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NUMBER XVII: 
For the firt Week in JANUARY. 
CULGRGARGHHAa ea SAA SAAS oe Rooke ee howeverawaeebeanranwargyries 
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FLORA, 
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t, The § 
arly and vulgarly known Flowers. of 
the Garden: but as it is familiar ’tis 
- alfo univerfal ; and we propofe to leave no Article 
’ untouch’d, that can be ufeful to any concern’d 
with our Subject. 
The Hardinefs with which this Flower rears its 
Head among the Snow at the dead Time of Winter, 
if planted properly, and long before the earlieft 
of Spring, however manag’d, give it a Claim to 
Attention; nor does it want Elegance to recom- 
mend it in the fingle State, much lefs in the 
double. | 
_ The Writers on Botany have all mention’d it, 
but under various Names; the proper Generical 
Diftinctions in the bulbous Plants, having never 
been eftablifh’d till Linn aus. 
_ The older Writers call it Leucoium bulbofum ; 
_ the later, Narciffo- Leucoium ; 3 and both join it with 
a very different Set of Plants, the proper Leucoia, 
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which have a Flower of fix Petals without | 
a Nectarium ; this having only three,. with a con- 
ipicuous and elegant one. | 
On this. Diftin@ion in Nature Linnzvus has — 
- feparating it. from. the © 
proper Leucoium, ae the Title of Garan-— 
To this he adds. no diftinétive Charaéter id 
founded a new. Genus }: 
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- Flowers wd Curious Plants now in a their Perfeition 
NOW. DROP, 
E treat here of one of the moft famili- | 
for of the Plant thus rightly underftood, there is 
foinetimes fhews being only the Luxuriance of 
Nature from good Culture, as we have fhewn oni 
other Occafions. is 
The Root is a finall Bulb, cotiipos’d of” many 
Coats or Skins, of which the outer one is blackifh; 
the others white; and the Whole is full of a 
tough Juice. From the Bafe run age long white 
Fibres; 
The Leaves and Stalks rife sos: furrounded 
half their Length by a white filmy Scabbatd: 
this is their Defence from Nature againft the exs 
treme Rigour of the Seafon wherein they appear. 
The Leaves are long, narrow, and thick; and 
their Colour is a deep green, with a blueith Tinge: . 
Two of thefe naturally rife- more, upright than the 
' reft, to.defend and fhield the lower Patt of the 
Stalk : the others {pread farther and droop. 
The Stalk is angulated, of a paler green, 
naked, and four or five Inches in Height. Its Top 
droops with the Weight of a fingle Flower, which 
burfts froin. an oblong flatted Scabbard,: and ap 
pears too large for its tender Support. 
This is compos’d of three Petals, and a Nees. 
rium, confifting of thrée Parts, - refembling fo 
many more. 
‘Let the Student perfeGtly under- 
Geg ftand 
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but éne known Species; the double: FIOWwer tt Sree 
