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The fifth Sort produces fine dou- 

 ble Flowers, which makes a very 

 handfome Appearance during its 

 Seafon of Flowering, which ren- 

 ders it worthy of a Place in every 

 good Garden. 



The third Sort grows much 

 larger than the former, and pro 

 educes large blue Flowers : This is 

 found in Woods and fliady Places in 

 divers Parts of Enghnd. 



AW thefe Plants multiply exceed- 

 ingly by their Shoots from the old 

 Roots, which trailing upon the 

 Ground, do Ilrike out Roots in a 

 Chort time and maybe taken off and 

 tranlplanted where they are to re- 

 main : And tho' they are not fo pro- 

 per for a Flower-garden, yet a few 

 Roots of each Sort may be planted 

 in fliady Borders under Trees, 

 where few other Plants v^ill thrive, 

 or in fmall WildernelTes ; in which 

 Places, if they are kept within 

 Compafs, they make a pretty Va- 

 riety. The large Sort may be 

 planted under Hedges, in Woods, 

 Or. where it will grow four or 

 five Feet high, and continue a long 

 Time in Flower. 



Thele Plants propagate them- 

 felves by Roots fo plentifully, that 

 they feldom produce Fruit. 



Monf. Tournefort fays, He could 

 never obferve any Fruit upon them 

 either in the Country adjoining to 

 TfiriSi or in Frovence or Languedoc, 

 •where they are very common, or 

 in the Neighbourhood of Lisbon. 



Of all the Botanical Writers be- 

 fore Tournefort, dsfalpinus is the 

 only Peribn who found and de- 

 fcrib'd this Fruit, which, he fays, 

 is oblong, being two forked Husks, 

 arched and conjoinM at their Ex- 

 tremities, containing, for the moft 

 part, two oblong Seeds in each. 



To have this Plant produce Fruit, 

 Monl^. ToHrnefort advifcs its being 



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planted in a Pot that contains bu* 

 a fmall Quantity of Earth j £o that 

 the Sap being prevented from diifi- 

 pating and fpending itfelf upon nou- 

 rifliing new Shoots, will mount the 

 Stems, and fwell the Pointal, which 

 becomes the Fruit; and this, he 

 fays, was the Method whereby he 

 obtain'd the Fruit of this Plant, of 

 which he has given a Figure in his 

 Elements of Botany, 



But notwithftanding what Monf 

 Tournefort has related concerning 

 this Matter, I have often obferv'd 

 the Fruit upon fuch Plants as have 

 grown fingly on a good Soil ; tho' 

 where their Shoots are permitted 

 to entangle with each other, and 

 grow very clofe, there is feldom 

 any Fruit produced. 



PETASITES; Butter-bur. 

 The Chara£iers are -, 



It is a Tlant with a jlofculous 

 FloTver, confifiing of many Florets, 

 di'vidcd into many Farts : fitting on 

 the Embryo, and contained in a Cy- 

 lindrical Empalement, divided alfo 

 into many Farts : The Embryo after- 

 wards becomes a Seed furnifjj'd with 

 Down : To which may be added, 

 The Flowers appear before the Leaves, 

 The Species arej 



1 . Petasitpsj major, ^ vulgaris. 

 C. B. F. Common Bucrer-bur, or 

 Peftilent-wort. 



2. Petasitesj major, fiori bus Pe-^ 

 diculis longis infidcntibus . Raii Syn, 

 Greater Butter- bur, with long Foot- 

 ftalks ro the Flowers. 



3. Petasites; albus, angulofo fo- 

 lio. J, B, White Butter-bur, with 

 angular Leaves. 



4. Petasites; minor, alter, tufji- 

 laginis folio. H.R.Far. Leflcr But- 

 ter-bur, with a Colt's-foot Leaf. 



The fird Sort here meniioned is 



ufed in Medicine: This grows wild 



in_ great Plenty by the Sides of 



Ditches, and in moiH Soils in di- 



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