ec. 
em “Palate. 
P.xY. 
Fig. 2. 
- confufed, and when it begins to fade, they in 
Stamina or Filaments, and a fingle Style. 
- giofpermia. 
~ rent Culture. 
Bafe of this Lip there appears a {welling 
When the Flower firft opens, thefe Parts are 
fome meafure lofe their Form: ’tis when it is 
juft in Perfection, theyare to be feen regularly ; 
and the Flower is then very erie weer as well as 
peculiar in its Form. 
The peculiar Stru€ture of the Blower bee 
thus underftood, let it be torn open with Care, | 
to fee the Parts of Fruatification; thefe are four 
Let not our young Botanift be hafty thence to 
refer it to the Tetrandria Monogynia. This would 
be its Clafs and Section, if the Filaments were 
equal in Length; but he will fee two of them.are | 
larger than the others: This throws it into the 
Didynamous Clafs, and there the Style doés not 
mark the Sub-diftinction. 
Two Seétions receive thefe Didynamous Plants, 
the one containing thofe whofe Seeds remain na- 
ked in the Cup; the others thofe which have 
them in a Capfule: the Term for this is, 4- 
*T was therefore we remarked the- 
Capfule, as a Part of the. Plant’s effential 
Character 5 and thus we find its Place to be 
among the Didynamia Angiofpermia. 
Culture of the Mimuuus. 
It is a Native of North America, a Climate 
as fevere as ours; and may therefore be raifed 
with usin openGround: but we prefer a diffe- 
| The Borders of a Garden are 
over enriched for it, and where its Roots have 
too much Room, the Plant fpreads into many 
Branches. 
Its Beauty depends upon the nurfing it up in a a 
fingle erect Stem, and covering the Top of 
that with Flowers.. 
To this Purpofe, let the following Method of 
| Culture be obferved, according to which it will — 
Earth, 
rife as inthe natural Way: let it alfo have that 
Kind of Soil in which it thrives beft in America ; 3 
and it will flower in all its Glory, becaufe refcued 
from the Checks and Shocks it recéives, in the 
Gardener’s Practice of Removal. _ 
Let Seeds be procured if that can be done, 
from America’, if not let them be carefully taken 
from Plants growing here. 
from Flowers that opened in the beginning of 
OGober, and carefully hardened on a Shelf in an 
‘airy Room. 
~ Let four Pots of a middling Size be filled with 
taken from under the “Parf in an upland 
Pafture, without any Addition. Set thefe in 
-fome Part of the Garden, open to the Morning 
Sun, and defended from cold Winds; and in 
the beginning of December, {catter upon the 
Surface a few of the Seeds. Sprinkle over them 
a very light covering of Earth from under a 
- Wood-pile, and thus leave them to Nature. 
In Spring there will be feen feveral young 
Plants in each Pot: having been born as it were 
in the Severity of Winter, they will defy the 
Cold of Spring, and when the Air begins to be 
warmer, they will fhoot up apace. 
‘When thefe have fome little Height, let the 
ftrongeft Plant that ftands near the middle of 
each Pot be marked, and carefully draw up 
| all the others; thefe may be planted in common 
Ground to take their Chance ; and the reft muft 
_ be left one in each Pot to rife gradually. 
In Summer let them be fet out among the 
Green-houfe Plants, and letthem have but little 
Water; this will keep them from growing too 
large; and will keep back their houcne for 
‘that late Seafon, when they will be moft valued. 
At the Approach of Winter let them be taken 
into the Green-houfe, and when the Top Flowers 
are paft, let thofe be taken off and not left for 
Seed; and thus it will continue a long Time i in 
renewed Beauty. 
2 BROAD-LEAVED PANCRATIU™M. 
, This is a Plant of very great Elegance, and 
‘s an Ornament of the firft Kind to-the Stove, at 
this Seafon. . 
Thofe whohave had iiedannieinins tofee the Am 
boynaPlants, defcribe it, but under various’ Names. 
Rumeutus, calls it Allium Amboinenfe, or Cepa 
Amboinenfis; and Commetine, Narciffus Amboi- 
uenfis. ‘The firft Glance fhews how improper 
both thefe Names were; but till Linn avs, 
none told us what to call it in more-correct Expref- 
fion. That Author has diftinguifhed the bulbous 
Genera by certain and invariable Characters, and 
he refers this Plant to the Pancratiums ; adding 
as its Diftinétion from the others, Spatha mul- | 
tiflora foliis ovatis nervofis, many flowered Pan- 
cratium, with oval, high-ribbed Leaves. 
The Root is bulbous and of an oval Form, 
a 
| Purple 
round, firm, and two Feet high. From its Top 
white, infipid, fcentlefs; and fends from its 
Bafe a few thick Fibres. 
‘The Leaves are very beautiful, three or four, 
rarely more, rife from each Root, and they 
have long Foot-ftalks,; which when the Plant is 
healthy are of a fine Purple. 
The Leaves themfelves are of a pale, but 
eleeant Green; their Form is-oval, and they ter- 
minate in a Point. Their Ribs are high, confpi- 
cuous, and in the full Vigour of the Plant, are 
tinged with a faint Purple, they follow the Form 
of the Leaf, and at the Extremity unite in one 
common Point. They are juicy, and to the 
Tafte infipid. 
Among thefe Leaves rsifes the naked Stalk, 
at the Bafe, Green upwards, ftrait, 
burft 
Let them be faved 
Dec. 
