Dec. The Root is weody, brown, divided, fpreading, 
——— and hung with many Fibres. | | 
The Stem is alfo woody, and is covered with a 
tough brown Bark, and with the Remains of | a : | 
many fallen Leaves, whofe Footie ee | 
durable. | 
The Branches are numeroys, and their Bark is | 
ereyifh. 
The. Leaves are fcattered over them without 
Y 
Order, and they are of a pleafing Figure; they 
_are oblong, confiderably broad, and divided on : 
both Sides almoft to the Rib, into a great Num- : 
the Teeth of a Comb, running a little obliquely. 
The. Colour of thas, is a whitith green, and : us. 
. they are hoary, a. gone Be 
The Footftalks are fometimes reddifh ; and the 
Rib in the Middle is frequently a little ting’d 
in the fame Manner. praia e 
_ The Flowers are large and yellow ;. they are 
plac’d on long, flender, whitith and hoary Foot- 
 ftalks, terminating the Tops of the Branches, 
and are not without their Beauty : they.are of the 
radiated Kind, and have the ‘Rays particularly 
the Difk in the Centre, which is fall, is..of a 
very deep Finct of the fame Kind. ae aries 
_ The Seeds are numerous,:.and wineg’d with 
The Flower is of an unpleafing Smell; but 
the Leaves when rubb’d in the Hand are not. dif. 
agreeable; and in Tafte they {trongly refemble 
@ Cattots:- =... -: Fas ES, a Dig 
_ The Cup in which the Flower ftands, is form’d 
of a fingle Piece, and is of a. plain Stru€ture, 
hollow, and at the Rim divided into eight Seg~ 
ments. 2 | bl oie seers 
| _ The-Flofcules contain’d in the» Body of the 
Flower are of two Kinds, tubular and ligulated : 
thefe Terms we have explain’d, treating of other 
of the compofite flower’d Plants. 
_ The tubular Flofcules occupy. the Centre, and 
are numerous: the ligulated Flofcules’ are few, 
and ftand at the Verge. _ . 
The tubular contain five Filaments, whofe 
Buttons are of an oblong Form, and unite in a 
4 
| fingle Style. : ee 
"7s Ina Glee ligulated, which are female Flofcules 
only, there are no Filaments; thefe contain 
the Rudiment of a Seed, from which rifes.a fingle 
‘Style, {plit at the Top. : — 
_ This Structure of the Flower thews its Clafs in 
the Linvwaan Syftem; the Coalefcence of the 
Plate 
XVII. than this; and few have more Beauty. Were there 
Fig. 4, nothing to recommend it but the high Colour, 
and the Form, the Want of Leaves and fealy Ar- 
long: thefe are of a very fine {trong yellow; and | 
it from’ Seeds. — 
Cylinder; and in the Midft of thefe is plac’d a 
The Vallifneria itfelf is fcarce.a ftranger Plant | a Singularity and extreme Prett 
Ss, at the 
: t the Polygamia 
| neceffaria, thofe in which the various Method of 
| houfe to keep it alive thro’ Winter ; and, to give it 
| the full Luftre in flowering, the Stove, 
_ ~ Let the Compoft be made thus: | sahicd- eders. T 
‘Take up a Barrow of rich black Mould from 
“under the Turf inja_ Meadow ; put, to this a, 
Bufhel of coarfe Sand, a Buthel of Pond-Mud, 
and a Peck of rotted Cow-dung: ftir all. thefe 
together,” and lay them up for Spring... 
In this the Plant: may be propagated. by Cut- 
tings, in the fame Method we -have: dire&ted for 
other African Kinds; but the belt Way is to raife 
 Thefe need not be brought from Africa ; for 
thofe which ripen here will very well do the Bu- 
| finefs. | 
They muft be fown at the End of February, 
| upon a moderate Hot-Bed, and the Plants rais’d 
in the ufual Way, till they are large enough for 
| potting; then they mutt be planted fingly in Pots 
of a moderate Size, fill’d with-the Compoft, and 
 fhaded under a Frame, and water’d till well root- 
ed: ‘after’ this they muft be brought into.a warm 
Part of the Garden, and fet in the open Air til} 
If they are thence taken into the Stove about 
the Middle of Oéeber, they will be brought to 
flower at this Seafon in greater Perfection, and 
with much more Luftre than older Plants. 
Their Leaves thus are numerous and full of Vi- 
gour: the Stem is covered with them to the Bot- 
tom, which is not the Cafe in older Plants kept 
in the common Way; and the Number of Flow- 
ers, the Contraft of their gold yellow, with the 
filvery grey of the Leaves: and the red upon the 
Stalk, gives a confummate Beauty, no Part of 
which ;is feen on the Plant when ftarv’d and ill. 
manag’d, 3 : 
\ 
p SC ADR ESET.C YNiO'M'OR1U M. 
ynefs in the faint 
Manner of its flowering. | ; 
Many of the late Botanifts have narn’d it; but, 
till MroHexr, all with great Miftakes as to itg. 
mament, it would deferve all Notice; but there is | Nature; and, till Linnveus, in its Clafs. 
Ne 17, 
Eee Its 
the Approach pf Autumn, and then remov’d into _ 
| the Greenhoufe. — | 
