fegment. They grow in long fpikes, flowering fucceflively 

 from the bottom upwards. They appear the beginning of June 

 and the feeds ripen in autumn. Native of the South of Europe. 

 Immenfe tracts of land in Apulia are covered with it, and it 

 affords good nourishment to the fheep. Cultivated in 1596, 

 by Gerard. Hardy. It does not increafe very fart by 

 roots, nor fhould it be often tranfplanted, for that will weaken 

 it, fo that the flower Items will not rife fo tall, nor produce fo 

 many flowers, as when left undilturbed for foine years; there- 

 fore the belt way is to propagate it bv feeds. Mart. Mill. 

 Ditt. Clusius fays, that on his way from Lifbon to Seville, 

 he faw roots turned up by the plough of fifty pounds weight 

 and upwards. G. 



ERRATA. 



No. 787. 1. 16. dele " perraro." 

 Eod. 1. 26. pro pulTtda lege pallida. 



