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in their Centte, from a roundifh Rudiment of a. Dec. 
DF ruit, rifes a fingle Style; crown’d witha broad ———- 
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before the Flowers were feen in Europe, were fent | 
over from America as Curiofities: with thefe the - 4 Stigma’ or ‘Top: + this’ ‘remains upon the Seed-vefiel 
‘old Englifh Botanifts became acquainted, and | when ripen’d, forming a very fingular Covering 
portunities of feeing the Plant. 
and that is divided into five Cells within. 
This Examination ceannot fail to” acquaint the 
~ Student to which Clas this Plant meee in the 
| Linn £an Syftem. ea Ss ea 
It is one of the Polyandria, the Thirteenth in 
that Author’s 8 Syftem; which we have explain’d at 
figur’d them, tho ‘without any Account of the } to it; 
F Neier! They call it, in- their own Language, is 
the ftrange hollow-leav’d Plant; and after Crv- | 
_-SIus, who, from the imperfect Account he’ ‘had | 
been able’ to obtain ‘of the Herb, “fuppos’d it 1 re- 
tated to the Sea-Lavender, Limonio congener. pie 
We owe Credit to their Veracity, who, ‘unlike | | 
hie of later Name, thought it no ‘Imputation » ‘| 
to-be ignorant of what they had not Opportunities | 
to deat and inftead of | inventing, Figures. of | 
Flowers, left the Place vacant. 
-Bavnine, fuppofing i it of the Limonium Kind, 
call’d it Limonium beregrinum Soltis forma ‘forts: 
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bung with numerous F ‘ibres. - | 
The Leaves that rife from his are very ineatlen 3 
needful to raife it; 
~ Pruxenet, better acquainted with its Nature, 
nam’d it Bucanephyllum — and Morison, Coilo- 
phyllum, 
Of later Time it has been call’d Sevaccha, | 
after the Name of Sarazin, a Botanift of France. 
And Linn vs, to diftinguifh this from another 
Species, which has larger ahd more flender Leaves, | 
adds foliis gibbis San oegiay: wb, magreh {woln 
Leaves. 
‘The Root is iil: into many Spreading pig 
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ful in Form: they are large, hollow like Pitchers, 
and fwell’d out into a kind of. irregular Bunch 
behind; ofa firm Subftance, fupported by ftrong | 
Ribs, ris capable of holding a vaft deal of Water. 
They begin from a frill Bafe, which is wfually | 
_ purplith; and thence enlarge by Degrees to the 
Place of this irregular Swelling : thence they are 
again contracted upwards, into akind of Neck; and 
from that Part they again fwell out into a broad 
Opening or Mouth, whofe Edges ftand daa 
and are wav’d fo that they refemble Ears. 
ff the Plant produc’d nothing more, thefe were 
enough to recommend it to every one curious in 
Exotics; and fully to compenfate the Trouble 
but it bears a Flower as. 
fingular as the Leaves, and extremely beau- 
_ tiful. 
The Stalk which fupports it, Tifes fillet in the 
Centre of the Tuft of Leaves, and is round, up-_ 
fight, and two Foot high. On its Top ftands 
2 “fingle Flower, large, open, and of a glowing 
. Purple. 
“This has a double Cup ; the die one is form’d 
of three little oval Leaves, and falls with the 
Flower: the upper one is compos’d of five very 
large Leaves, ting’d with the Colour of the 
Flower, and adding greatly to its Beauty: thefe . 
fall alfo with the aca. 
The proper and diftinét Flower of sil Plant 
ftands in the Centre of thefe colour’d Leaves, de- 
fended by them, and defending the Parts of Im- 
pregnation. It is compos’d of five Petals, which 
are broad, obtufe, and clofe inward toward one™ 
another. 2 | 
Thefe being feparated, there appear the Fila- 
ments, which are very numerous and fmall; and 
rooting Herbs. 
large on a preceding Occafion: and it is‘of the - 
fk, Subdivifion of that Clafs the . Monogynia. 
That’ there v were two Species of the Plant, was 
“not underftood at firft; and thence Ciusrus, ‘by 
| whofe Means we became acquainted with. the 
Plant, fufter’d fome Cenfure : he had receiy’d a 
Leaf, and a Figure of more Leaves, from an 
Apothecary of another Nation, Conizr, to whom, 
it had come thro’ feveral Hands from America, 
Our famous TRaDESCANT brought over the 
other Species from America, foon see and the 
Leaves being much longer and narrower than in 
| Cxrusrus’s Figure, he was fuppos’d to have given 
— them imperfectly. : | | 
- Since his Time we find Crusius ‘ was right 5 
and TRADESCANT s the other Species. 
Strange as the Plant appears: in Furope, it ig 
frequent i in North America, even in our own Part 
of it; and has, among the common People, the 
Name of Side-Saddle Flower. The Flower of the 
other is yellow. 
Culture of the PurPLE SARACENA., 
‘The Plant is.a Native of North America: fo 
there i is. nothing in our Climate againft the raifing 
it in the open Ground; but its natural Soil and 
the Condition of the Earth there, render it difficult 
| to bring it here in Gardens to Perfection, 
It grows in Bogs of a light rotten Earth, full 
of Wet and overgrown with Mofs, and other light 
Thefe are Places where it flou- 
rifhes; and thefe are but ill imitated in Gardens. 
Some may have Orpertapitls of trying it. by 
the Sides of Canals,’ where the Earth. is always 
wet; and if they will throw in fome proper Bog- 
Earth into the Spot where it is planted, the Roots 
will fucceed the better. 3 
In thefe Places it will never fail to produce 
Leaves, which are enough to recommend it; 
I have not feen it flower in any fuch Spot. 
In the Stove I have brought it to that Perfec. 
but 
| tion ; and I thall give the beardenes here the Me- 
thad. =: 
Let a‘ Parcel of young Plants be taken-up in 
their natural Place of Growth, with a good Ball of 
Earth to each, and fet in a’Fub or Box of Mould. 
they muft be water’d at Times, and they will thus 
very well keep alive during the Paflage. 
On their being receiv’d in England, ‘let as many 
large Pots be prepar’d, and all thefe half way up 
with the Earth taken from a Bog (mine was from 
the little Bog on Hampflead Heth, and anfwer’d 
perfectly well) let each Plant be fet upright, with 
its Ball of Earth in the Pot, and fill round care- 
fully with more of the Bog-Farth, till the Pot is 
full 
