GyxAxpnià m. 
- Generic Character. RE 
W:Ne&árium inohaph hy 
T HIS Xena ue, entitled the. E 
lie, grows naturally in and near the country of China: ZANE 
learn, about the: year:1778, job» Fother gill, M. D. intro- q | 
duced it into this kin m; from which time to the pre "o 
it has been chiefly coni dee to the ftove of the curious--- ۔‎ 
Le in order tó nourifk and render it healthy, they fet it, 
à compofition of bog and loam in the moft commodious 
Place for light, heat, Sl. CR hot-houfe affords. In. this fitu- 
ation we have feen them three or four feet in height. - 
The Author of the Hortus Keccenfs mentions | 
April as the time of its flowering---this muft be in 
climate; in this ¢ country it is precatious, flowering a 
time ahd feafon of ‘the year. See, 
Te is propagated by young bulbs taken from tbe root. 
It is at prefent the unanimoils opinion of Botanifts that this 
Plant hath only foo Stantina-s-the ingenious Author of the 
Hortus Kezvenfis has particularly fignified the fame: we are ` 
aware of the arduous talk of withit: anding fuch a popular opi- 
nion, and equally fo of the folly attendant even on the idea 
of configningto oblivion that which, upon inveftigation, 
might proye the Gë ` سم‎ er zerek all poffible 2 
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