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 aré fix in Number, and. they are long, narrow, | 
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from the Petals, and from the Filaments and 
- Style, that- Part is_.the-.NeCtarium- of the 
Flower. 3 
This is the Cafe in the prefent Inftance. | 
This fingular Part is the Nectarium of this, 
and all other Flowers of the fame Structure. 
Having thus-explained the Nature ofthe fe- 
veral Parts, “the. Sefucture of the whole} ill be 
eafily defcribed ba. 
- The Neétarium occupies the Centre of the 
Flower, and is its moft confpicuous Part. This is 
very large, hollow, and fpreading. 
Manner of a Funnel, 
Edge i into twelve Segments. ew 1. 
The Petals furround this, and are niche on 
its tubular Part a little above the Bafe. They 
of the fame fnowy White with it, and turned 
back at the Ends. 
The Filaments are fix in Numbif, and. hee 
Place of Origin is particular. . i | 
They rife not front the Centre of the Flowers: 
but from the Edge of the Neétarium between 
the Segments. : be 
In the Centre hae ee ‘Seale; eh is ingle 
and ftrait. The Seed-Vefiel is roundith, but 
marked with three Ridges, and eontains nume- + 
rous Seeds. “ 
The Student will. know,, that as the Filaments _ 
| them: a , 
This, with the common Culture of tender 
row regularly in Difpofition and Proportion, 
thets Number is to eftablifh the Character es the 
Clafs to which this Plant belongs. 
It is one of the fixth Clafs of Linn. £vs, thre 
Hexandria , and as the Style is fingle, it is of 
* the fist Sedtion, the Monogymia. 
It is tubu- , 
lar at the Bottom, and thence expands in the 
and is ‘in, eat at the | 
The Plant is a Native of the Eaft, mache it 
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grows. wild. jim fandy. Places ea en 
Its Culture is indicated by this { by this fhort ec 
Tt muft have a dry, light Soil, to imitate its 
natural Earth; and ear to mimick the Sun’s 
Power in its proper Climate. 
It mightbe produced frompeemas, Wicks it 
yields ini Abuitdance ; but this would be a te- 
dious Way,. for the Seedlings ace feveral Years 
before they flower. 
The -beft Method, sicsebose: is s OF: Gite 
which are produced in Abundance, and which 
“mutt be taken off, otherwife they hurt the flow- 
ering of the main Root. 
CThele OF-fefS" or ithe ‘entire’ “Roofs beival 
from the Indies, are to be planted with Care in 
Pots in a proper pees : and the beft for ue 
-Purpofe is. this... . ean 
Take of fine perth; 
in a dry, rich Pafture, ee freed from all Frag- 
‘Tments of ‘Roots, one Bufhel ; of Earth from the 
Bottom | of a Wood-Pile, half a Bufhel ; and of 
eats Sand a Péek add half “Work all this well 
‘together, and let it lie — to the Air, Sun, 
and Dews.a Fortnight. . Mae aba eros eae 
Then- put ‘into sees ‘eftddls fiz’ Pots’ as 
much of dessa Compoft as will three Parts 
fill them. . 
~ Upon this place the Roots, and then fill up 
_the ge Saath 4 dettling A was? Earth about 
Exotic Plants, will make them flower in very 
“ereat Pérfection. 
They will require fome Water at Times; but if | 
“that be given carelefsly, 3 it will be very injurious. 
Sat ex eg or yee cape 
4. PLO RA PELE HEMANTHUS, oe 
_ This is another Flower of extream Beauty, , 
as well as Singularity ; ; and every. beta worth. 
~ Notice. 
It is wr the bulbous Kind like the Sestnad,: ind 
has the fame Advantage of, flowering at this Sea- 
fon; moft of this Kind etiplaying their Beauties 
in the. Spring. 
- In Englifh it is dalled the Blood Phieder; che 
African Tulip, and the Bloody Lilly. 
The Latin Writers in general name it Heman- 
thus, and Hemanthus Africanus. 
Linnavs Calls it, Hemanthus foliis lingue-for- 
mibus planis : Haemanthus with plain and Toneue- : 
like Leaves. 
It has been thus fuppofed a Kind of Tulip by 
fome ; a Narciffus by others ; 
referred to the Lillies; but all very improperly, 
as will be feen by the Structure of the Flower, 
which is difting from thefe and from all other 
Kinds. i 
_ TheRootis bulbous and vaft;, it equals aChild’s 
Its Colour is white, and it is compofed 
of thick and numerous Coats. From its Bafe run 
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pears upon this at its firft rifing 
and by a third Set » 
Fibres, whofe Grofthefs anfwers to the Bignefs of 
the Root. They are equal to Crow Quills. 
~The Stalk rifes: to ‘the Height ‘of tweaty 
| Inches, and is extreamly fingular and beautiful: it 
is very thick, fomewhat flatted, ‘Of a pale oteen; 
and {potted and clouded: all over with white and 
purple, fo that it ebay a Piece of et 
Porphyry. 
The Head: whence thie F lower i is to burtt; aps 
; and is then of — 
the Bignefs of a large Wallnur. Its Colour’ is 
Bawa; and its Shape fomewhat refembles that 
of the Stalk, for it is a little flatted. 
At length when the Plant has its ‘due Height, | 
this burfts and difclofes-its Beauties - sit appears, . 
and it is called, ‘a fingle Flower ; but we Tate 
teach our Student to underftand the —— of 
Plants more accurately. 
When this Head-opens there appear fix Leaves, 
‘Thefe: being clofed together formed the Head, 
and now open they are underftood by common 
Writers to be Petals of a Flower. They are 
very large, and throughout of a Blood-red, in- 
fide 
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