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The Student obferving the Place of the Fila- 
ments in this Flower, will recolleét that it is 
the Character of a peculiar Clafs. The Gynandria 
Non. and fcatter upon the Surface the Seeds, thin and - Noy, 
{paringly : cover them a Quarter of an Inch, or —7—7 
a little more, with the fame Earth, and fet the 
pid ae, 
Fig. 6. Admiffion into our Collections ; 
(Twentieth in the Linnazan Syftem) compre- 
hends thofe in whofe Flowers: the male Parts or 
Filaments, bearing the Buttons, grow upon the 
female. This is ee the Cafe, and the Heliferes 
is therefore one of them. 
The fubordinate Diftinctions of this Clafs are 
made according to the Number of the Filaments :. 
that being only the Mark of a feparate Section 
here, which would be, if they grew otherwife, 
the Character of a Clafs. The Feliorde having: 
ten Filaments, belongs to the Decandria, which 
is the fixth Section. 
Culture of the Screw TREE. 
Nature has generally plac’d this Tree in a loofe 
light Soil; but fuch as has fome Richnefs : 
we fhould imitate; and adding to this a Degree of 
~ Warmth, fuited to that of its ae tee Climate, we 
fhall do all that can be requir’d for its Growth and 
Prefervation. Let the Soil for it be thus prepar’d : 
Mix together two Bufhels of dry Pafture Earth, 
one and a half of large Sand, one Buthel of 
Wood-Pile Earth, and one Pound of Storie-Lime. 
Lay thefe together early in Spring, and they will | 
be mellow by the Time they are wanted. ; 
‘This being prepar’d, the Seeds of the Tree are 
to be fown. They fhould be obtain’d from A- 
broad in the Fruit, which will preferve them very 
well, and they will be ft for Vegetation. They 
may be had ftom the Eaft-Indies or the Babama 
Iflands; and they are to be fown thus : 
Fill a Couple of Pots with good Garden- Mould, 
is hotteft, open the Bed a little, 
this © 
Pots in a Bark-Bed of temperate Heat ; give them 
a gentle Watering, and at Night draw a Mat over 
the Glafs of the Frame. 
In the Day remove the Mat ; and when the Sun 
by raifing the 
Glafs with a notch’d Stick. War the Earth very 
gently from Time to Time; and when the Plants 
appear, continue thefe Waterings ; only be careful. 
not to beat down their Stalks, 3 
All this while let the Earth, prepar’d for their 
Reception, be turn’d from Time to Time ; and let 
the Air be sas Ji: to the Plants in the Middle of 
» the Dag. 
_ When they have got fome Ifttle ticks let 
them be tran{planted each into a feparate Pot fill’d 
with the Compoft, and gently water’d, and then 
fet into the Bark-Bed again. 
From this Time they will only require to be 
water’d and fhaded till they are well rooted, and 
| then to be harden’d by Degrees to the Air, by 
opening the Glafs of the Bed in the Middle of 
the Day; and nourifh’d by frequent Waterings. 
When they have thus acquir’d fome Strength 
and Hardinefs, they muft be remov’d into the Saves 
for they will not at any Time be fafe in the open Air. 
‘In the Middle of our hotteft Days, the Glaffes 
of the Stove muft be open’d, to give them and 
the other Plants free Air, and they muft be water’d 
frequently. At Times they muft be, tranfplanted 
into Pots of a larger Size, fill’d with the fame Com- 
poft; and in thefe they will flower the third Year. 
5 © 6 MLCT R Bak EAD TAG z.Y. 
This Plant does not want Beauty to plead. its 
that, a great deal of Singularity. 
Moft of the late Authors have defcrib’d it 5 
but it has had almoft as many Names, as they are 
who have mention’d it. | 
ComMELIne Calls it an Elichryfum, PETIVER 
an Averatum, and Van Roven a Santolina. This 
laft Name was given it alfo by Linn aus in his 
earlier Writings; but in his later, upon more ac- 
curate Enquiry and Diftinétion, he has refer’d it 
to the Tanzy Kind. 
He calls it Tanacetum folis pinnatis, pinnis line- 
avibus, remotis, integerrimis: Pinnate-leav’d Tan- 
zy, with narrow, remote, and undivided Pinne. 
It is a tall and handfome Plant. The Root 
$s brown, thick, and hung with many white 
-Fibres. 
The Stalk is upright, firm, and branched: and 
it is round, fmooth, and of a fhining brown. 
and it has, with 
The Leaves are extremely fingular and beauti- 
ful. ‘They are of a fine green, thick in their 
Subftance, rounded in the Segments, and very 
flender; and in the whole Leaf they refemble, in 
“fome Degree, a Deer’s Horn. | 
‘The Flowers are, fingly, very fmall; but they 
are difpos’d in. vaft Clufters, in a Manner refem- 
bling thofe of the wmbelliferous Plants: their Colour 
| is avery bright and glorious yellow, and they have 
under them fome dry fhining leafy Scales, which 
add greatly to the Beauty as well as Singularity of 
their Afpect. 
The Seeds follow, and are wine’d with Down, — 
The Whole examined together, is found to be of 
the Nature of the Compofite naked Flowers. A 
Number of Flofcules are collected into a com- 
/ mon Head, furrounded by a fcealy Cup; and 
feveral of thefe Heads, amang’d together upon 
the Extremities of the Top-Branches of the Plant, 
form the general or great Tuft of Flowers, which 
{trike the Eye fo pentsely in the firft Afpec. 
Fach fmaller-Clufter or Head has its feveral © 
Flofcules contain’d in a common Cup, this is 
roundifh, and compos’d of numerous little Scales, 
ofadrySubftanceand glittering Surface, clofely plant- 
ed one by another: thefe are the fhining leafy Sub- 
{tances the Eye firft diftinguifhes under the Flowers, 
Thus much being underftood of the general 
Difpofition and Arrangement of the Heads, 
their feparate Flofcules (which tho’ diftinguith’d 
from their Minutenefs by that peculiar Name, are 
are really diftinét Flowers) are to be examined, 
This 
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