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me Within this rifes the proper-Cup of the Flower, .| -- 
and this is plac’d on the Rudiment of the Fruit, + 
A COMPLEAT BODY 
Thefe do not turn back as in he Male S Scabbard. 
and at the Top is divided into three oval Seg- 
ments. 
Cup is green, and the Flower of a faint Crimfon. 
Within the Flower are three Points, one plac’ d 
Their 
on each Petal, and thefe are the Neétaria. 
Colour is a fainter red. 
The Male Flowers having all > to fe Sur- | 
but, after 
face, the Ear they. cover’d. withers ; 
each Female Flower, comes a_ Seed-vefiel ; 
oval Seeds. 
Thus the more Curious. oo deGaing its | | 7 7 
| have never flower’d, for the Principle of Vegeta- 
Ft lowers, and. general Manner of Fruttification ; 
and thus Linn £us, 
the Account. It is confirm’d to me, with the 
a Addition of the Particulars here nam’d, by 
| late Letters of Signor Bruni, fo that I can in 
= cular Flowers §. | 
The Place this Plant claims i in the Linn@an ) 
, Syftem, is declar’d already in its peculiar Charac- | 
the Dioecia: 
Plate 
XVII. 
“Fig. 3. which are numerous, do not want their Beauty ;_ 
but, there is alfo a preat deal in the Growth and psa Abjinthites — and ComMeELtne retainin 
_ the fame Generical Term Facohbea, adds, Africana 
frutefcens foliis abjinthit umbelliferi incanis. 
no Refpeét doubt the full and exact Circum- ) 
{tances, tho’ no more than the Author juft nam/’d 
I have been able to obtain a Sight of its moft fin- 
ter, of having Male and Female Flowers on fe- 
: parate Plants; all which are of that Kind, being 
rang’d by that Author in his Twenty- fecond Clafs, 
but to find under what Seétion in 
that Clafs it is to be plac’d, the Male Flower 
muft be examined for the Parts of Impregnation, 
- In this there ftand two upright Filaments, of |. 
the Length of the Flower, crown’d with ob- 
long Maca This Number of F ilaments, which 
is in the other Claflés a primary and conftitutional 
Charaéter, in this becomes only the Mark of a | 
fubordinate Arrangement. | 
There is no Plant of the Divecious Tribe, a EG 
Male Flower has a fingle Stamen: this Number. 
is the fmalleft_ known; and the Plant therefore 
belongs to the firft Section, 
The Flower itfelf is form’d of one Petal, di-— 
vided into. three Parts, which are of an oval 
except the female Flowers, 
Form, convex, and plac’d upon the Cup. The *P 
with the reft, have taken 
a 
more. 
pi beg ie Pe Stearn hiner naibginammce Bat” 
- Caliure of the VaLLISNERIA. 
The Plant : is a Native of Florence, and fome - 
other of the warm Parts. of Europe, where it 
flowers annually in their Ditches; the Whole, 
remaining under 
Water. 
Linna@vus thinks he has feen it in colder 
Climates, but without its Flowers. 
It is evident from this by what Means it mult 
be rais’d here. 
_ The Roots of Water-Plants are. very full of 
Life; and thefe taken up with a good Lump of the 
et ‘ slater iis ae ad contains. i6 merous | Soil ‘from: the Bottom, may be very well brought 
‘to England : in a Condition of Vegetation. 
They fhould be Roots of young Plants which 
tion is in thefe much ftronger than in fuch as 
have anfwer’d the core of Nature by ripening 
their Seeds. 
For the Reception of thefe there fhould Be fe- 
leéted fome warm Corner of a Canal or Pond, 
where the Depth is not too great, , and the Bottom 
a rich Mud. 
In this the Roots fhould be planted with Care, 
clofing the Soil about them, and Art can do no 
They will live in lefs favourable Situa- 
tions; but where they ftand fhelter’d from cold 
Winds, open to the South Sun,.and at a Depth 
where its Rays may reach the Bottom, — will 
have a fair Chance to flower. 
After they have fhot, it will be proper to kes 
them entirely clear from Weeds; and ge no 
farther Care they will naturally fucceed. 
_ The Shallownefs of the Water will be ‘a very 
eecal Article in'their Favour; for as the Differ- 
ence between us and Italy, to a Plant which 
grows naturally under Water, is principally i in the 
Heat that Water has during the Summer Months, 
this may be affifted by the ‘ ‘Shallownefs ; the Wa- 
ter of little Depth being always in the fame Pond 
: confiderable warmer than what has more. 
ae PECTINATE- LEAV’D OTHONNA. 
rhe is a Plant whofe whole Afpegt will afitt in 
recommending it to the Curious. The Flowers, 
Figure of the Plant, when properly manag’d, 
and not a little in the Leaves. - 
_ Many of the later Writers have defcrib’d. it ; 
but, till the Time .of Linnavs, its proper 
Genus has not been well eftablith’d. To this it 
is Owing that we read of it under various Names. 
The | ae Plants, like the bulbous, had 
been very ill diftinguifh’d, in Refpe& of their 
Goicies coiaeen till this Author took them 
under a more ftri@ Confideration. 
 Pruxenet has figur’d ir under the Name of 
ng 
Linnvs diftinguifhing many of thefe Plants 
under the Name of Oshonna, adds, as the {pecific — 
Character of this, foliis pinnatifidis, laciniis linea2 
_vibus parallels: Othonna with pinnatifid Leaves, 
and narrow parallel Segments. 
§ Nunquam nobis licuit defideratiffimos intueri flores. 
Linnazvs, Sp. Pl. 
