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tiid plant is peculiar, it may be allowed a place in 

 every colleftion of plants for the fake of variety, fince 

 it requires no great trouble to cultivate it. 

 Thefe plants may alfo be propagated by feeds, which 

 fhould be fown on a warm border of light frelh earth, 

 \vhere fometimes they will remain a whole year be- 

 fore the plants come up ; therefore when they do not 

 come up the firft feafon, the borders Ihould not be dif- 

 turbed, but kept conftantly clear from weeds \ and the 

 following fpring, when the plants are come up about 

 four inches high, they Ihould be taken up and planted 

 in pots, (and treated in the fame manner as hath been 

 direfted for the cuttings;) for if they are fuffered 

 to grow in the border till they are large, they will 

 not tranfplant fo well, nor will they make fo handfome 

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The third fort hath large flefliy roots ; the branches 

 are weak, and trail upon the ground ; tfiefe generally 

 decay about Midfummer, and new fhoots are pro- 

 duced late in autumn. The leaves of this come out 

 in bunches \ they are oval, plain, and not fo thick and 

 fucculent as thofe of the other forts ; they are little 

 inore than an inch long, and half an inch broad. 

 The flowers are produced from the wings of the leaves 

 in February ■, thefe are like thofe of the fecond fort. 



This never pro- 

 duces any feeds in England ; however the cuttings 

 will grow, if they are planted early in the fpring, fo 

 that the fort may be propagated with the fame facility 

 as either of the other kinds. 



and have long flender foot-ftalks. 



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All thefe forts require proteftion in winter ; but if 

 they are placed in an airy glafs-cafe with Ficoides, and 

 other hardy plants, where they may "have a large fliare 

 of free air in mild weather, and protefted from the 

 froft, they will thrive much better than when they 

 are more tenderly treated. ■ *<'"'•;" 



TETRAGONOTHECA.Hort.Elth. 283. Lin. 



'; Gen. Plant, 875. Sun-flower, vulgo. 



The Characters are, 

 ' ^he flower is compofed of hermaphrodite ajtd female fio- 



; rets, tvhich are included in one large common empalement, 

 cut into four plain, triangular, hcart-fljaped fegments 

 which fprcad open, "The dtjk or middle of the flower is 

 made up of hermaphrodite florets, which are funnel-fljaped, 

 and cut into five fegments at the brim, which are reflexed -, 

 tb^ have five fljort hair-like ftamina, terminated by cy~ 



\ lindrical fummits, and a naked germen fupporting a flender 

 ftyle, crowned by two repxed ftigMas: ThigermeH' af- 

 terward becomes one naked roundt^ feed, ne female half 



; florets which compofe the ray or border of the flower, have' 



petals ftr etched 



Thefe 



have no ftamina, but a naked germen fupporting 

 ftyle with two twifled fligmas, and are fucceeded byfmgle 

 naked feeds. J- ;^'* >**>*i^ =*-^^- ^---^ , : .,^.^. ;.h^ v .-^^ 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond feflion 

 of Linn^us's nineteenth clafs, which includes the 

 plants whofe flowers are compofed of hermaphrodite 

 ^nd female florets which are fruitful, and their fum- 

 mits are conne£ted; 



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ETR-GONOTHECA {Helianihoides.) Lm. bp. I'lant. 903. 

 Tetragonotheca doronici maximi folio. Hort. Elth. 

 378. Dwarf Sun-flower, with a leaf like the greater 

 Leopard's Bane.- ■• ■.;^-:. :^' • ' - 



This plant is a native of Carolina, from whence the 

 feeds were brought to Europe. The roots of this 

 plant are perennial, but the ftalks are annual, and 

 perifh in autumn on the approach of cold. The roots 

 will abide through the winter in the full ground, it 

 they are planted in a warm fituation, fo do not require 

 any flielter, except in very fevere winters ; when, if 

 they are covered over with rotten tan or Peas haulm, 

 to keep out the froft, there will be no danger of their 



being killed.'' --il'i: ■• ■ - '. * ■ . ". ' 



About the latter end of April or the beginning ot 

 May, the roots will fend forth new fhoots, which are 

 o-arnilhed with large, oblong, rough leaves, placed by 

 pairs, clofely embracing the ftalks -, thefe are a little 

 finuated on their edges, and are covered with fmall 

 hairs. The ftalks ufually grow about two feet and a 



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top into feveral fmaller fl;alks, each having one large 

 yellow flower at their top, (haped like a Sun-flower; 

 which, before it expands, iscovered with the inflated 

 empaleri"ient, which is four-cornered. The feeds of 

 this plant rarely ripen in England, but when they are 

 obtained from abroad, they fliould be fown in the full 

 ground in the fpring of the year ; where fometimes 

 they will remain a year before the plants come up, fo 

 that if they do not come up the fame year, the ground 

 fliould not be difl:urbed, but kept clean from weeds, 

 and wait till the fecond year to fee what plants will 

 come up. When the plants appear they mufl: be 

 kept clean from weeds, and if the feafon fliould prove 

 dry, they will require to be frequently watered. In 

 autumn the plants fliould be tranfplanted into the 

 places where they are to remain. - ^ 



Thefe plants will live three years in a proper foil and 

 fituation, but as it does not increafe here, the beft 

 method is to procure good feeds from abroad an- 

 nually. -■ .... 

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which is compofed of only four fingle flower leaves, 



called petala. . ^ . 



TEUCRIUM. Lin. Gen. Plant. 625. Tourn. 

 tnfl. R. H- 207. tab. <)'i^ [takes its name from king 

 Teucer, who was the firrt amongfl: the ancients who 

 . brought this, plant into ufe.] Tree Germander. 

 The Characters are, 

 The empalement of the flower is of one leaf, ciit into 

 five acute equal fegmenls at the top, and is permanent. 

 The flower is of the lip kind with one petal, having a 

 fljort cylindrical tube a little incurved at the chaps. The 

 upper lip is ere^f, and deeply cut into two acute fegments. _ 

 ■ The lower lipjpreads and is cut into three fegments -, the 

 • middle one is large and roundifh, the two fide ones are 

 -.acute and ''&e5l.-R ba^ four awl-fljaped flamina which 

 are longer than the upper Up, and are prominent between 

 the fegments, terminated by fmall fummits. It has a 

 germen divided in four parts, fupporting a flender flyle^ 

 crowned by two flender ftigmas. The germen afterward 

 - ■ turn to four roundiflo naked feeds which ripen in the 



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This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedtion ot 



Linn^us's fourteenth clafs, which includes thofe 



plants whofe flowers have two long and two fliorter 



ftamina, and the feeds have no capfule^ 



>.{t.The SpECiiis are, ■ ■ ..r.; ; ,y /-- ■- , 



'i. TeucriOm {Flavum) foliis cordatis obtiise lefratis, 



: floralibus integerrimis concavis, caule fruticofo. Lin. 



,Sp. Plant. 565. 'J^ree Germander with heart-fhaped 



leaves which are bluntly fawed, thofe between the flower i 



concave ancl entire, 'and a flirubby ftalk, . Teucrium mul- 



"tlsV'J.B. Common Tree Germander. '■''^- _-" ' 



2. Teucrium (Lucidmn) foliis ovatis acute incifo-ferfatis 



glabiis, floribus axillaribus geminis, caule eredto. 



Lin. Sp. Plant. 790. Germander with oval fmooth leaves 



which are acutely fawed, and two flower's proceeding from 



■ thf Rde of the (talk's, -'which are ere5l\ Chamasdrys Al- 



pina frutefcens, <^"l'^ fnlendente. Ma 



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Shrubby Alpine Germander with a lucid /, , 



Teucirum (i^r«//V^«i) foliis integerrimis oblongo- 



ovatis petiolatis, fupra glabris, fubtus tomentofis pe- 



. dunculis unifloris. Lin. Sp. Plant. 563. Tree German- 

 der with entire, oblong, ' oval haves having foot-ftalks, 

 ■fmooth and hoary underneath, and one flower on a foot- 

 flalk: .Teucrium fruncans Basticum. Clul. Hilt. i. p. 

 oA^.'spanijhTreeGerTramder. ■■'■'^'\/p^\-'- 



4. Teucrium (Latifolium) foliis integernmis 



acuf'is, villofis, fubtus tombntofis. Hort. Uplal. 195. 

 Tree Germander with entire leaves which are hairy, 

 (hated like an acute rhombus, and woolly on their under 

 /?/• Teucrium Hifpanicum latiore tolio. Tourn. 

 Inft R H. 208. Spanifli Tree Germander with a broad- 



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Teucrium {Campanulatum) £o\iH muhiMis, floribus 

 folitariis. Lin. Sp. 562. Germander with many-pointed 

 leaves, and flowers growing fmgly. Teucrium H.ipa- 

 nicum fupinum humilius, verbena tenuifoliae fohi?, 

 Juffieu. Low, trailing, Spanifl: Germander, with leaves 

 like thofe of the narrow-leaved Vervain.^ ^ Teucrium 



