Octob. that the upper Petal makes, in a Manner, the 
P.VITI. : All who have written of this Plant, have cele- 
_ Fig. 5. brated its Beauty; but few have known where to 
whole Flower. 
In the Centre rife ten Filaments: nine of thefe 
are united in their Bodies, and one lies: over them 
fingly. Thefe are all crown’d with Arrow-headed 
Buttons. The Style which rifes among thefe is 
fingle. 
large. | 
The Student, who has been already inform’d — 
of the Characters of the diadelpbous Clafs, the Seven- 
teenth in the Linnzan Syftem, will know this 
Plant belongs to it; all being comprehended in its 
Character, which have the F ilaments plac’d in 
two Affortments... As the Marks of the Seétions 
are, in that Clafs, taken from the Number 
of thofe Filaments, this belongs to the de- 
candrous Kind, which compofe the third Sub-_ 
divifion, : : | | 
It is a Native of the Zaft and W eft-Indies, and 
there is green throughout all the Year. With us 
its Leaves fall annually, but they are foon renew’d, _ 
and very beautiful. 
Culture of the Trirourats Ervrurina, 
The Seeds of this Species are large, and of a 
firm Subftance: fo that they may be eafily col- , 
lected, and will come in a growing Condition into 
Europe with very little Care ; and from thefe it is 
beft to raife it. 
: OF GARDENING. g 
They muft be fown in Spring int the ufual Octob. 
Manner, upon a Hot-Bed. When the Plants have 
fome Strength, they muft be tranfplanted into 
another; and thence. into Pots, in. which they 
are to be harden?d by Degrees to the Air during 
Summer; and at the Approach of cold Weather 
remov’d into the Stove. | : 
Thus they will rife, with Care and Patience, — 
into handfome Shrubs. ° 
The readier Way of propagating thetn is by 
Cuttings, from fuch as have been thus rais’d here, 
Thefe will freely root if well manag’d; and 
the beft Method of doing it is this: let them be 
taken from thriving Shrubs, planted with Care in 
Pots, and thefe fet up to the Rim in a Bark- 
Bed. Here they muft be water’d every Day, and 
fhaded ‘till they ftrike Roots. © {lee za 
The End of May is the beft Time for doing 
thi an ees ae hai 
‘Half a Dozen Cuttings may be fet.in each Pot; 
and in the Beginning of Aiguj? they will have thot 
fo good Root, that they may be remov’d’ each _ 
Into a feparate Pot. te gx 
Thefe mutt be again fet in a Tan-Bed, to help 
their Rooting. 
_ They are nowto be confidered juft as Plants raifed 
from Seed, and to be treated every Way like them. 
The Stove mutt preferve them from the Severity 
of our Winters ; and about the third Year they 
will flower: fometimes fooner. 
The Soil I have found beft to fuit with this Shrub 
is this: T'wo Parts dry Pafture Earth,” and one of 
rotten Garden-Mould: and I have found that, 
tho’ nothing is fo beneficial to it as frequent Wa- : 
tering, yet it muft be a little at a T ime, for 
otherwife it is deftruétive. 
5 CRIMSON PENTAPETES, 
1 5 
place it, or by what Name to call it. | 
Mullein. — 
 Breynius has join’d with Ray and PLUKENET | 
in calling it an Alcea: and Ruyscn and Kiece- 
LARIUS, in their Commentaries upon that Author, 
fay it is evident, Luce meridiang clarius, that it 
belongs not to the Blattaria, but Alcea F amily. 
_ Mr. Mitver has avoided Cenfure on this Head, 
by not naming the Plant, tho’ an Ornament ‘to 
the Dutch and French Gardens, and not wholly un- | 
known in our own. 
_ Allhave err’d about it till the Time of L1 NN EUS. | 
He has indeed fhewn, Luce meridiana clarius, that 
it belongs neither to the Blattaria, Alcea, or any 
other known Kind, but ftands diftin guith’d by pecu- 
liar Characters ; and he has narn’d it Pentapetes: di- 
{tinguifhing it farther by the Addition of Polis * 
‘hae se 
i 
| haftato lanceolatis ferratis : Pentapetes, with has 
ftato-lanceolated and ferrated Leayes. ee 
~~ This Compound Term is very expreflivé of the. 
peculiar Form of the Leaves, and will be better 
underftood from their Shape, ih our annexed Fi- - 
| gure, than from any Explanation in Words. _ 
_ The Plant grows with a pleafing Wildnefs, to 
the Height of two or three Feet. . 
The Root is fibrous. The Stalk is rib’d, and 
of a greyith green, frefher toward the Top, and 
at the Bottom often purplith. It is of a firm 
Subftance, and fends out numerous Branches. 
The Leaves are plac’d irregularly, and they 
are very numerous. = | : 
Their Colour is a deep but fhining green, and 
their Form very fingular and handfome. 
They are broadeft at the. Bafe, long - in 
Proportion to their Breadth, jagged. deeply and 
irregularly at the Edges, and continued to a very, 
long and flender Point. 
_ The Flowers are very confpicuous : they are 
| large, and of a mott bright and elegant red: they 
rife from the Bofoms of the Leaves on the upper 
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