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- Faconia CRETICA. CRETIAN FAGONIAs 
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Cla/s ail Order. 
Decanpria MonocyNias 
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Generic Charafer. - 
Cal. &- -phyllus. Petala 5, cordata. Cap/.'5- locularis, 10-Valvisi 
loculis 1-fpermis. 
Specific Charaéter aitd Synonyms. 
FAGONIA cretica {pinofa, foliolis lanceolatis planis levibus. 
; Linn. Sp. Pl. cd 3. p. 553.. Mant. -p. 380. 
Lina. Sy. Vegetab. ed.14. Murr. 2 401. Ait. 
Kew. v. 1. p. 62. 7 
TRIFOLIUM feinotin Creticum. Clu/. Hiff. 2. .p. 24a. J 
| Bauh. Pin. p. 330. 
FAGONIA cretica fpinofa, Tourn. Inf. p. 66. 
aeeree is the firft gohan who has defcribed and figured 
this plant, he is very minute in his defcription of it, noticing 
the exaé& number of its ftamina; it is the more furprifing, 
therefore, that he fhould have fo little idea of generic charac- 
ter, as to rank it with the trefoils merely from the form of 
its leaves: Tournerort, born to illuftrate the genera of 
plants, named it Fagonia, in honour of his friend and_ patron, 
Monf. Facon, privy counfellor and Bec phyfician to 
Lewis XIV. 
_ This fpecies is a native of the ifland of Candia, and was 
cultivated here by Mr. Mittens in 17393 it is an annual, 
and as it does not perfeé its feeds with us in the open 
air, unlefs in very favourable feafons, it is ufually treated as @ 
_ green-houfe plant, its feeds fhould be fown in the autumn, 
it thereby flowers earlier, and ripe feeds are with more ce 
tainty obtained. 
It bloffoms from June to A 
_ _ The plant from which our drawing ‘Das made, aevined this 
- feafon in the very rich colleétion of Mefirs. Lez and Kinnen¥s 
-Hammerfmith. | 
Its branches are. ufually procumbent, about a foot in le 
and require, if the plant be kept ina pot, to be tied to. 
