SECT. XIX. LISTS OF TREE,, &C. S17 



4 Capftcumty red, yellow and white podded 



3 Ckome, prickly italked, and five leaved 



4 Coluten y or fcarlet African bladder fena 



4 Convolvulus) fcarlet, (ipoma-a qaamoclit) a climber 



3 Eggplant) white, yellow, red, and prickly fruited 



2 Hurtbte, or fpreading branching >///'?/«.* /»W 



i Ice plant, or diamond ficoides, wh. and yel. flowered 



4 Indian fat, or flowering reeds fear, red, yel. 

 4 Pentapatei phcenicic,) fcarlet flowered 



3 Pbjfaft*, or winter cherry, angular and downy 



4 Senfitivey or Double Memofaj— &t kufM plant* 

 4 Si&, or Indian mallow, heart leaved, pink 



2 Spigelia-JutfiJmia, or American Worm Grafs, red 

 4 Stramonium) or thorr, apple, double purple, tec. 



%* Some perfons cultivate the frpenti.ne cucumher) or 

 mden, as a curiofuy of the fummer, the fruit being pro- 

 duced from one to two yards long, under good manage- 

 ment ; but it is to be remembered it will take up much 

 room. 



As to the fpirting (or wild) cucumber) though it may be 

 mentioned here, it is very hardy, fo as to fow itfclf. in 

 autumn, come up in fpring, and will abide as a perennial. 

 Sow in Mnnb) and allow it two yards fquare. This is 

 merely propagated for drorrjiou ; for if the fruit is touched 

 when ripe, it burfls and throws its feet id contents to fame 

 fliiTance, perhaps (wittily) over the clothes of the adven- 

 turer, and perfumes him. 



OBSERVATIONS ON PARTICULAR FLOWERS. 



Amaranthus, the tree fort, grows larger than the 

 others, £nd bears purple flowers. The tricolor and bico- 

 lor are i'o called, from the former having the leaves of 

 three colours ; i. e. a bright red, yellow and green ; 

 and the latter of two, a deep red and purple ; and it is 

 for thefe, and not the flower, that they are cultivated. 

 The flowers of the globe tons have the peculiar property 

 of retaining their torm and colour a long time (years) 

 when gathered. Clear the feed of this flower Irom its 



P 3 downy 





