44 



MOST-TENDER ANNUALS. 



and fuddenly in- 

 clining when 

 touched 



Ice Plant, or Dia- 

 mond Ficoides, cu- 

 rious in its iialks 

 and leaves, being 

 overfpread with 

 chryltaline or icy- 

 like globules 



Egg Plant, or Me- 

 longena, fingular 

 in producing large 

 egg-fhaped fruit, 

 white, purple, and 

 very curious 



, — White fruited 



— Purple 



— Smooth ftalked 



— Thorny llalked, or 

 mad-apple 



Marvel of Peru 



— White flowered 



— Yellow 

 ^Red 

 i— Purple 



. — White and yellow 



— White and purple 



— Purple and yellow 



— Red and yellow 

 — ^ Striped flowered 



— bweet fcented 



— ' Long flowered, 



— Two-forked night- 

 fmelling 



Martynia 



— Annual Martynia 

 with a large red 

 flower 



Melon, Snake- 



fhaped 



— Cucumber fhaped 

 Both thefe forts for 



the Angularity of 

 their fruits 

 Stramonium 



— Double purple 

 flowered 



— Double ftripcd 



— White 



— Lemon coloured 

 Sensitive Plant, 



curious in the fen- 

 fitive motion of its 

 leaves, which^ when 

 touched, quickly 

 fhrink, and all the 

 fmall lobes contract 



— Annual, double 

 yellow flowered 



— 'Humble fcnfitive 



plant 

 Zinnia 



— Red flowered 



— Yellow 



.havin: 



\ery 



hu. 



The 



