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| TRADESCANTIA E irginica. SSC e floribus con- 
geftis. čim. Syf. Keh: P 14, > 314. 
The ito e of Vi rginia, o addant his 
R pai Page. Parad. 52, Gato M f 4 - 
7 | omis. 
Parkinfon informs us, that for this ornament to the flower- | 
garden, we are indebted to. John Tradefcant, who firk re | 
ceived it of a friend that De it from Virginia. 
It bears the extremity of heat and cold uninjured, conti- 
nuing in flower throughout the fummer, till the latter end of 
the year; which, together with i its being perennial, and re- 
quiring no other attention to / PES it, than parting its 
roots in autumn—or fowing Í or its varieties (the pale - 
purple, and white-flowered) js it more generally culti- 
vated than many other plants. ` 
. Antient Botanifts by, the name of Spider-wort diftia- 
guifhed feveral plants of very different genera, fuppofing 
them to "Af an sation, pe the bite of a particular fpi- 
der, 
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