‘Sept, 
OF GA RSD EF N-Eee: 
When fully ripe, it is of a fine gold Colour; 
and it then {pits naturally.at the Point, and dif= 
- clofes many large Seeds of a gold yellow, within. 
a bloody Rind, which falls eee over the 
Infide of the Fruit and them. - 
Such is the Figure of this fingular Plant: 
it remains that we *etiiuike into its Place in the 
Linwaan Syftem. It is of a Clafs different from 
all thofe we have defcribed before, and it will, 
when rightly underftood, lead to the Knowledge 
- of a great Article of that Syftem. 
of its Filaments : 
he finds three; he is about to refer it to the third 
are call’d hermaphrodite Flowers ; 
The Student naturally tears open a Flower to 
this Purpofe, and feeks the Number and Difpofition 
probably, in the firft he takes, 
Clafs of the Trianprt, for this Reafon: but we 
mutt {top him, and defire that he will pull another. 
In this he finds no proper or perfect Filaments ; 
he fees three Fibres ftanding loofe, but they have no 
Buttons on them. Thefe Buttons he knows to be ef- 
fential to Filaments marking the Charaéters of 
- Plants ; and he then finds them in this Flower defec- 
tive. Here he finds a Style rifing from the Rudi- 
ment of a Fruit plac’d underneath the Cup; and 
on referring again to the Flower where he found 
perfect Faamencs ; he there perceives no Style. - 
Tis Time to explain this to him. In the Flow- 
ers we have hitherto fele¢ted for his Examination, 
- the Male and Female Parts have been plac’d together 
in each. Thefe, which are the moft common, 
but there are 
others, in which thofe Parts are-feparated farther: 
this Plant is an Inftance. The Body of the 
Flowers is alike in all, yet fome of them contain 
only Filaments, and others only the Style. The 
 firft are call’d Male Flowers, becaufe they have 
on the fame Stem: 
the male Parts perfect, and no female: the others. | 
are call’d Female Flowers, and they. have no per- 
feet Male Organs. 
It happens in this Plant, that the male aad fe- 
male Flowers, tho’ diftinét in themfelves, grow 
in others, only male Flowers 
grow on fome Plants; and, on other Plants of the 
fame kind, only female. os 
The latter Kinds we fhall take Occafion to {peak 
of more largely, when we treat of fome one. off 
them: 
they are only nam’d here, to fhew the Di- 
ftinction, and illuftrate the Denominations of the 
 Clafs. : 
_.very agreeably. . 
Linn us places in one Arrangement, thofé 
. Plants which have male and femiale Flowers pro- 
duc’d feparately on the fame Plant. Momorpicais 
one of thefe. The Clafs is his twenty-firft, and he 
calls it Monorecrta; aTerm form’d of two Greek 
Words, and expreffing, that the Flowers, diftingly 
. Male and Female, grow on the fame Plant. ‘This 
is the Clafs of the Momorpica. But it remains 
to enquire, under what Section it is placed in that 
larger Arrangement. 
We fhall have Occafion to explain to the Reader, 
on a fubfequent Inftance, a Clafs diftinguifhed by 
the Name SyncENneEs14a; whofe Character is, that 
the Buttons of the Filaments are gather’d into a 
Cylinder, and united in that Form. Here it is 
fufficient to fay, that as there are monoecious Plants, 
with the feparate Characters of moft of the other 
Claffles: wherefore thofe Characters become, on 
this Occafion, only the Marks of Sections. 
This is a tender annual Plant ; but it’s Culture 
is not difficult. . 
~The Seeds muft be taken from the ripe Fruit, 
and preferved till Spring. 
_ “They are then to be fown upon a Fot-Bed 
covered fix Inches thick with mellow Earth; for 
the Seeds are often deftroy’d when this Coat of 
Earth is too thin. 
Caution to the Gardener, to make it thicker than 
he has feen others do it: all Plants will thrive 
| better; but to this Species it is effential. 
_ Another Hot-Bed is to be prepar’d to receive 
thefe Plants, or as many of them as are intended 
to be rais’d, when they have got fome Height. 
Into this they are to be tranfplanted when they 
have four or five Leaves; and they mutt be wa- 
_ter’d and fhaded till they have taken Root. 
After this Time they muft have a little Water 
every other Day, and as much Air as the Wea- 
ther will permit. When they are well crown, 
they are to be planted into large Pots of light 
rich Earth; and fome of them may be ventur’d 
in a warm Border in the open Air: the potted 
ones muft be plac’d where they can have Warmth 
and Shelter. They will run up againit the Back 
of the Building, and cover a Part of the Wall 
They will not endure much 
Cold; but, if the Seafon favour, thofe which are 
moft expos’d will produce the beft and fineft-co- 
dour’d Fruit. - 
It will be a good general. 
ete: The 
The Beauty of this Plant claims for it a Place 
in the beft Colleétion: This is not limited to the 
_ Flowers, tho’ they are large and noble; but the 
Manner of Growth, and fingular Elegance of the 
Leaf, confpire to it. 
Its vulgar Name is Aset Moscu: fome call 
it AicypTian Matitow. The common Writers 
treat of it under the Name of Atcrea /EcyPTIA- 
- ca, and Fios Moscuatus. It is properly a Spe- 
cies of the Hisiscus. 
N° 4. 
MUSK HIBISCUS. 
Linnaus has nam’d it, Higiscus foliss fub- 
peltato cordatis feptemangularibus ferratis bifpidis. 
’Tis not an eafy Name but a very expreffive one: 
its Senfe is, Higsiscus, with ‘rough, ferrated, 
heptangular, cordated, and fubpeltated Leaves. 
The Senfe of thefe Terms will be very well com- 
prehended. The lower Leaves have feven Points, 
the upper five or three, as he will fee in our Figure. 
-and he will obferve that there is a _heart-like 
Dent at the Bafe; and that -the Stalk is noe 
M inferted 
