74. A COM 
Octob. the Outfide; fo that the front View of a | 
Flower affords in them one Colour; the Back |-¢ 
another: and the Buds fhewing only the Out- 
fides of thefe Petals, are of a deep Violet 
purple. | | 
In the fame Manner the Difk, which is com- 
pofed of numerous feparate little Flowers, is of 
a Violet Purple before they open, and of a 
moft elegant Straw Colour when they expand. 
The Seeds are flat and membranaceous. 
The Student in the Linnazan Syftem will 
be ftartled on looking into this Flower, and jy 
fcarce know what to think of a Plant, in which 
PLEAT BODY 
its Centre, inftead of Filaments anda, Style, offers — 
to his Eye feparate and perfeét Flowers, ranged 
in aneven Clufter. _ | 
This is one of the Plants the common Au- 
thors have called Corymbiferous; and many 
| Flowers, tho’ overlooked by the Incurious, are of 
’ this fingular Structure. 
Tt is one of the Syngenefia Polygamia of ‘Lin: | 
nus 3 Plants whofe Antherz unite, and whofe | 
Fructification is performed in various Manners. 
We have led the Student toward an Under- 
Standing of this abftrufe Clafs, by the Account - 
given in our laft Number of the Ethiopian 
‘Tanzy ; and having there fo far cleared the Way, 
we may here, without Difficulty; lead him-to 
the compleat Underftanding of the Clafs. ~~ 
“We there fhewed him €lufters of {mall 
- Flowers united into little Heads, and ftanding 
in them naked: We here prefent to his Eye | 
Clufters of little Flowers difpofed in the fame 
Manner together, but furrounded by radiated 
Pea | | 
The Head of the Tanzy fornied what is cal. | 
led a naked, and this a radiated, difcoide Flower. 
_ This fhews him that he is to confider thefe | Tipen th 
gaudy Petals as no more than an extraneous Or- 
e 
nament ;~and that the little Flofcules making up 
the Difk, are the proper and diftinét F lowers of 
the Plant ; containing-the Parts of F ructification, 
and fingular in nothing but that they are 
thus collected into a Head, and edged" with: 
‘Petals. ONG 109 G95) PE Dste 
Thus far underftanding the Nature of the 
“iNO9 | polygamia necefaria of Linn aus. - 
_ . The Student now underftands the Terms; and 
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‘the 
3 and he will then per- 
ceive they differ effentially. | 
Let him take carefully one Flower from the 
Rim, and another from the Centre; and open 
them tenderly, not to difturb their internal Parts. 
| He will find-in the F lower taken from the Centre 
| five Threads or F ilaments, and the Rudiment of 
the Fruit with its Style, which is very flender: — 
4 but in that he took -from the Edge, he will-fee 
| only the Rudiment of the Fruit with ; 
ts Style; 
Know the Clafs; and in this he will find the An. 
thereon the five Filaments united into a Cylinder: 
| this fhewsit tobe of the f yngenefeous Clafs; andthe 
various Flowers in the fame Head thew jt alfo of 
the polygamous Kind, or thofe whofe Fructifi- 
cation is performed different Ways. 
‘This Preparation of Nature is in {o 
from — 
This Plant therefore is one of the Syncene/fj 
the Syz 
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Flower, let him examine its external Stru@ure!  heshas mattered the moft dificult Point in the 
firft, and then the internal Parts of each Flofeule. | t 969 to nom 
- The whole Flower, for fo the Difk and the ra. 
diated Parts are called together, ‘is placed in a | 
large Cup divided deeply ‘into fixteen’’ or eloht- | .<eSOTeSe | is sit 
: . _. This Plant is to be raifed originally. from 
| Seeds, and afterwards to be encreafed by parting 
/ the:Rootgsds 6 sao +3 4 ee 
teen long and narrow Segments: the Numbér 
not conftant or-certain. ~ Thefe aré pointed ’at thé 
Ends, and equal in Bignefs?'O~ M557g oF gf 
‘This Cup is formed for ‘thé Reception both | | 
| Good Hopes and by that Means raife the F lower — 
of the Flowers of the Difk, and ‘the’ Sub: 
ftance on which they grow: and though ‘in ‘this 
| and the Plants may very well be produced: from 
Plant, and all others of its Kind; it be com 
pofed but of a fingle Series of Seoments; ap | 
others of the fyngenefeous Tribe’ it’ confifts “of 
more, and they are difpofed in various Manners. 
“Within this Cup ftand the Petals ‘difpofed as 
Rays, and thefe furround the Difk, which is the 
Clutter of the proper and diftiné: Flowers; » 
Thefe let the Student obferve with an atten: 
tentive Eye. He will perceivé, as he infpects 
Bed in Spring, with thofe of the 
Lirnn An Syftem. 
> Culture of the TETuroptan Maryconp, > 
\ The Dutch get’ their Seeds from the Caine of 
in great PerfeCtion: but they will ripen -here, 
sheMine sn6gn, 
The Method is this. © Sow them upon a hor 
in Sprin the Marvel. of 
Peru: treat the Plants in the fame Manner ; 
and when thofe.are planted out, let thefe be alfo 
fet in Pots. | | 
|’ Thus far the common Praétice of our Gar- 
deners'would manage them rightly; but here muft 
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