gO 
A COMPLEAT) BODY 
O&teb. Part of the Plant, — they have tinactet F cot- 
ftallks. 
» Each is compos’d € five lage Petals, and in 
others, crooked, batren, and’of a peculiar Form: 
Thefe rife from the tubular Bedy,: form’d by the |-- 
proper Stamina, and ftand — betv ona threes 
Ws ei them. i : 
adiek 
: of. five. flender and rough long Leaves, woolly 
within, and ‘it is fucceeded by a hard and almoft 
woody Fruit, which holds in feveral:Cells a tien | 
ber of flat Seeds, edg’d with Membranes. 
our Student ; but we have told him: how to dif- 
pote it, ( 
He will remember, that after the Number | 
twelve, the Filaments of a Flower are not counted 
fo mark its Character: for even the Icofandria, 
twenty F ilarients, is not limited to that or any 
other peculiar Number, fo it be more than twelve : 
but as ‘the Number is of no Ufe in this Matter, 
che will remember we have acquainted him this 
growing abso: of he F dasa? into a Tube, ach, 
is the Character of a pecutie fam the Mona. ——. 
delphia, 
its Centre fifteen Filaments. Thefe in their lower | 
Part unite and form a tubular Body ; and at their - 
_ Tops are crown’d with upright pointed Anthere.  _ 
- Befide thefe, which are the proper and: perfe& | 2 
_ Stamina or Filaments of the Flower, there are five : Yo 
To this Clafs hea the. LPisiapesel “and as 
thefe Filaments are numerous, it is of the Fa 
drous Settion of that:Clafs. 
Culture of the Crimson PEnraperes. 
‘It is a Native of Ceylon, fa of forne Pie of the 
) We eft- Indies, and naturally orows in rich Soils: 
| this points out the Nature af its Culture, which 
Fhe Style i is Lingle, and, its Top or Stigma | depends on two Circumftances, a rich Earth and a 
iu 7 | | due Degree of Warmth. 
This fingular i ., hands in: a Gen, forris’ qd | 
“With regard to the Soil, “no ‘artificial Compott 
| alae be made: the beft'and richett Garden- Mould 
is fitter for the Ufe than any other. The Method 
of raifing it muft be from Seeds, ‘which may be 
| obtain’d from its natural Place of Growth, or 
The Strugture of the Flower, while it fhews 
plainly that the Plant is neither a Blattaria nor an 
Alcea, will at firft Sight perhaps fomewhat perplex 
from Plants rais’d here from gt for with due 
Care it ripens them perfectly.« 
Thefe Seeds muft be fown: eat in Spring upon 
| a moderate Hot-Bed: the Plants muft be remov’d | 
| from that to a fecond, and fromthat fecond Hot-Bed 
| int® feparate Pots; and thefe mutt be plac’d in a 
| Tan-Bed to root them. After this, they muit, by 
| Degrees, be harden’d to the Summer Air, and 
tho’ the literal ‘Tranflation of ‘the Word would fay 
early againft Winter remov’d into the Stove. 
It wal flower the firft Months of Autumn, ang 
i ripen Seeds before Winter, while. other Flowers | 
| are glittering in all their dutire in remote Parts 
of the Plant. fo See 
G2: 50 AR EET LANTANA, 
Pvyi e “Ws ‘need not recommend to the Gatteine: a 
Fig. 6. Shrub with which he is fo well acquainted, as 
this. Its Beauty is fo univerfally” acknow-€ 
ledo’d, that few Collections of Exotics are with- 
_ out it. 
- alfo fome other Kinds. 
-_ Camara. 
the Viburnums ; but by the more correct is diftin- 
guifh’d under this, Name of Lantana. 
Linnaeus calls it, Lantana foliis oppofi itis, de | and all between either of thefe Colours and white, 
inermi ramofo, foribus capitato umbellatis ; Branched. 
‘and naked -ftalk’d Lantana, with Leaves. plac’d | 
oppolite, and Flowers in umbellated Heads, | 
-° The Author ufes the Term. inermis, in this 
‘Name, by way of Diftinction, from aculeatus; an- 
other Species of the fame Genus, _ being arm’d 
| prith Thorns, _ 
Teri is a fatatoIe Shrub, of ae F ng thighs 
or more. 
whitith Bark, and hung about with F ibres. 
The main Stem has a rough ereyith brown 
Bark, and: is irregular in Shape. 
- Shoots -are “tender, downy, angulated, and often 
reddifh. : 
2 
ne) 
Its Eamon Nowe. in ape We ft pe is 5 Wild 
Sage; avery wild Term, by which. they exprefs es 
The Root is woody, covered with a : fhort, of a eonlée F orm, and ighay wees in 
| four Places, 
The young | roundith i in Shape, and contains.a fingle. Stone, in 
_ which are two Kernels lodg’d in feparate Cells, 
ithe hPoies ae the Bye'b both et thei Form 
and Difpofition. They are broad at the Bafe, fer- 
rated at the Edges, fharp-pointed, rough on the 
Surface, of: an agreeable pale green, and hairy. 
| They ftand in uw aire, and they have flender reddifh : 
Foot-ftalks, 
The Flowers terminate all the Branches in great 
| rounded Tufts, and they are naturally of a very 
In our Gardens ’ tis s known by its Indian 1 i | elegant Scarlet ; 
| we fee fome of them of this fine and elegant red, 
The generality . Writers ode rank it with | others Orange-colour’d,. and-fome of a fettiy 
| Hue, a paler yellow, or a whitith. 
but fometimes, in the fame Tuft, 
_-AHl the Changes between Séarlet and Orange, 
are common, to the F lowers inthe fame Clufter, in 
its native Soil; and it retains a. great deal of the 
fame pleafing Variety here. 
‘Each Flower, when examined - feparately, 46 
{een to be form’d of a fingle Petal: this is {mall 
| and tubular at the Bafe, and at the Rim — 
| into four broad Segments. 
The Cup, in which the Btevler ftands, is very 
The Fruit is of the asi. Kind, but digi it ig 
The Student who defires to know the Clafs to 
which 
