6 = A COMPLEAT BODY 
: Avent. a good one; but he very juttly, in his Defcrip- piscus;-moft of them we fhall explain at large Augult. 
tion, fpeaks of its great Beauty, and recom- in other Places, according to. their Nature ad ——-— 
mends it to the World. their Time of flowering. 
The other Species of Scab casita worthy the At- | Why they are by Linnaus referr’d to. the 
tention of the Curious, are, 1. The MoscneuTE Hisiscus Kind, againft the vulgar Arrange- 
Rose; 2. The Poprar Aucea; 3. The Sagpa~ | ment, will appear ideas the Structure. of ae 
pirra; 4. Lhe Syrian Atcea; 5. 7 he Mani- | Flower, as we-have here defcribed it: that contains 
wot; 6. The Aszt Moscu; 7. The Cuina the Character of the Genus; and the Student is 
Rose; and 8. The Bappzr Ketima. to refer to this Name every Plant with fuch 
Thefe are the Names by which thofe Plants | Flowers. 
are known, but they are all Species of the Hi- ! 
+ GRoeAt BARR OPUS. 
This is a Plant of confiderable Beauty in the form him, that it is one of the Potyanprias 
Flower, and of a pleafing Regularity in its | Lynaus’s Thirteenth Clas : the great Number of 
Plate 1. Growth ; its vulgar Name is GREAT Larx- | its feparate Threads, and their growing to the 
Fig. 3. spur: the eeperility of Authors call it Confolida , Receptacle, not to the Cup, is the Charaéteriftic 
regalts flore majore multiplici: fome, Delphinium \ of that Clafs: its Name is form’d of two Greek 
ty 
Ajacis. Its proper Name is Delphinium: neétariis 
monophyllis caule fi mplici. Thus Linnaeus calls 
it in his feveral Works. 
- branched, and five Foot high. 
ftriated ; the Leaves are divided into very flender 
- Segments; and the Flowers grow in a long and. 
flender Spike, covering a third Part of the | 
Plant. : | 
In Nature they are plain and fimple, but they 
are made fo various by Culture, both in Form 
them. We have reprefented them in each Form 
in the Figure, and fhall explain them firft in their 
natural fingle State, becaufe in that the Cha- 
" raéters are beft difclos’d. 
_ Each Flower is placed upon its feparate Foot- 
ftalk, and there ftands naked without 4a Cup. 
It is compofed of five unequal Petals, arrang’d 
orbicularly. The upper one is blunt and 
emarginated, and terminates behind in a long 
hollow Spur; the other four are broad, pointed, 
and expanded regularly. Within thefe ftands a 
Part not found in all Flowers, and in few fo. 
confpicuous as in this; it is the NecTaRIuM: 
this is a Gland holding a Honey-juice. Its 
Form is various in the feveral Plants where we 
obferve it: in this it is fplit into two Parts, 
and placed forward and upward within the Pe- 
tals of the Flower; behind it 1s extended in 
Length, and there the Spur ferves it as a Scab- 
bard. 
The Filaments are numerous, and are inferted 
on the Receptacle; they are {mall, and turn up 
toward the upper Petal: Within that ftand three 
Styles, with crooked Tops. rs 
This is the Structure of the Flower, when 
fingle according to Nature; and it is thus the — 
Student muft learn from its Parts and their Dif. - 
pofition, the Place it is to hold in the modern 
Syftem. He is made acquainted with two of the | 
Linnzan Clafies in the preceding Pages; and 
here he will learn the Characters of a third, 
This Plant he will perceive belongs to neither of 
the former, becaufe it has many Filaments, and 
they do. not unite into a Body. We are to in- 
| Words, and fignifies a Plant, in whofe Flower 
are many Male Parts. 
| been made more expreffive of its Character, for 
It is a ftately Plant, - ‘upright, | but little | 
_ of which we fhall take Occafion to fpeak here- 
The Root is fibrous, the Stalk is firm af 
 eftablifhes it. 
The Term might have 
it is equally applicable to his Twelfth Clafy, 
after; but the. annex’d Diftinétion fufficiently 
When the Student finds a Plant, whofe Flower 
has numerous loofe Filaments, and thefe adhere 
to the Infide of the Cup, he is to place it 
under this Twelfth Clafs. hereafter to be ex- 
| plain’d; but when thole Filaments grow from 
and Colour, that fcarce any Defcription can fuit — 
the Receptacle, it belongs to the Poryanpria, 
or Thirteenth, 
In all thefe Characters there are certain Refiric: 
| tions; that the Threads rife feparate and free; 
| that they have Styles in the fame Flower; and 
| that the Threads have no particular Diftinctions 
among themfelves in Point of Length. The firft 
Character, their growing free, feparates thefe 
Clafies from the MowapeLpuia, already defcribed, 
and fome others; and the other Particularities here 
named diftinguith them from certain other Clafies, 
which we fhall explain when we come to Plants 
belonging to them. . We have preferr’d this 
Method of gradually introducing the Student 
to the Knowledge of the fafhionable and favou- 
rite Syftem, as it will thus come the moft 
eafily. The acquiring this is efteem’d the con- 
fummate Height of Botanical Knowledge, and is 
earneftly defir’d by all who ftudy it: let the 
Reader lay before him a Flower, while he reads 
| our Defcription of its Parts; and he will find it 
| perfectly eafy. This may always be done, becaufe 
we treat of Plants now in Flower, and no other ; 
adapting each Week’s Publication to that Week’s 
Produce. | 
As the Number and pra pe of the Fila- 
ments in the Larkspur Flower, fhews it to be- 
long to the Poryanpria Clafs, the Number of 
‘its Styles, being three, fhew it is one of the 
Tryoynia: a fubordinate DiftinGion intoSeions 
being founded in moft of the Clafs as in the firft, 
explain’d under Cannacorus, and to be deter- 
min’d and underftood in the fame Manner. 
This is the fingle great Larxspur, whofe Co- 
lour is naturally chick or red ; for there is without 
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