Nov. 
The Cup in which it ftands, is made of a 
fingle Piece, and divided into five ferrated Seg- 
ments. 
The Body of the Flower is form’d of a fingle 
Petal, tubular a little Way at the Bafe, and deep- 
ly divided at the Edge; and‘in its Bottom ftands 
a Neétarium, compos’d of five little pointed and © 
convergent Scales. From the Neétarium rife five 
Filaments, with long Buttons: in the Midft of 
thefe a fingle Style crown’d with a double Top. 
After the Flowers come the Seed-veflels, which 
are crown’d with the Cups. _ a 
The Clafs to which the Plant belongs, the Pen- 
tandria Monogynia, is very evidently feen: and 
were there no other Mark, the Divifion of the Stig- 
ma, or Top of the Style, would fufficiently di- 
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ftinguith it from the Campanula Kind. 
Culture of the ROELLA. 
. The beft Method of propagating this Plant is 
by Sowing; and the Sceds will never fucceed fo 
well as when brought from Africa, its natural 
Place of Growth. : | 
They muft be fown upon a Hot-Bed, early in 
_ Spring, and rais’d with the ufual Care, tranfplant- 
P. XII 
Fig. 3. 
ing them from one Bed to another, as they gather. 
Strength; and, after three Removals, into Pots. — 
DENING, 
For their Reception in thefe, a Compoft muft 
| lateft at the Time of Sowing them. It is beft 
made thus : 
Mix four Buthels of rich Earth, from a Pa. 
fture, with one Buthel of Pesd-Mud, five Pecks 
of old Dung from a Melon-Bed, and two Pecks 
of Sand: let this be well Wrought and turn’d fey 
gether; and when the Plants are of fuch a Size as 
to be remov’d from the third Hot-Bed, let them 
be planted in it in middle-fiz’d Pots, one Plant in 
each. — - oy * 
_ When they are fet, let them have a gentlé Wa- 
tering, and place the Pots in a Bark-Bed, that 
has not too much Heat, to promote their free 
Rooting : after they have been fhaded and care- 
fully water’d fome Days, in this Bed, let the Air 
be admitted by Degrees; and let them thus be 
hardned, for bearing the open Situation of the 
_ Green-houfe Plants in Summer. 
Let them be 
plac’d among thefe in the warm Months ; and, at 
the Approach of Autumn, taken into the Green- 
houfe. There let fome be plac’d for the Winter ; 
and others in the Stove. (ie. 
thofe in the Greenhoufe or Stove, will be the fineft ; 
but they will all flower in great Profufion and 
great Beauty. | 
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Many Things tend to recommend this Plant 
to all who are at the Expence of raifing Exotics: 
its Leaf, its Fruit, and the free wild Manner of its 
Growth. | 
Among the late Writers, moft have nam’d it, 
but under different Titles ; the Genera of Plants 
having been ill eftablifh’d; till Linwaus (that 
Linnavs, whom Men, incapable of reading his 
~ Works, prefume to cenfure *) eftablith’d them. 
PLUKENET has'call’d it a Solanum—Tourne- 
‘FORT, a Solanoides ; and CommELINE, an Ama- 
vanthus Baccifer. SAY th 
-Linnavus diftinguifhing it from all thefe Ge- 
‘nera, by certain Characters, which we fhal] de- 
feribe in the Account of its Flower and Fruit, — 
calls it, after Phumier, Rivina; adding, by way 
of Diftin@ion, Humilis racemofa baccis puniceis : 
om Cut gnto five. Segments, which turn backward, a 
Given as the Tranflation of Linn aus, 
Low racemous Rivina, with: fcarlet Berries. And 
to this he refers, as a Variety, the taller Kind, 
whofe Fruit is of a Violet Purple, defcrib’d under 
the fame general Name by Prumier, as a diftinct 
Species. - | pre PT eer” ae, 
The common Writers call it Phytolaca, an Er- 
ror into which Borruaaye led them; and our 
Gardeners American Nightthade. | 
The Root is fpreading; and full of Fibres. 
The Stem is flender, weale, and edg’d ; but it 
will run to a great Length if fupported, and will 
. fpread out in a pleafing Wildnefg, into a Multi- 
tude of fcattered Branches. 
The Rind is of a greyifh brown toward the 
Bottom, and paler in the younger Shoots; and 
the Branches generally fwell' out at the Joints, where 
the Leaves, and Fruit and Flower-Clufters rife. 
The Leaves are large and handfome; they are 
fupported on fhort, purplifh, hairy Foot-ftalks, 
_ They are broad at the Bafe, wav’d at the Edges, 
and fharp-pointed, Their Colour is a very bright 
green; but toward Autumn they ufually grow 
_ purplifh, and they are naturally a little downy: | 
this is fometimes more, fometimes le{s, and often 
{carce perceptible, — see : 
The Flowers are plac’d in a double Series, on 
long, flender, common Foot-ftalks. Thefe are _ 
what the Latins diftin@tly call Racemis; and thus 
the Reader will comprehend the Linnaan Term 
Racemous, mention’d in the Name of this Plant. 
Each Flower has, on this common Stalk, its 
little Pedicle ; and they are fmall and inconfidera 
ble: their Colour whitifh, | 
_ The Berries follow, and are of a fine deep red, 
and often of a Violet Purple. This Change of 
* Doétor Linnzus has made this Miftake. Muitugr’s Propofal, Col. 4. Laciniis quingue revolutis, Jumma ereéla. Linnavs. 
nd: age erect at the T op. Miuier’s Gardeners Difionary, Article ALOE, 
Colonr 
According to the Seafon and Management, . 
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be prepar’d at this Seafon of the Year; or at the ——— 
