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Fig. 2. 
_ the Shrub a Campborata. 
‘fcrib’d it under that Name, and he conform’d to 
Height into a great Number of Branches. 
firft Section ‘under that Clafs, the Monogynia: 
this is learn’d from the Style being fingle. _ 
Culture of the CE AN OTHYS, 
This Shrub ripens its Seeds with us, ‘and may 
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be rais’d from fag? They may alfo be had from 
North America, vhere“tt is very commoli; and it 
will rife freely from them. This Method affords the 
—handfomeft Plants, but peste are long in coming 
to Perfection : we therefore recommend the Me- Nov. 
thod by laying. The Branches readily take Root —-—+ 
this Way, and there requires no particular Ma- 
nagement. 
"They will be fit to take off the next Seafon ; 
and after that no more is requir’d than to: pot 
them; and, for perfect Security, ‘to take them 
into shi Green-houfe in Winter, ~The Leaves fall 
in Autumn, but they appear early in Spring. 
2 CORYMBOUS GREAT SEL AGO, 
This is one of thofe Plants which ces claim 
their Place in a judicious Collection, from their 
paeaeny and from their Beauty. 
It is another of thofe Species, whofe ill-deter- 
min’d Genus, till of late, has led Authors to call 
‘it by a Variety of Names. 
It is deferib’d in Ray and Morison under the 
inartificial Name of Millefolio affinis Maderaf- 
patana. 
_ ComMELine calls it Camphorata Africana. 
Linnaeus, Selago corymbo multiplici : Selago, 
with a manifold Clufter of Flowers. 
generical Name i it ftands alfo in Van Roven. 
Let the Botanical Student here avoid confound- 
ing Things i in his Imagination. 
Seances has unluckily call’d, by this Name_ 
Selago, a kind of Mofs. Comme ine is not 
without Excufe, tho’ without Reafon, in calling 
Herman had firft Ac. 
the Cuftom of the Botanifts of his Time. 
The Root is. divided, hard, and Bei with 
innumerable Fibres. 
The Stem is, woody, and divides at a {mall 
The 
Bark, on the larger Parts, is ails’ but on the 
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with a pact Bis: 
-» The Leaves are fmall, but their’ Number very 
well atones their feparate Bignefs ; 
plac’d with a Beauty and Regularity fearce known 
in any other Plant. 
They are fmall, oblong, 
fharp-pointed, and they ftand in. Clufters at che 
Joints, like Pencils. 
The Flowers, like the Leaves, are Fassia, 
fimall, but they ftand in furprifingly thick Clufters, 
refembling, in fome Degree, the Difpofition of Flow- 
ers in the umbelliferous Tike: They are white, and 
when view’d at a fmall Diftance, each appears to 
have four little Spots of a gold yellow. Thefe are 
indeed the Buttons terminating the Filaments ; 
but they feem, at fome Diftance, plac’d on the 
Flower. 
Thete lead the Student to the Clafs to which this 
fingular Shrub is to be referr’d; but it is fit witha] 
he pes an exact View of the Flowers. He wil] 
find each is plac’d in its little Cup, and this is form’d 
of a fingle Piece, divided into four {mall Seg- 
ments, at which the under one is largeft. 
The Body of the Flower is form’d of a fingle 
“long Segments, foméwhat unequal , 
‘Under this. 
and they are | 
Pert, ‘tubular a little a at the e Bale, and {carce 
pervious; and at the Edge divided into five ob- 
two at the 
Top being fmaller, and one at the Bottom larger 
than the two at the Sides. 
The Filaments are inferted in Ss Body of the 
Flower, and they alfo are unequal: two being 
longer than the others; this is an Inequality which 
the Sradess has been already inform’d, marks a 
LInn AN Clafs, the Didynamia, and the fucceed- 
ing Fruit, which is loofe, fhelly, and form’d of 
the Remains of the Flower, making a kind of 
-Capfule for the Seed, fhews it to be one of the 
Angiofpermia : the Seeds being cover’d marking 
. that Sub- diftinGtion. 
Culture of the ConymBous SELaco. 
This elegant Shrub is a Native of Zthiopia, 
where it naturally lives in a poor, barren, fandy 
Soul. On thefe Articles, we have inform’d the 
judicious Gardener, is always to be founded the 
Culture and Management of Plants: ; and what 
Experience has added to confirm this Practice, we a 
fhall lay down in the prefent Inftance. 
To fuit the Soil to the Nature of the Plant, 
it muft be dry; and yet to give it the full Vi- — 
gour in our Country, there muft "be fome Rich: 
nefs: this muft be given without encumbring the 
Mafs; and it may be happily effected thus : 
Thiciy in a Fleap a Barrow of Under-turf 
Earth, from a dry Common: add a Peck of 
Coal-afhes, two Pecks of Marle, and a Pound 
Weight of fine Shavings of Horn, fuch as are 
fold at the Lanthorn Cutters. 
Let this be put together at ‘the prefent Seafon, 
and lie all Winter. 
In this Compoft the Shrub tiny be rais’d from 
Seed, or otherwife. 
If from Seeds, they muft be had from the Place 
of its natural Growth, for it does not eafily ripen 
them here. This is alfo a tedious Method : for 
both which Reafons we prefer, where Slips can be 
had, the propagating it that Way. 
To this Purpofe, early in Spring, let half a 
Dozen {mall Pots be All’d with this Compoft : let 
as many Slips be carefully taken off from a thriv- 
ing Plant; and pierce them thro’ and thro’ ma ee 
two or three Places, with a fine Awl. 
Then plant one in each Pot; give ir a gentle 
Watering; and all being fo fet, place them in 
a Bark 
