to the ftalks,- ■ The' two upper leaves oh every 



. branch ftand oppofite, and juft aboye them are loofe 

 Ipikes or bunches of pale yellow flowers, y/hok petals 

 areftretched out farther beyond, the enipalement.th^n 

 thofe of the otiicr. This flowers at the fame tim^e 

 with the other. 



The third fort grows naturally on the fide of rivers 

 near Conftantinople -, this hath a' perennial root like 

 the firft ; tlie ftalks grow two feet highi'the leaves are 



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lifh fort are'of a ycUowilh white, and the/or:eigh^one ^V rn^ntioned in the catalogue of the Edinburgh Garden. 

 ; is of a purple colour. It flowers in June, and the J ^-Whether this Iv'as raifed from feeds, or which other 



£- way it v\^aS. obtained I could never learn ; but I take it 

 ^^.tp be a diftind fpecies from the others, though there 

 is.,POt marks enough upon them to diftinguilh their 

 /pecific.differences'v becaufe I have raifed many of 

 the plants Yrom. feeds, which have always retained 

 their difference, as have alio the white, when they 

 were propagated by feeds; fo that they maybe rather 

 efteemed as diftindt forts, although by the rules now 

 admitted for determining fpecific differences, they 

 may not have fufficient marks whereby to diftinguifh 

 them; and as they have been by m.any of the modern 

 botanifts joined together, I fliall not feparate them 

 again, but (hall mention the particulars in which they 

 ■ differ. 



This ftirub grows to the height of eiditeen or twenty 

 I feet in good grpund, and divides into many branches ; 

 J thpfe of the white fort grow more ered than the other, 

 v^and the purple. or Scotch Lilac has its branches yet 

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