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A COMPLEAT BODY 
Nov. 
_ * Hort, 
Af v aa Myrti * 
Comme ine, juft nam’d, 
p-157- his Judginent; fuppofing it a Species of Rhus, or 
: ‘Sumach, but in Complaifance to the Donor; Botani- 
tet as he calls him Dux & Princeps. | 
PiuxeneT had given it its right Name, Euo- | 
* Pluk. nymus?, 2 . - | 
bet hi 4 Wii tin 5 call’d it a 
t11g.f.5. Linn aus, in his earlier Writings, « 
3 Celafirus Celaftrus 3 : 3: ‘but, in his later +, he has refer’d it to 
apa the true Clafs; ; and in this Ghdnevins follows | 
fitis ova- 
him 5. This Géenerical Name admitted ‘an aly. 
tis inte- 
Diftinction for a fpecific one: he adds to this Pur- 
Ps ér ri M11. s 
oribus 
ve Euonymus, with | 
fubfolita- pole, floribus omnibus quinquefiais : 
riis. Hort. “347 the Flowers divided into five Parts: 
alone retains the | fhort Pedicles, rifing from the Bofoms of the 
‘Name of Rhus to it, adding Virginianum foliis | 
; but this he did not from an Error in | 
‘this | 
Noy. 
Leaves. They are “febiall and of a yellowifh —-~— 
green Colour, ting’d with a faint Purple in fome 
Places on the upper Side, and more on the lower ; 
and after thefe comes a fmall {quare rough Fruit. 
“The Flower, examined by the Eye éf Science, 
is feen plac’d in a fmall Cup, cut into five finall 
hollow Ségments ; and its Body is form’d of five 
{mall oval “Petals, In the Centre are plac’d five 
fmall Filaments ; and in the Midft of them a fingle 
Style.” ) - 
The Clats- to which the Plant belongs, is eafily 
known from this : it is the Pentandria, the Fifth 
in the Linnaan Syftem; and the finele Style 
fhews it to be one of the Saag aps aap of the : 
: ote evidently diftinguifhing it from the European frit esr. 
ee Pg Kind; the Dyreons of whofe Flowers are for | 
gin. mete the moft Part four. = . j “Culture of the AMERICAN Evonymus. 
© Rhus _ There is alfo this farther Reafon againft continu-— i ie “ : i. é me 
Age ing to it the Name Rhus Myrtifolia, that it is given | The beft Way of raifing this: Shrub is from | 
C.Bau- to two other Plants; the one a Myrica ®, and the Seed; but that fhould be had from its native 
i ae other a Coriaria 7. We have annexed the Refe- | Country, Virginia. When this cannot be ob- 
7 Rhus rences in the Margin, to clear this intricate Point | tain’d, ’tis better to lay fome Branches, than 
le ae * ofccmufien. | +. | to truft to Seeds ripen’d here, ee that’i is often 
sig : It is not one of the moft Sots Shrubs ‘we done imperfeCtly. es 
Bauhine, take into ourGardens; but they mutt have cold Ima- ‘To this Purpofe, let: the Earth be sss round 
an -ginations who talk of it as wholly wanting Beauty. about a Shrub of this Kind, and feveral ees | 
biel The Flowers have no Claim to Attention; but be brought down to it by bending. — 
sat the Leaves are very pretty both in Form and | Let the Place be mark’d where they touch the 
Arrangement. They never fail to attract the Eve 3) ucts, and feveral Slits be made quite thro’ therm 
among even the fineft Kinds; and ’tis the more with a fharp Penknife: juft above the Place 
valuable, as that it lives thro* our Winters. twift a Wire moderately tight ; and then cut off the 
The Root is fibrous. | | Branch ten Inches above the Place where it is flit. 
The Stem is woody, but not ftrong, and is co- | | This done, prepare fome Pegs, and lay the 
vered with an Olive-colour’d Bark, when the Plant | Branches, one by one, in the Ground, three Inches 
has full Health. From this fpread Branches wildly | deep. Peg them down: water them at Times, 
_ and irregularly, whofe young Twigs are-greener. | and they will fucceed very happily. 
_ The Leaves refemble thofe of the Jtalian Myr- In one Seafon they will have fhot good Rootsg, 
tle, and they are difpos’d with a beautiful a } and they may then be cut from the Mother Plant 
‘larity. and fet as new Shrubs. © =e 
Their Colour alfo isa Reshinagyntacioiil for it There are fome who pot this Shrub, and beftow 
as a very-bright and lively green. ‘more Care upon it: but it fucceeds thus very 
. The Flowers are pelea fingly, or in. Pairs, on .| well, 
& S TRAPEZE AMARYLLIS. 
Pl. XI. We have laid before the Reader already one | flora corollis campanulatis equalibus, Jcapo tereti an- 
Fig. 5. elegant Species of Amaryilis; this deferves very | cipite: Amaryllis, with a roundifh two-ede’d Stalk, 
well a Place with it; and tho’ lefs glorious in 
the Colour, makes amends by a moft pleafing and 
_ regular Variegation. It is alfo, in its Kind, an 
extremely ftately Plant. 
 *Tis but of late we are acquainted with a proper 
Affortment and Diftribution of the Bulbous Flow- 
ers; and, 
‘diftinétive Names could not be affign’d to them. 
This was call’d a'Lillio-narciffus. SoCOMMELINE 
and others entitled it, in common with more Plants 
of different Kinds, from a fuppos’d Refemblance 
“in Part with the Daffodil, and partly with the Lilly. 
Linnus eftablifh’d the Diftinctions of ‘the 
-Genera, and call’d this Amaryllis,; adding, as its 
Diftinétion from the other Species, /patha multi-. 
a» 
till this was done, the proper and 
of Leaves, but at their Side; 
and with numerous equal campanulated Flowers 
from the fame Scabbard. | | 
Van Roven calls it by the fame Name, and it 
would not be eafy to frame another equally ex- 
- prefiive. 
The Root is an oblong Bulb, ‘of a white Co- 
lour; and from its Bottom fends out a Multitude 
of white and downy Fibres. 
The Leaves are large, and of a fine green; 
they are very long, moderately broad, and hol- 
low’d from the Centre. 
The Stalk rifes not in the Midft of this Tuft 
and it is roundifh, 
but double-edg’d, firm, upright, juicy ; and in 
Colour purplith. 
Its 
