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Curious Plants and Flowers now in their Perfettion, — 
I. CANARY DRACOCEPHALUM, called _CEDRONELLA. 
Pp HIS is a Plant of lefs Beauty than 
: ~ many others; but diftinguifhed by its 
_ Fragrance; which is of a peculiar Kind, 
refembling the more delicate of the refinous 
Drugs. | : 
The Vulgar have, for this Reafon, called it the 
Balm of Gilead Plant; and fome have thence been 
led to fuppofe the liquid Refin of that Name its 
Produce ; ; but that is a creat Error. 
mon Writers call it Moldavica Melifja Canarina, 
and by two peculiar Names, Camphorofma and 
Cedronella: its proper Name is Dracocephalum flo- 
vibus fpicatis foliis compofitis ; Dragon’s Head with 
fpiked Flowers and compolite Leaves. 
It is an herbaceous Plant of two or three Feet 
high : the Stalk is {quare, tolerably firm, upright 
and branched. The Leaves are numerous, and. 
srow with Regularity, tlree on each Foot- 
; ftalk toward the Top of the Plant; 3 and fome- 
times five on thofe nearer the Bottom. They 
are oblong, ferrated, fharp pointed, and of a 
pleafant green. 
The Flowers ftand in thick Tufts or fhort 
Spikes, terminating the main Stalk and all its 
Numb. II. 
The com-_ 
Benches they are final, and of a pale red, 
deeper above, and often whitifh below. When 
thefe are fallen, four Seeds ftahd naked in the 
Bottom of each Cup ; and from thefe the Plant 
is to be raifed again. 
The Flower examined clofely is Salli to be 
formed of a fingle Leaf, tubular at the Bot- 
tom, and gaping with a Kind of Mouth. The 
upper Lip is arched and fimple; the lower is di- 
vided into three Segments ; and under the Co- 
_vert of the upper Lip ftand four Filaments, 
Our Student has not yet met with any Plant 
with this Number; but he muft not be hafty 
) thence to refer j it to the fourth Clafs, : 
The Number of thefe Filaments never dij- 
ftinguithes | the Place of the sie but when they 
are fimply difpofed.. 
Sept. 
SHORES 
He will hereafter meet with Flowers in which - 
there are four. equal Threads; but in this it is 
otherwife : two he will fee are longer than the 
others. The Difference is not much,; but it is 
abfolute and invariable. On. this depends the 
finding to what Clafs the Plant belongs ; for 
there is a peculiar one for all thofe, two of 
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