NuM BER VI. 
For cue Beginning of OC TO BE R. 
FEORA © the 
Odtob. —Senfe of ‘the Elegance in this fingular 
i Plant, has made it univerfal in our Gar- 
full dite, carrying all the Marks of Health, 
decaying. ; 
Ats Name among our Gardeners is-the Globe A- 
maranth. ‘The common Writers call it Amaran- 
thoides , and fome with us, the Lverlafting Flower. 
This Name has been given it from the Time 
the Flowers will retain their Luftre. The French 
have call’d it, for the fame Reafon, L’ dmmortel, 
The never-dying Flower. 
Names form’d from thofe of other Plants, with 
which fuch as call’d by them are thought. to have 
a fome Refemblance, are juftly rejected in the pre- 
Ps! fent improv’d State of Botany; therefore the for- 
| mer Denominations of this Plant, Amarantho affi- 
nis, and Amaranthoides, are difas’d, and it is di- 
ftinguifhed by a Name appropriated to it, and 
given to no other Genus; this is Gomphrena. 
@ the fame Genus, Linn aus calls this, Gomphrena 
| caule eretio foliis ovato lanceolatis, capitulis folitariis 
pedunculis diphyllis: that is, upright Gomphrena, 
with pointed oval ILeaves and fincle Heads, with 
_ two-leav’d Pedicles, . 
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PLEASURE-GARDEN. 
dens; where it glows at this Seafon with its _ 
vhen the Generality of the AS cay a ge are 
-ftant Joints ; 
‘ber. 
By way of Diftinction Sika: the other Species of . 
SR GOP AT 6 ee 
fey ALE, ‘¥, 
Curious Plants and inca: now zn their Po feition | 
1. Ghbular- fowr'd GOMPHRENA, 
- Thofe who are not acquainted with the Nature of Octob. 
our Science, will exclaim or fmile on reading. fuch 
a Name; but they are to be told, its Length is 
needful to diftinguifh the Species from all others ; 
and that it has its Merit with the Prolixity, for 
it contains an abfolute Defcription of the Plant. . 
Ours may be fhorten’d from the Particulars con- 
tain’d in this. 
- The Root is fibrous, and io Plant rifes to two 
Foot in Height. Its Stalk is full of a fhow-white 
Pith, branched, round, and of a pale whitifh Co- 
lour, often fpotted with Purple near the Ground, 
naturally purple at the Joints, and coyered with 
_a light white Hairynefs. 
The Leaves are plac’d naturally in Pairs at di- 
but luxuriant Nature, when we give 
the Plant good Culture, often exceeds that Num- 
‘They are fupported on fhort Foot-ftalks, 
and they are whitifh on the upper Side; and on the 
under of a light pale green. 
The Flowers are numerous, and of an uncom- 
mon Luftre: they terminate the Branches in round 
Heads; and often others reft in the Bofoms of the 
Leaves. 
- Thefe Figas are form’d of glittering purple 
Scales, firm to the Touch, dry, oblong, and 
pointed; and from among thefe Scales burft - 
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