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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfection. 
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oA. PROLIFEROUS MOUNTAIN cCROWPOOT, 
2 Sac. HE extreme Snaletes Pe this ‘Plant the anter Side, and the Leaves often” rife libs a an 
a . muft recommend it to the Curious and Kind of, foft Lumps. or Tubetite ‘between | 
Plate it has Prettinefs enough t to, BU ecu seneg them. 
XVII. the little Care i it demands. _. | Phe Shape ‘of the Leaf is ded: ‘itis a A Tittle : 
Fig. I. If it wants the full Splendor of the’ Stove hollowed in the broad Part for the Stalk,’ and » 
Plants, neither does ‘it require their expenfive | grows narrower to a ‘Point : the Edges ; are beau 
Culture. : : | tifully ferrated. 7 
- Moft of the Writérs 3 in Botany rs Banned it, Among thefe rife the Stalks. They" are nume- 
and all under its proper Title Ranunculus, tho’ | rous, flender, of a whitith Green, but tinged 
with various Additions. BavHINnE calls it Ra- a little with Red toward the Bate, and about 
nunculus latifolius bullatus afphodeli radice. W1n- | four Inches high. . : | 
neus gives in a fhort Name, an abfolute De- No Leaves grow on. ‘thefe : ‘each’ ig” ‘deftined 
nas Foliis ovatis ferratis [capo nudo unifloro, | for ‘the Support of one “Flower, ‘and “this 
Crowfoot with oval ferrated Leaves, and fingle is in the State of Nature, ‘large Yellow, — 
Flowers on naked Stalks. | . | formed of five Petals, with 4 great Clufter ‘of 
Such is exaétly the Condition of the Plantina | Filaments in the Centre, and of’ a light Fra- 
\ State ef Nature, for it is the Gardener’s. Art grance, , i ai 
that fills the Body of the Flower with cluftered In this State fome have looked upon the Plane, 
Petals, and raifes the young Off-{pring from its | as a diftinét Species, and entitled it by another 
Polaris. su | | Name: Dopon aus, | has” called. it Ranunculis 
The Root is formed of “feveral oblong tube- Lufitanicus, and our "People thence the hie i 
rous Pieces. | | Crowfoot. : ee 1 gle 
The Leaves are not without their | ‘Beauty, To this State of ik Plant, we hall again re- 
they fpread i in a pretty Clutter. on the. Ground, fer the Student, when’ the Clats: is to be deter- o 
-' and have fhort Foot-ftalks.... mined; but we are now to explain the Diffe- 
Thefe are White with a light rings of Green : rences made in the oh ba ss ii Flower by 
the Leaves themfelves are fc a pale, but very Culture. 
acreeable Green; and they have a few ftraggling | In Nature the Petals, whet the Root is jell 
whitifh Veins. Thefe are very confpicuous on | nourifhed, will exceed the bo Se Number, as in 
Numb. XVI. pits: 5 os, lls ie. 
