Plate 3 | We propofe here to the Gardener 
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| like: Kinds a6 two. Sorts of Flofcules: thofe in 
f the Difk are the moft perfect ; they 
ate tubular, and nip’d into five Segments at the 
| ftand five Filaments, 
| the Edge have only the 
| its Pitt. ) 
aa sapetlad | alfo thefe Parts in the tubular Flow; _ 
- CommeLinz, who receiv’d the Seeds from 4- 
frica, under the Name of thofe of a Centaurea, 
call’d the Plant herais’d from them, facohea Africana 
frutefcens folio longo &F glauco. — Linna&vs, 
Othonna foliis baftatis integerrimis > Othonna with 
{pear-headed undivided Leaves. ; ? 
" ‘The Root is white and fibrous. +) 2 
The Plant rifes in. an erect and regular Growth ]| 
co four Foot in Height. ‘The Stalk is round, hard, | - 
sn fome Degree woody ; {mooth on the Surface, | 
purplith toward the Bafe; and, in the reft of its 
Height, of a whit green 
The Leaves are very long and beautiful: they 
erow to the Stalk by a hollow Bafe; and from | 
that Part where they are ‘proadeft, diminifh toa | ] 
Point; They are lightly and irregularly wav’d or : 
and their Colour is a fine blueifh ereen, 1] 
The Flowers are plac’d in great Tufts at the 
Tops of numerous Branches, which rifing from 
the Bofoms of the upper Leaves, form, in the | 
‘Whole, a broad and fpreading Umbell.. They 
are fmall, and.of the compofite radiated Kiud. 
Their Colour is yellow; paler in the Rays, and 
deeper in the Difk, but every where very ele- 
finuated, as 
| Buthel of Sant, oe ae co 
’ Tn a Pot fill’d with fome of this Compoft, let 
him fow the Seeds, obtain’d from Africa, oF ri- 
pen’d here, early in Spring. Let the Pot be fet 
-up to the Rim in a Bark-Bed ; and when the 
_ young Plants rife, let all, except three or four, 
be pull’d ieee = iP } 
Let thefe, by frequent ‘Waterings, be brought 
anting; then let them 
gant 
The Seeds which follow thefe are wing’d with | toa Height fit for Tranfpl 
~ Down. pu a be plac’d each in a feparate Pot; and again fet in 
the Bark-Bed till rooted. . Then let them by De- 
The Cup in which each F lower ftands, we have 
obferv’d is form’d of a fingle Piece, deep cut into 
Segments at the Top: 
they are narrow and pointed. 
‘The Flower itfelf is compos’d, as in others o 
_ grees be inur’d to the Air. Let them be fet out 
in Summer, among the Greenhoufe Plants, and 
at Autumn taken into Shelter with them. They 
¢ | will flower in Winter. 
thefe are about twelve, and 
. CANARY SHRUB SAINT JOHN’s WORT. 
“Plate The Profufien of golden E Nature wantons in thofe Parts of Impregnation 
i on which the modern Science refts. 
The Shrub is a Yard high, and varioufly 
and all | branched. The Root is woody, {preading, and 
ers, C Branches are ting’d with purple. The extreme 
PLuKENET, Androfemum, magnum Canarienfe. — \ Shoots are green and fquare; but when they have 
Linnaus, Hypericum floribus trigynts, ftood a little, they lofe the Ridges and that herba- 
obtufis, flaminibus corolla brevioribus, caule fruticofo : 
Shrub Sz. fobn’s Wort, with obtufe Cups, with 
three Styles in the Flower, and the Filaments | gant green. 
fhorter than the Petals. —A long Name, but not 
-unneedfully fo: the Hypericums are numerous, and 
TH na¥ 
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ceous Colour. | 
The Leaves are oblong, broad, and of an ele- 
When held up againft the Light - 
Subftance, not full of Mil- 
