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ee hasten the fmall ftar of rae Soar ‘minimu = ; 
nean ftar of Bethle pyren res 
broad ad ftar of Bechichens (0! atito jane eed 
mida ee a — ehem raga : Re pos ther 
und i than if : 
The fmall off off-fet bulbs heals be planted out in nurfery rows 
n beds for fome time, i peal large to be finally fet 
ut where they are to fhould have a light 
fandy foil, little aeuuret 
The afterwards require the fame management as other 
hardy bulbs, but they fhould be removed a) aa year, 
as when let remain longer they become wea ULB. 
The two laft forts fhould have the off-fets or flips peas 
at the fame time pie ps mane lled wit 
ramey fo 
They 
i utumn as in the other forts, and after being kept 
alittle while = of the ground, be replanted in the begin- 
ni Np of the a 
The hardy pone are all highly ornamental among other 
flowering bulbous-rooted plants, in the borders, clumps, 
&e. 
‘And the two lat kinds — variety in the aes of 
g bulbous-rooted for 
from ogu:, a bird, and.y 
fhape _ the aoe Sait Parad. 54. Ait. H 
ed. 2 327. Clafs and cee Henandria Trig isynia. Nat. 
Ord. Tripealtee, Lina. June, 
Gen. Ch. Cal. none, unlefs the c 
fuch. Cor. Petals fix, lanceolate, inferior, feffile, {preading, 
equal, ecru with a neCtarifero 3 depreffion in the 
. Filaments fix, infertel into the re- 
‘ceptacle, awl- fe, fhorter than the corolla, unconnected 
with it, deciduous; anthers roundifh-heartfhaped. P% 
Germen fuperior, ro roundith, furrowed ; ftyles three, divari- 
ey flerider, the length of the fta oa ag aa s; ftigmas 
bluntifh. Peric. Capiule ovate, witht 2 oe three 
cells and three valves. Seeds fever ea anes ranged in two 
rows along the edges of each partitio 
Eff. Petals fix, equal oe di 
into the re 
rolla be taken for 
Styles ie cucue 
We have arety alluded to nie genus; fee the ob- 
Paiou under the generic character of MELANTHIUM. 
he only {pecies known 2 us is, 
1, O. viride. ed Eee (0. aa cum; Salif. 
; Thunb. P 4. Lin 
h r a 
leafy, two or three inches high. Leaves thea thing, alter- 
nate, {preading, lanceolate, entire, rather glaucous, {mooth, 
io 
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pi tle the upper ones — a axillary, folitary, 
n long ftalks which a mid at Peta 
nue: with a Sueous age channe led. There can 
no doubt of Mr. Andrews’s fynonym, cae he epee 
the leaves as not glaucous. 
OrwniTHOGLossuM, or Lingua avis, has alfo been ufed, 
by fome authors, as a name for the feed of the ah. 
ORNITHOLOGY, is 2 word derived from the Greek 
ogusy @ bird, and Asyo;, a difcourfe, and denotes that branch 
of natural hiftory which confiders and defcribes birds, their 
natures and kinds, their form, external and internal, and 
teaches their economy and ufes. nmany of thefe particu- 
ars we yoid ae ted at large peel the word Brrps, Ana- 
tomy of 3 hich we refer the rea as we do alfo to the 
feveral ahs in their alphabetical aie. Birds have been 
defined as two -footed animals, covered with feathers, and 
tribe, they have warm blood, a heart with two ventricles 
and two auricles, and lungs for the purpofe of refpiration. 
They are, however, ee from both by their feet, 
se as asia as by the circum- 
fiiftorical View 
hiftory of this peed 
ten ; we fhall confine Baie: ie a or er ee Among 
the ancients we may notice the writings of Ariitotle and 
Pliny. The former compofed no particular treatife on birds, 
the 
en .writ- 
ted t 
iets “of ae nee he has alfo given an imperfe&t nomencla- 
ture, and remarks on the “auverlified modes of nidification, 
and fome interefting obfervations on the family of eagles. 
Pliny’s defcription of the feathered race is contained chiefly 
ia his tenth book, but it is not at all precife, and is mixed 
has fo eminently contributed, 
uficn of a. pane s ee 
nown to the ancients. 
ong thofe who firft excited a tafte, on the continent, 
for the ftudy of ornithology, and for a methodical diftribu- 
oo Peter 
ry of Bi 
a aod by wooden cuts, was publithed in 1555 
t Paris. The principle of claffification ehh he adopts, is 
ohies founded on the circumftances of habitation oa food, 
and only occafionally on external forms and chara : It Is 
accordingly very defective. His a aes are _tolerably 
uate re- 
very 1 
“ oe he 
feveral paflages which may be ftill perufed with intereft and 
inftruGtior.”” : : ; re 
‘The 
