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the fpecific charafter, tliough they are obvioufly a mere va- 

 riety of the foregoing^ 



3. T. racemofus. CUifter-flowered Taragon-blotTom. 



Thunb. Prodr. 145 " Leaves elliptical, pointed, finely 



tootlied ; dcnfely woolly beneath." — From the fame country. 

 This is perhaps but another variety. The leavss of T. cam- 

 phoraluj vary in acutenefs. Willdenow feems accidentally to 

 have omitted this in tranfcribing. It fhould have been his 

 n. 3. 



4. T. lanceolatus. Lanceolate Taragon-blofTom. Thunb. 



Prodr. 1 4 J. Willd. n. 4 " Leaves elliptical, entire, 



fmootli." — Gathered at the Cape by Thunberg. His fpe- 

 cific name is exceptionable, when compared with the cha- 

 rafters of this and the reft of the fpecics. We muft rely 

 on him for the fynonyms of the following, it being his own 

 difcovery ; or we (hould have prcfumed, without feeing 

 fpecimens, that the plant before us might be T. glaber of 

 Linnxus. 



5. T. Jentatus. Toothed Taragon-bloflbm. Thunb. 

 Prodr. 145. Willd. n. 5. (T. glaber; Linn. Suppl. 360, 

 according to Thunberg. ) — i' Leaves oblong, Entire or 

 toothed ; (lightly downy beneath." — Gathered by Thun- 

 berg at the Cape. We have feen no fpecimen. Linnaeus 

 defcribes his plant as extremely like T. camphoratus, but 

 quite fmooth, and without any fmell. It varies with nar- 

 rower or broader leaves, fometimes entire, fometimes 

 toothed. 



6. T. ericoiJes. Heath-like Taragon-bloffom. Lmn. 

 Suppl. 360. Willd. n. 6. — Leaves oblong, fmooth, im- 

 bricated in four rows. Calyx in four deep fegments 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope. A n^id Jljrub, with 

 copious, round, irregulai- branches, whofe points fometimes 

 taper into a fpinous point. Leaves like thofe of many 

 Erica, minute, fcarcely a line in length, elliptic-oblong, ob- 

 tufe, entire, concave, fmooth on both fides, dotted, aro- 

 matic when rubbed, imbricated in four rows on the very 

 Ihort, oppofite, lateral fhoots. Floiuers folitary at the end 

 of thofe fhoots, each on a (hort filky ftalk. They are er- 

 roneoufly termed " conferti" in the Supplement, being no 

 otherwHfe crowded than becaufe the little branches which 

 bear them are fo^ Calyx in four very deep, elliptical, 

 fmooth, reddifh divifions, very aromatic. Florets few, mi- 

 nute, concealed in the copious woolly hair, which is twice 

 the length of the calyx. 



Linnxus juftly obferves of this laft fpecies, that its ge- 

 nus is rather doubtful. We conceive it might as readily be 

 fuppofed an Eriocephalus, and if the leaves could by any 

 means be called filiform, we might guefs it to be E. glaber, 

 Thunb. Prodr. 168, a fpecies not adopted in our account of 

 that genus ; (where Lamarck Illuftr. t. 717, ought to have 

 been quoted after Juff. 186.) The above conjefture is 

 ftrengthened by Thunberg's having mentioned no Tarcho- 

 nanthus ericoides, nor, as far as we can difcover, has he de- 

 fcribed the (hrub in queftion under any other name. We 

 beg leave to remark that the fpecies of this whole genus, 

 except the original one, are involved in much uncertainty, 

 nor are the materials with which we are furnifhed fufBcient 

 to enable any botanift to form an opinion about them. 



Tauchonanthus, in Gardening, contains a plant of the 

 flurubby evergreen exotic kind, of which the fpecies that is 

 moft commonly cultivated is the (hrubby African fleabane, 

 (T. camphoratus,) which has a ftrong woody ftem, that 

 rifet to the height of twelve or fourteen feet, fending out 

 many woody branches at the top, which may be trained to 

 ? regular head. 



Method of Culture. — This is a plant that may be increafed 



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by cuttings, which (hould be planted out in the fpring or 

 early fummer feafons, in pots filled with light mould, giving 

 them fhade and water occafionally. They foon ftrike root, 

 and in three or four months may be potted o(f into feparate 

 pots, aflFording them (hade and water as before, and placing 

 them under (belter. They alfo ftrike root in the fummer 

 feafon, when planted in a common border, and covered with 

 hand-glalFes, and may in thefe cafes be potted off in the 

 autumn. 



Afterwards they require the management of other hardy 

 greenhoufe plants. The plants do not produce ripe feeds 

 in this climate. 



They afford variety in thefe different fituations. 



TARDA Avis, in Ornithology, a name given by many 

 to the buftard, more commonly known among authors by 

 the name otis. 



TARDETS, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Lower Pyrenees ; 6 miles S. of Mau- 

 leon. 



TARDIGRADUS, or Sloth, in Zoology. See Bra- 



DYPUS. 



TARDO, in the Italian Mufic, is ufed to denote a flow 

 movement, being much the fame as largo. 



TARDOIRE, or Tardouere, in Geography, a river of 

 France, which runs into the Charente, near Rouchefou- 

 cault. 



TARDOU, El, a town of Spain, in the province of 

 Cordova ; z8 miles W. of Cordova. 



TARDSONG, a town of Thibet; 250 miles E. of 

 Laff"a. N. lat. 29° 54'. E. long. 95° 34'. 



TARE, in Botany. See Vetch. 



Tare, in Agriculture, a well-known plant of the vetch 

 kind, of which there are two forts ; the common purple- 

 flowered fpring or fummer tare, and the purple-flowered 

 wild or winter tare ; the latter of which fort is by much the 

 hardieft. 



Numerous experiments in the culture of thefe different 

 kinds of tares, were made by the Rev. Mr. Laurents, in 

 order to afcertain their differences in hai'dinefs, for which we 

 refer to the Correfted Agricultural Siu-vey of the County of 

 Suffolk. 



It is evident from the tall, clofe, hardy growth and fuccu- 

 lent quality of the winter tare, that it muft be a plant of 

 much value to the farmer, as affording an abundant produce 

 of green food for animals ; and by being alternated with 

 thofe of the grain kind, in amehorating or preventing the 

 exhauftion of the land that muft otherwife take place. It 

 has been fuggefted by the writer of the Agricultural Survey 

 of the County of Middlefex, that it may be the means of 

 enabling the arable farmer to fupport as much live-ftock as 

 the grazier, as while crops of this fort remain upon the 

 ground, they afford larger fupplies of the beft kind of green 

 food on the acre than the moll rich and fertile grafs lands ; 

 and they may be taken from the ground at fo early a period 

 in the fummer feafon, as on the friable loamy foils to admit of 

 a clean crop of turnips, &c. being obtained from the fame 

 land in the fame year ; and of thole of the more heavy kinds 

 being prepared and fown with wheat. And while they are 

 capable of being raifed with fuccefs on moft forts of foils and 

 fituations, they fupport and fatten cattle and flieep of dif- 

 ferent fizes and breeds in an expeditious manner. And 

 further, they afford a good preparation for other forts of 

 green crops, and in that way keep up the fucceflion of fuch 

 forts of food for the fattening of additional numbers of 

 animals, and in that manner afford abundance of manure in 

 fituations where it could not otherwife be pi-oeured. Qn 



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