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i!eacl your Trees may appear after 

 a hard Winter, yet I would advife 

 you to let them remain till the 

 fucceeding Summer has fufficiently 

 demonftrated v/hat are living, and 

 what are dead 3 for tlie Winter 

 Anno 1718-9. gave »s great Rea- 

 ibn to believe moft of the Trees of 

 this Kind weredeftroy'd. and many 

 People were fo hafty, as to dig up, 

 or cut down many of their Trees j 

 whereas all thofe People who had 

 Patience to let their Trees remain, 

 found, that fcarce one in five hun- 

 dred fail'd to come out again the 

 next Summer, and madehandfome 

 Plants that Scaibn. 



ARGEMONE, Prickly Poppy. 

 The Chambers are j 



It hath an annual Root : The 

 Leaves are laciniatedy or jagged ^ 

 which are terminated voith Spikes: 

 The Flower confijls of many Leaves, 

 rehich expaiid in Form of a Kofe: 

 The Point al of the Floveer becomes 

 a large trigonical Veffel, -which is 

 divided into three Ctlls, wherein 

 are containd many globular black 

 Seeds. 



There is but one Species of this 

 Plant known, which is, 



Argemoke i Mexicana. Tourn, 

 The Prickly Poppy. 



This is an annual Plant, which 

 is very common in moft Parts of 

 the Wejl-Indics, and is by the Spani- 

 ards call'd, Fico del Inferno, or the 

 Devil's Fig i there is no great 

 Beauty or Ule in this Plant amongft 

 us, that I know of j but whoever 

 hath a Mind to cultivate it, fhould, 

 at firft, fow it on a Hot-bed, and 

 in June tr an (plant it out into the 

 natural Borders, where, when once 

 it has fhed its Seed, there will not 

 want a Supply of Plants for feveral 

 Years after. I have been inform- 

 ed that Gumbouge is made from 

 the Juice of this Plant, 



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ARIA THEOPHRASTI; vi^ 

 Crat.^gus. 



ARlSARUMj The Herb Friar*s 

 Cowl. 



ARISTOLOCHIA, Birthwort. 

 The Charaders are j 



The Stalks arefiexitle -, the Leaves 

 are plac'd alternately on the Branches 5 

 the Flowers conjifl .of one Leaf and 

 are of an anomalous Figure, hol- 

 lowed like a Fipe, and floafd like ^ 

 Tongue, generally hooked: The Flower- 

 Cup turns to a membraneous, f.iul, 

 for the moft part, oval-fJjap'd Fruit, 

 which is divided into five Cells, and 

 full of flat Seeds, 



We have three or four Species of 

 this Plant in the curious Gardens o^t 

 Botany J which are, 



1. Aristolochia ,• j?(9r^ ex pur- 

 pura nigro. C. B. P. The round- 

 rooted Birthwort, 



2. Aristolochia ; clematitis rec- 

 ta, C. B. P. The Climbing Birth- 

 wort. 



5. Aristolochia 5 Piftolochia dic- 

 ta, C. B. P. SpaniJJj Birthwort, 



4. Aristolochia j Piftolochia dic- 

 ta, Cretica, folio fmilacis fempervi- 

 rens. H. L, The Ever-green Birth- 

 wort from Crete. 



The firft and fecond of thcle 

 Species are fometimes ufed in Me- 

 dicine 5 the third and fourth Sorts 

 are prefer v'd in Botanic k Gardens 

 as Curiolities j the tourth Sort has 

 been by feveral People thought to 

 be the true Snake-Root : But this is 

 known to be a Miftake. 



The tv/o firft Sorts are very 

 hardy, and are eafily propagated 

 by parting their Roots; but the 

 third and fourth Sorts are tender, 

 and muft be fhdtcr'd in Winter 

 from the fever e Froft, but are tc- 

 lerably hardy, and have, in mode- 

 rate V/inters, frood abroad in a 

 Border under a warm Wall : The 

 lail Sort I receiv'd ho.-u the Cu- 

 .iious 



