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of the Summer Months, which 

 .Cuttings (hould be taken from 

 the Plants, at leaft a Week be- 

 fore they are planted, and laid in 

 a dry Place, that the Wound may 

 be heaPd, and the Moifture evapo- 

 rafed, otherwife they are very fub- 

 je<3: to rot: thefe Cuttings muft be 

 planted in fmall Pots fili'd with a 

 j(andy Soil; and after having ftood 

 about a Week abroad in a Ibady 

 Place, you may plunge the Pots in- 

 to a very moderate Hot-bed, which 

 will greatly forward their making 

 new Roots j in about a Month's 

 time after planting, you muft be- 

 gin to harden them, by expofing 

 them to the open Air, but do not 

 let them receive much Wet, which 

 is a great Enemy to thefe Plants ; 

 and in the Beginning of September, 

 you muft houfe them with the 

 imaller Sorts of Aloes, giving them 

 very little Water in the Winter Sea- 

 ion. 



The fifth Sort is very fubje^t to 

 flower every Year, but the fourth 

 and lixth Sorts flower but feldom ■■, 

 but neither of them is fo apt to 

 flower, if expos'd to the open Air 

 in Summer ; therefore it is the bet- 

 ter way to let them remain in the 

 Houfe moft Part of the Year, givc- 

 ing them as much free Air as pof- 

 fible when the Weather Vvrill per- 

 mit, and never letting them have 

 much Water : With this Manage- 

 ment all the Sorts will thrive 

 much better, and oftener produce 

 Flowers. 



Although there is no great Beau- 

 ty in thefe Flowers when blown, 

 yet for their extreme Oddnefs they 

 well deferve a Place in every curi- 

 ous Collection of Plants. 



Thefe Flowers fb much refem- 

 tle in Smell ftinking Flefli, that the 

 Flies will cover them with their 

 Eggs, which come ia far as juft 



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to have Life; but not finding pro- 

 per Nutriment, they foon perifti. 



ASCYRUM ; St. Peter's-wort. 

 The Character is i 



This Flant differs from St. John's- 

 wort, only in having a Vyrarrtidal 

 Seed Veffel, which is divided into Jive 

 Cells. 



We have only two Sorts of this 

 Plant in England, viz.. 



1. AscYRUMj magnofiore. C.B, 

 P. The large flowering St. Peter's- 

 wort. 



2. AscYRUM; Balearicumy fru- 

 tefcens, maximo fiors luteo, foliis 

 minoribus, fubtus verrucofis. Sal- 

 vador. Boerh. Ind. Myrto-Cijius Fen- 

 iui. Cluf. H. The large flower- 

 ing St. Peter's- wort from Majorca, 

 with fmall war ted Leaves. 



The firft of thefe Plants was fent 

 into England by Sir Geor.ge Wheeler ^ 

 to the Phyfick Garden at Oxford, 

 from Conflantlnofle, where he found 

 it wild; this Plant produces very 

 large Flowers, with a great Num- 

 ber of Stamina or Threads in the 

 Middle, and makes a very agreeable 

 Shew in the Wildernefs Quarters, 

 or in fhady Borders, where it 

 chiefly delights to grow : It is very 

 hardy, and increafes greatly by its 

 creeping Roots, which will ibon 

 overfprcad a Border ; it is beft when 

 kept in fmall Tufts, and not fuf- 

 fer'd to run too much, which of- 

 ten prevents its flowering, by Jiave- 

 ing too great a Quant ity of Branches ,• 

 the Flowers are produc'd in June 

 and July, but it feldom perfefts 

 its Seeds with us. This will grow 

 in almoft any Soil. 



The fecond Sort was firft men- 

 tion'd by Dr. Lobel, who receiv'd 

 a dried Sample of this Plant from 

 Dr. Pennji, who found it in his 

 Travels,- and was by Lotel call'd 

 Myrto-CiJius ; the Flowers, as he 

 thought, refcnibling the Cijlus or 



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