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in the year 1 7/4. It is a green-house shrub, of slow 

 growth, and seldom exceeds three feet in height, and 

 when of a sufficient age, produces flowers and berries 

 through most of the year. 



MOUNTAIN CRANE'S-BILL. From the bo- 

 tanical name of this plant, it would seem to imply, 

 that it was peculiarly a native of the Pyrenees, whereas 

 it is found in waste ground, and the borders of fields, 

 in various parts of Europe. It blossoms in July. 



Under this Order Linnaeus put the numerous 

 Genus of Geraniums, but since his time they have 

 been divided into three Genera, which are now ar- 

 ranged under this and the two penultima Orders. 

 This tribe of plants consists of more than eighty spe- 

 cies, and it is remarkable that the fertilizing pollen of 

 these flowers is very apt to mix with others of dif- 

 ferent species, and so produce new species or varieties j 

 but these plants rapidly degenerate, and in a few years 

 become extinct, although reproduced by seed. 



BROWNEA. This is the only Genus in this Order. 

 It is a shrub, or small tree, growing to the height of 

 eighteen feet in woody and hilly pbces in America: 

 the wood is covered with an ash-coloured bark. The 

 blossom is scarlet. It has its name from Dr. Brown, 

 author of the History of Jamaica. The practice of 

 distinguishing different genera of plants by personal 

 names, may have had its influence, however trifling, 

 as an incentive to the pursuit of Botany ; and though 



