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2. PURPLE .ST A RREYO S PN RCLO,. 
This elegant Plant deferves its Place wherever | 
XIX. Exotics are preferv’d. The fingular Raggednefs of 
Pig. 2. 
its Leaf, and the Number and Beauty of the 
Flowers, demand Attention: and it has the Ex- 
cellence of long Continuance in Luftre; for, 
with good Management, it will be covered with 
full-blown iS ae all Winter. — | 
It was not known to the earlier Botanifts but 
of the later moft have deferib’d it, tho’ under va- 
rious Names. 
amplo.— CoMMELINE, Affer foliis Senecionis. — 
Linnzvus, who has very happily divided and ar- 
ranged the compofite flower’d Kinds, includes 
this under his Genus of Senecio. _ He adds, as the 
Diftinction of the Species, corollis radiantibus fo- 
lits pinnatifidis equalibus patentifimis rachi inferne 
anguftata: Radiate-flower’d Senecio, with equal, 
expanded, and pinnatifid Leaves, the Rib nar- 
rower below. 
The Plant is Pitebby; tho’ its upper Branches 
are tenders and rifes with a wild Irregularity to a 
Yard in Height. 
The Root is woody, fpreading; brown, and 
hung with many Fibres. 
. The main Stem is of a pale brown, and the 
young Branches are green, and ride’d. 
The Leaves grow, without Footftalks, over 
the whole Plant, and they are of a fingular Form; 
long,. broad, and divided down to the Rib, or 
nearly fo into many long and finuated SSeaents. 
Thofe on the lower Part are more deeply cut than | | 
_ fuch as grow toward the Tops of the Stalks , | 
the Colour of them all is a frefh and pleating 
and 
green. 
The Flowers cover the whole Plant when it is 
kept in Vigour, rifing in Numbers from the Tops 
of the Branches. They are very large, of a 
beautiful Colour, between Crimfon and Purple, 
and have a yellow Difk in the Centre. The Seeds 
which follow are wing’d with Down. — : 
We have inftructed our young Botanift in what 
Manner to examine the Compofite Flowers, and 
he will therefore enter eafily into the Conftruction 
of this; and as familiarly, by that pepe Enquiry, 
find the Plant’s Clafs. 
~The Cup he will perceive to be compos’d of 
numerous Scales, in feveral Series: this diftin- 
guifhes it from the Oshonna, whofe Cup is 
of one Piece, only divided at the Edge. With- 
in this he will find a radiated ‘difcoide Flower ; 
that is, a central Difk of colleéted Flofcules, fur- 
rounded by. numerous fplendid Rays. 
We have inform’d him, that in thefe Flowers 
Votkamer calls it Facobea flore | 
fect ones at the Verge, are oblong, 
there are two Kinds of Flofcules, the ore contain- 
ing the Male and Female Organs: of Impregnation, 
the others only the Female. - Thofe of the firtt 
Kind are perfect; for in the Vegetable Kinds the 
Hermaphrodite is the perfect Produétion. 
Let him take from the Centre of the Difk one 
of thefe, and he will find it tubular, wide at the 
Mouth, and there divided into five Segments, 
which turn backwards. Within this he will 
fee five very {mall Filaments, -whofe Buttons 
form a Cylinder. 
This is the Character of the fyngenefious Tribe; 
it therefore fhews the Plant is to be referr’d 
thither: but there requires yet a farther Attention 
| to the Parts, to know under which of the feveral 
Sub-divifions of that Clafs it is to be arrang’d. 
The female Flofcules which furround thefe per- 
and flightly 
divided into three Points at the Extremity: thefe 
| have the female Part, as in the others, which is a. 
Rudiment of a Seed with a finele.Style; and 
after thefe, and the tubular or ‘hermaphrodite 
_ Flowers equally, there are produc’d ripe Seeds. 
The Duft from the Buttons of the tubular. 
Flowers impregnates their own Rudiment, and 
alfo this; hence the Name Polygamia : and as 
there are ripen’d Seeds under the tubular Flowers, 
this is of the polygamous fuperfluous Kind. 
Culture of this Senet c10. 
It may be propagated by Cuttings, or tais’d 
from Seeds: the former is the eafier Method, but 
the latter produces the handfomeft Plants: we there- 
fore prefer it; and there is little Trouble. 
‘Let the Seeds be fown upon a common Hot- 
Bed; and when the Plants have been once tranf- 
planted, let them be fet in Pots of Gatden- 
Mould. Let thefe be plac’d under a Frame, and, 
fhaded and water’d till they have taken Root. 
After they have got fome Strength in the Pots, 
let them be brought out in the Middle of a fine | 
Day, and ftand the Summer among the hardier 
Exotics. 
At Autumn let it be remov’d into the Green- 
houfe; and there let the Gardener give it Air, 
and water it often; and let him obferve always, 
as the Flowers fade, to take them off, that none 
may fet for Seed, unlefs where that is wanted: © 
thus it will continue in full Glory thro’ the feve- 
-reft Seafon, and be one of the ereateit Ornaments 
of the Place. | 
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