ain. 
~ Genus with what is call’d the greater SP pata 
properly a Leucoium. ~ 
The Flower of; ‘thigePlant is Goanpogi odi- 
ftinély, of only three “Petals : thefe are oblong, - 
~ hollow’d,  obtufe, and regular in Form and-Dif- 
pofition. The Nectarium, that ftands within, 1s 
of a tubular Form, cylindric, and compos’d of 
three Parts: thefe are half-as long as the Petals, - 
and are obtufe and nick’d at the End. . 
_. The three, Petals, compofing ope" oe i of 
the Flower, are of-a>pu £ Show 
three Parts of the Nectarium, which. are " plae’d | 
alternately with the Petals, are alfo white toward 
the Top; but they are ting’d near the Bottom | 
-awith a yellowith green, in Form of a Heart; and 
on their inner Surface run many confpicuous and © 
_. ©. elegant green Fibres. | 
‘tere ty bee Nectarium is Of 44 fitmer Subftancé than 
dis Petals. = 
/ 
To know the Clafs, let Pg Student obferve the | 
but they are fo 
| : oe ORY fhort, that their Antherse are the firft Object 
F ilaments : thefe are fix; 
_ which. ftrikes the Sight. They are oblong, con-. 
vergent, and terminated, each by a kind of Bri-~ 
-ftle. Thefe are of a fine yellow, and they add _ 
Flower. In their Centre rifes a pure white Style: 
and the. Seed-veflel which follows, is roundifh, 
‘ftanid its Strudhure, that he iiay avoid the antient | 
-——— Error of confounding it as a Species of the fame 
are needed t 
-raifes on the y ‘g 
mate; and it may be thrown up-earlier-yet y-even 
to flowerin all its Glory at this Period, by due = 
Care. 
No Lt or Stove, Baik: Bed: or Dung, 
A Plant, that Nature 
_Seafons. : 
The Roots are now fo abundant, iid are prepa- 
| gated a eafily. and readily by Off-fets, that it were 
idle to propofe any ‘other Method. The only need- 
ful Care is a proper. Mould, and Situation of the 
Border. ey 
For thofe. Riecnded to iies earliett, let a =e 
| “ieles’d Place be chofen, and let the Bed be made 
tie with this Compoft : 
A Load of Meadow-Earth, half a Load of 
Pond-Mud, and a Quarter of a Load of coarfe 
_ Sand, with . the . fame = of ratted Cow- 
“dung.” - 
Let thefe be well mix’d, and the Border be made : 
up in the Middle of Auguf. 
Toward the End of the. pone May, let 
| the Roots be taken up; and when this Border is 
well wrought, let them be planted at eight Inches 
Diftance, and bury’d two-Inches and a half with 
Mould. Let the Surface be rak’d over them; 
and thus let them, remain till the-End of Ofoder. 
not a little to the Variety. ‘and Beauty of Fe Then featter over the Bed. a little Marle and Pi- 
—_ Dung mix’d together. 
~The Rains that follow will wath this in, and it | 
~ and mark’d with three Ridges. 
fingle es fhews it to be one of the Monogynia. 
Ath invigorate the Roots juft when they are re- 
Phe fix Filaments fhew the Plant to’be one of | — to fhoot for flowering. 
the Hexandria of Linn avs, a Clafs which com- | The Produce of Off-fets will be very great 
prehends mott of the bulbous Plants; and the | from thefe, and alfo from fuch as are planted in 
the common Way in Gardens ; 
of the Flowers is agreeable to the Eye, they 
fhould not be. parted oftener than once in four 
Culture : the GaLanTHus. : 
Sj Years. 
but as a Clufter 
Plate 
XVIII. its’Time of flowering in the open Air, we advance 
Fig. 2. to one which demands the Attention of the Cu- 
- It is a Native of the Alps, and flowers there at 
eC Hie End of Fanuary, opening with the Sun-rife, 
_and clofing as he fets. 
Our common Culture 
brings ital Month - fooner: than in its Ager Cle 
BOTT , 
-) From a common little Plant moft valu’d for 
_ ious, as a fingvlar, and. egenlly beatitifel Kind ; 
few exceed it in either Refpect. 
*. ‘The. Botanical Writers in ener have nam’d 
§¢4 for its confpicliovs Elegance brought it early 
into the European agora % ; and none ‘could pafs it 
over: cunnotic’d. 
Like the reft of thé: Ini Nois Chik it has been — 
call’d by different Names; but, till the great Re- — 
former. of the Science, | {9 oftéy mention’d: here, | 
and often celebrated, it was néveb properly teferr’d — 
to its Genus. 
The earlieft among age witre Reve nam’d. it, 
call it a Narciffus ; adding Indicus, Indicus ruber, 
and Facobeus. 
3 
‘The double,'Sort requires io other Culture, 
but. fhould have the Roots ee prey rd 7 
Seafon. 
2, JACOBHAN AMARYLLIS™ 
‘Diztentus, and: moft of the: later Authors, 
eall it a Lillio narciffus. 
Old Parkinson thought, from the red Colour 
of its Flower, it ought not to be plac’d among 
the Daffodils; :tho’ in Obfervance of eftablifh’d 
Cuftom, he rang’d it as one of them ; and our Gar- 
deners are ‘not lefs remote ftom T rath than the 
moft diftant of ‘thefe, in making it a Lilly. 
With’ them its common Name is the Facobea 
Lilly, | 
Its proper Genus is the maryllis, whole 
Characters we have had more than one Occafion 
to explain before. Hither Linn aus refers it ; 
and, for Diftinétion of the Species, adds, /patha 
uniflora, corolla inequali, genitalibus dechinatzs : Sin+ 
ole irregular flower’d Amaryliis, with the Filaments 
and Style declinated. To diftinguifh 3 it by a fingle 
Wor od. 
