‘'F.O. R- 
2.2.) .Clafs, and orders, Gynandria | Diaudria. Nat: Ord., 
Campanaceny I Lin 
Gen. Ch, €. Fetes double ; one inferior, of two. or 
three, ereat leaves ; the other. /uperior, of from two to fis. 
ereét | ; Peal “tubular, fomewhat bell. 
fhaped 5 tube fhort ; 
Pree. Feemente 
fe ri on ey . » 
ich, _fenecae wanleenily at te their outfide. | 
Ie. comm 
nar eee de 
h. Calyx doubles 3 intenien of two or three leave. 
pe. of three, to fix leaves. 
e above. chara¢ters.are taken from Sain, who. 
-. eltablithed name to 8 purpofe. 
B2: ro 
Corolla tubular, bell.” 
n five or fix aes Capfule of onecell. Seeds., 
FOR 
Carta 15.3». proving na — than. the Decumaria lavlard 
fee Dec 
cpa ee . Mr. Walter who therefore ree 
merit the cenfure caft on him by. Vahl, of changing. an 
ahl. Enom. wv, 
- 390. 
ie 4a Meee Nat. Ord. Sipiatie,, 
- of Tea 
“hi 
not 
and order,. 
Lina. “dijetne, 
‘Ge n, Che man Pa of one ae Asien a four 
Z 
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pony 
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a8 
TD 
“laments two, very fhort ; anthers oblong, fusrowed, 
the ieogeh of. calyx. if. Germen fuperior, ovate, 
fmocth-;: ftyle thread- thaped,. the. length of the calyx ; 
. fligma capitate, ok bed. Fruit v inknown, fuppofed by 
Thunberg to be a. capfule. 
.Ch, Calyx ia oo deep fegments. Corolla bell- 
hhaped, four-cleft. 
FP. fufpenfis. a on known. fpecies. 
os 
(Syringa 
ie. “Kab. 19..t..3, Linn. Syit. Veg. ed. 14. 57, 
Ob 
firft well udertiod this fingular. genus,.as .well as, Phy/- Mart. Mil. Dick v. ws Willd. Ae Pl.v. 1.49. Rengjo; 
dachne. of Fo and, Linneus, which, be, unites with it. Kempf. Amoen. 90 1D on of Miaco and other parts 
He tay, a Yr Konig. in. the Annals. otany, of Japan, where .alfo it is Saher for the bea auty. of i 
confirms the idea, that For/lera and, fome other kindied flowers, which come. forth in April, before the leaves, but 
genera, cqaititute anew, natural, order, t tam-. {oon fall.o It is afbrud, with a climbing /fem,. and long, 
eee Ry ampanulacee ofJuffieu.. Thefe, genera. peek tc pendulous, {mooth branches. Leaves 
ave Lobelia, ei ne Scavolas, Velleiay Siplidiamy and, feveral from each.bud, flalked, ovate, acute, ferrated, 
poflibly. one or two mo e latter 1s the. Ventena atia facet. a ie “earlige ones fimple; the reft alia 
of Dr. Smith in his Exqtic Botany, t. 66, 67, communicated. FYowers from feveral oppofite buds,. towards Any ds of- 
oyiginall » under shame. of fylidium,, ve ie the branches, pay the fize of the blofloms of Ha lefia . 
of the Natur cy, ogiety “of. Berlin and. ee 
uft remain, mL Bl e ing, now, angthe a eiajia: 
1. F, fedifolia, Linn, Suppl. 407. Forft. A&. Noy. 
Upd, v.. 3. 184, te , 61.—Stems.afcending,, Leav 
yeflexed, obtnfe.. Flower-Stalk elongated... Outer. calyx 
-fhorteft.— Native h ains in New. Zeeland, 
-where.it. was difcavered by . botanifts i can name. it 
bears. The reots are perennial » creeping. Stem 
everal, 
fpan.. high,: fub- divided, leafy. Leaves 
imibricated, tongue Banat oh eues entire, recurved,: 
broad , Keel. = Flower- talks. ter- 
{mooti 
afcendin ng,. lax, a 
ees ely. 
Engtower 
orifices, ie fize. oP pela ek cra ladiea. . 
rare, ee a herbarium 
nknown.in, ener ate 
highly EH and. jungueltonsbly.b ardy. 
2.,B. mafeifolia oe Pi. v. 4. 148. ae ad 
wuliginola 5 : dine we Fork. agell 132.)— eS m 
alk. yl c alyx Jon zelk., ae een 
del. Fuego.. i habit thie pretty: plant en a .mois,. 
torming. very, compact level: tufts.. ‘The jiems when fepa-. 
rated are found. covered with imbricated, keeled,. acute 
deaypes. 
The Heeweee are. fmall, foitary, terminal, almolt., ae rid 
imbedded ‘a a, yea or: 
ce 
fi tes Suppatesh [aoe te be 
ss uA, in . honour ‘of ‘the. late: My. William 
Forti. Pat S.,an 
F.S. As Bardenes ta his, maje efty. 
iy sane authory, i a. Treatife. on the Cult ture. and .- 
Ma ant, of.. Fruit.ta ee eee As rece for, the.; 
ac of a: compa tition. for , eprgtetting wvanndi trees. 
from the, injyrigs., f the, a, sated o,en , the o heal, , 
on .which , he, si rewa} ar y_,pan Lies nents; hia ge nus , 
pel spamed, ‘by,Vahl, . the. peek dior ifythia. of, Walter, £ oy... 
33 
N and mig! 
aves, ailing pny oe ch Vahl carried ne effet, thou 
_ Fruit is as yet unknow 
- tetraptera ; but ow, ftreaked. saternelly, ibe ed, each. 
. hanging fom a pak flender ftalk, near am inch. lon 
Piet juftly remarks that. this plant i is totally ante. 
e real, fpecies of Syringa, t well conftitute a 
wn to botanifts.—The F* orfythia would 
ae a defirable acquifition for our gardens, being donbtlefs. 
e to bear our climate as well as the Chinefe Hydrangea, 
se calculated for deco ating bowers, treillis-work,  &c.. 
If bot-nifts — take a pains to furnifh travellers- with, 
drawings of fuch as even i but. y aslo 
from any drawings ie and..deferiptions that happen to. 
exift,, many valuable pee might ftill be obtained Gon 
China and, Sagan. By fuch.a method, at the. command. of. 
e prefent queen of Great Britain,. the: fragrant Aéorus 
graninet mie 
drawao on Chin 
ee was ena and firit nade. known to botanitts ; 3. 
exc seal cae that.it feems to be the 4ecorus Calamus of . 
Lov 
FOR’ , Raimonp- Jeany. in Biography, . vealed alfo in. 
Latin: paekies a phyfician, of autingnithed talents, by. 
was. raifed to the higheft-rank in the profeffiony. 
Ver a of ted 
Pz any: edie cath 
be: a yen of that ae Me had remarked his adicloce 
: for. roe 5 Eee aay him inftruction in” 
fterward s.fent him.to Padua, . 
ong. his fellow-ftudents | , 
a 
o 
a 
i) 
degree 
echari before. the: death of hie p teétor left. him, without-- 
- refource.. ae to. Veni, wher he. was relieved. 
- from . owerty -by,.t the.c encement: of a da malls: but Aden . 
cefsful pragtice’ of. his cae ffion. . Prefled a as he was:by.the . 
_ difficulty of fuabGflencé, he ‘did not refort, to: the — 
