OF GARDENING. 
Sept. 
with Purple. 
Plate II. 
Fig. 3. 
~ aecording to Linn avs is ah Caule fruti- 
coo. 
The Shrub is five Feet high, and full of 
fpreading Branches. The Leaves are long and 
narrow, of a gay gloffy green; and veined 
The Flowers are fmall and white 
a A Ue elo. EAL VD 
This is‘a-very noble Plant, worth the Ambition 
of all who pride themfelves on their exotic T'rea- 
fures; and happily fuited to explain to the Student 
in our Scierice, one of the moft abftrufe Claffes of 
Linnavs. That Author calls it Pafiflora folis 
indtviffs. < Sa 
It is a vaft Plant of a fingular and noble Af- 
pect ; and in its wild State, when well fupported, 
eclipfes. all the vegetable Kingdom. 
Its Stem is ae and unable to fupport stfelf ; 
but it will climb the talleft Trees; its main 
Trunk winding like a Serpent round them, and 
its innumerable Branches fpreading over their | 
broad Tops, and covering their whole Extent 
with Flowers and Fruit, both in the higheft. 
Degree beautiful; and hanging from the out- 
ok Branches in innumerable long and flender 
Twigs, that play with the leaft Wad and are 
loaded with the fame Flowers and Fruit. Itis a 
Native of South America, but has. been raifed in 
Fiolland to its full Beauty. : 
ie Trunk is covered with arough grey Bark... 
‘The tender Stalks are green, and there rife yellow 
Tendrils, with the Leaves. 
Thefe are very large, oblong, broad, fmooth, 
pointed at the Ends, wav’d at the Edges, al 
of a fine green. 
The Flowers rife with the Leaves and Tendrils 
ufually one Leaf, one Flower and one Tendril 
together; and for two Months of Autumn they 
are extremely numerous. They are very large, 
and of a Lilly Whitenefs, variegated on the 
central Part with blue, red and yellow. | 
The Fruit follows fingly each Flower, and is 
of the Shape and Size of an Orange, and of a 
Gold yellow. 
- The Flower more clofely examined difclofes 
more Beauty. It is placed in a large Cup com- 
poled of five coloured Leaves, which are large, 
long and pointed: the Body of the Flower is 
formed of feveral very broad and long Petals, 
which naturally fpread out, and aftetbards fall 
backwards : thefe are of a perfect fnowy White- 
nefs. Within them is placed the Nedcarium, 
forming a triple Coronet. The outer Circle of 
thefe three is large, and compofed of long, flen- 
der twifted Filaments, andis of a “sclottial blue : 
this ftands within the Circle of the Petals, and 
furrounds the Style. 
fmaller,. and. paler coloured. 
The F ilaments rife within the inner Coronet 
of the Neétarium, and they are in Number five. 
They are fixed at the Bafe of the Rudiment of 
the Fruit, and to the Style, which is there of 
with purple Buttons in their Centre, and they are 
The others are fhorter, 
Sept. 
agreeably fcattered over the Tops of the Branches. ates: 
The Fruit is three quarters of an Inch long, 
and moderately thick ; its Surface is glofiy, as 
in the common Capficum, but its Colour is a 
gold yellow. 
PASSION-F LOWER. 
a columnar Form ; and they fpread outwards as. 
they rife in Height. They are flender, and of an 
Orange Scarlet. The Buttons that lie on thefe 
are iiicne and obtufe. 
From the Parts where the Filaments are’ in- 
ferted, the Body of the Style rifes upright, co- 
lumnar and ftrait ; and at its Top from an oval 
Bud, which is the Rudiment of the Fruit, there 
fpread three Divifions which are largeft towards 
the Extremity, and are there crowned each with 
a Kind of Head. | 
Such the Structure of this wonderful Flower ; 
and it is in general common to the other Species 
of the fame Nante. 
‘The World is indebted to Linn aus for ex- 
plaining what that fingular Part, the Neftarium 
of a Flower, is: it appears very particular in ma- 
ny as wé have fhewn, but in none fo much 4s in 
this: arid till we knew that’ fuch a Part was 
common to moft Flowers, and perfpicuous in 
many, none underftood what this triple Circle 
in the Paffion Flower was, or by what Name to call it. 
Hereafter the Student will know, that when — 
befide the Cup, the Petals, the Filaments, and 
the Style, he fees in any Flower {ome other fin- 
gular Part, that is its Nearium. | 
The Form is quite inconftant and uncertain ; 
for Nature in no Part of Plants wantons fo 
much, but whatever be its Figure, this is 
its Name. 
Our Student who has been eatioht to refer. 
- Plants to their Clafs in the Linn wan Syftem by 
the Number of their Filaments, muft not rafhly. 
call this one of the Pentandria of that Author, 
- becaufé thofe Filaments are five. . 
The Number of thofe Threads | shaanieriées 
the Clafs only when they have the common and 
natural Situation, and rife free from the Bottom 
of the Flower; not when they are joined to one 
another, or to the female Part. est 
This we have obferved to him before. There- 
fore as they are in this Flower joined to the fe 
male Part or Style, they conftitute a new Cha- 
racter. This is the Diftinction of a peculiar 
Clafs in the Linn aan Syftem, which he calls _ 
Gynandria. Vt is a Greek Term formed of two 
Words, as the others; and exprefies Plants in 
whofe Flower the male Parts grow upon the fe- 
male. : 
This is te twentieth Cait of Linn aus ; his 
whole Syftem being comprifed in twenty-four ¢ 
and the Paffffora is of the fourth Sectign of that 
Clafs; the firft Seétion comprehending thofe 
which have only two Filaments, the fecond; 
thofe 
