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Sort is Sometimes ufeJ fn Medi- 

 cine. Thefe Plants moy be propa- 

 gated by parting their Roots in 

 the Spring of the Year, before 

 they begin to make new Shoots, 

 obferving, if the Scafon be dry, to 

 water them until they have talcea 

 Root,- after which they will re- 

 quire no farther Care but to keep 

 them clear from V/ccds, obferving 

 not to tranfplant or difturb their 

 Roots oftner than opce in three or 

 four Years j for when they are of- 

 ten removed, they feldom thrive 

 well, and do rarely produce Fruit. 



The fifth Sort is tender, and 

 mud therefore be plac'd in Pots 

 fill'd with trefli Earth, and in Win- 

 ter put into the Green-houfe j but 

 it fliould be plac'd where it may 

 have free Air in mild Weather, and 

 be conftantly watered ; In which 

 Management, this Plant will lend 

 fprth Stems fix or eight Feet high, 

 furniPn'd with Leaves from bottom 

 to top, which in ^une will be 

 clofely fet with Flowers upon their 

 Edges, which dp make a very 

 beautiful and odd Appearance, and 

 renders it worthy of a Place in e- 

 very good Coiledrion of Plants. 

 This is alio propagated by parting 

 the Roots, as the former, which 

 {liould not be done very often, be- 

 cauie if the Root^ 3.x2 not permit- 

 ted to remain fome time to get 

 Strength, they will produce but 

 weak Shoots, and very few Flow= 

 ^rs i and in the Strength of their 

 Shoots, and Number of Flowers 

 the greatcft Beauty of thefe Plants 

 confifts. 



It is generally fuppos'd, that it 

 was one of theie Plants which the 

 antient Vigors were crown'd with ; 

 and from the Pliablenefs of their 

 Branches, whereby they are very 

 proper to wreath into any Figure, 

 5ind from the Refembhnce thofe 



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Coronets, which wc fee furround* 

 ing the Heads of fome antient Bufts, 

 have to the Leaves of thefe Plants j 

 it is a probable Conjedure at leaft. • 



RUT A ,• Rue. 



The Characiers are; 



The Flower for the mofl Part con- 

 pfts of four hollow Leaves, vphich, 

 are plac'd or iimlarly, and do expand 

 in form of a Roic j out of whpfe 

 Flovper-cup rifes the Tointal, which 

 afterwards becomes a roundiflj Fruity 

 which is generally four- corner' d, and 

 compos'd of four Cells fix'd to an 

 Axis, and full of fmall angular 

 Seeds. 



The Specie.s are j 



I. RuTA ; major, hortenfis, latifo- 

 lia. Mor. Hifl. The common broad- 

 leav'd Garden Kue. 



1. Rut A i hortenfis, minor, tenui- 

 folia. Mor. Hiji. The leffer Garden 

 Rue, with narrow Leaves. 



3. RuTA ; hortenfis, minor, tenui' 

 folia, foliis variegatis argent eis. Boerh, 

 Ind. The I'^lTer Garden Rue, with 

 narrow Leaves, variegated with 

 White. 



4. RuTA ; Chalepenfis, latifoliot 

 florum pstalis 'villis fcatentibus H, 

 L. The broad-leav'd Aleppo Rue., 

 whofe Flower-leaves are beiet with 

 Down . 



j-. RuTA j Chalepenfis, tenui folia, 



jlorum fetalis, villis fcatentibus . Mor^ 



HiJi. Narrow-leav'd Aleppo Rue, 



whofe Flower-leaves are beiet with 



Down. 



6. RuTA ; fylveflrls, major. C. B. 

 P. Greater Wild Rue, 



There are fome other Varieties 

 of thefe Plants which are preferv'd 

 in curious Botanick Gardens, but 

 thofe here mention'd are all the 

 Sorts which I have feen cultivated 

 in the EnglifJy Gardens. 



The fird Sort here mention'd, is 

 that which the College of Phyfici- 

 axis have diredcd to be ufed in 



Medicine, 



