7 Nov. 
Pt SI 
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FLORA, 
or 
thee PurrasurRE-GARDEN, 
La ea PSE: 
_ Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfection, 
i THREE-RLBBD “CE AN OT HU Ss 
| HE Gardener aren that, befide thofe 
' Shrubs and Plants diftinguifh’d by their 
Beauty, we recommend “fome for their 
Singularity. This is one of them: tho’ were it 
wholly without the other Recommendation, it 
would not have been felected for this Purpofe. 
Authors have call’d it by various Names; and 
*tis but of very late Time its true Place, in a re- 
cular Arrangement of Plants, was known : 
owe this to Linnzzus; but he has in his former 
Works, mifplac’d it: that Author, in the Cifort 
Garden, calls it a Celaffrus; and he is follow’d in 
that Name by Gronovius and Van Royen. 
CoMMELINE names it an Evonymus; but in the 
Species Plantarum, Linn us departing from his 
former Opinion, calls it a Ceanothus : ; adding, as 
a Diftinétion of the Species, foliis strinerviis: 
Ceanothus, with three-rib’d Leaves. 
_ The Root is woody and fpreading. 
‘The Shrub rifes to fix or eight Foot high, and 
the Stem is tolerably ftrong. 
The Bark on this is of a greyith brown, but on 
the young Shoots it is purplith. 
The Branches fpread varioufly and irregularly, 
and are full of very handfome Leaves. 
_ Thefe are oblong, large, and of a fine fhining 
green. 
They have fhort reddifh Foot-ftalks, 
and they are ferrated at the Edges, fharp-pointed, 
Numb. XII, 
« 
we.” 
daa ftronely mark’d with three bate Ribs, 
The Flowers are in nothing confiderable but Nov. 
for they have neither Bignefs, “> 
Scent, nor Colour. 
their Number ; 
They ftand in Clufters, and 
are white. : 
After thefe come {mall and os three-corner’ d 
Fruit, of a brown Colour. 
- The Student, to know the Place of the Shrub in 
the Linn an Syftem, muft examine this little 
Flower: and he will, in that clofer Obfervation, 
find enough of Singularity. 
The Cup, embracing the Bafe of the F lower, 
is fmall, and green at the Bottom; but at the 
Top it fpreads out into fome Breadth, and is di- 
vided into five Segments, ting’d with a whitifh 
or a reddifh Colour. 
_ The Body of the Flower is form’d of five Pe- 
tals. Thefe are very fmall, extremely obtufe at 
the End, comprefs’d, arch’d, and fwell’d, and 
they have long Bafes, which adhere to the ‘Seg: 
ments of the Cup. By 
In the Centre ftand five Filaments, crown’d 
with roundifh Buttons; and in the Midf of thefe. 
rifes a fingle Style. This fhews the Place in the 
Linn san Syftem, 
The Pentandria, the Fifth of that Author’s 
Clafies, receives thofe Genera which have five regu- 
lar Threads in the Flower, and this is one of the 
Mm firtt 
