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. This is a Plant of very fingular and agreea* 
ble Afpect: the Form and Colour of its Leaves, 
, the natural Wildnefs of its Branches, and the 
Difpofition of its Flowers all = the Eye ex- 
- tremely. | ae 
The earlier Writers were not acquainted with 
it: and thofe who firft defcribed joined it rafhly 
with the Ketmias. ComMMELINE Calls it, Ketmia 
Africana frutefcens foliis mollibus &F imanis. PETI-- 
ver diftinguifhed it by a new Name, Hermannia, 
and under this it ftands defcribed by Linn vs, 
Vawroyen, and the reft of the modern Botanitts. 
The firtt adds as the Diftinétion of the Species, — 
foliis qvatis plicatis Crenatts tomentofis: Hermannia 
with oval, woolly, folded and crenated Leaves. 
The Plant tho’ fhrubby, is but of low Sta- 
ture : two or three Feet is its utmoft Height. , 
The Root is divided, white, and hung with 
Fibres. The Stem is brown: the Branches which 
{pread varioufly, are whitifh, tender, and covered 
with a foft Down. 
_. The Leaves ftand upon thefe in perfect Irrepu- 
larity; they are oblong, deeply finuated along 
the Edges, and of a whitifh green, covered thick 
with a foft downy Matter, which makes them 
ical like Velvet. | | 
- The Flowers are very numerous, and of a fin- 
ul ar Afpect, they grow at the Tops of the 
Branches, and on Footftalks from the Bofoms of 
the Leaves, two or three on each. | 
_ They are large, they droop, or hang down- 
wards; and they are twifted. Their Colour is a 
very delicate pale yellow. | 
_ Thee rife from a downy Cup, a and at the 
Bafe of their Foot-ftalks are placed regularly 
| three oblong, narrow, undivided Leaves. 
The Cup is formed of a fingle Piece, fwell- 
ed at the Bafe, and divided at the Rim into” five 
- Segments. | | 
The Flower itfelf” is asted: of age. oblong 
Petals: thefe fpread at the Mouth, and turn to- 
ward the Sun; and at the Bafe they grow very 
 f{mall, and have on each a Membrane runniag 
- “fideways, which together form a nectiferous Tribe. 
- In this Flower ftand five Filaments, which 
lightly cohere at the Bafe, and among thefe rifes 
Ridges. 
WOOLLY HER MANNIA. 
a Stile, which exceeds them in Length. 
a he Seed- veffel ig roundifh, but has five! 
The Seeds are numerous and fmall. — 
.. The Number of the Filaments muft not in — 
a ‘Cafe determine the Clafs, but their Cos! 
_ alefcence into one Body at the Bottom. 
The Student knows this is the ‘Charatter of 
ne monadelphous Tribe : and this Plant belongs . 
to the firft Divifion of that “Clafs, thofe which 
have ‘five Filaments’: that being the {malleft 
Number _ that is found ever to coalefce at the 
Bafe. 
Culture of the Wooury HERMANNIA. 
The Plant is a Native of Africa, where it | 
thrives beft in a Soil that is loofe and free; 
“not too rich, and with fome Moifture. 
This muft be our Indication of its Culture. 
| Let a Compoft be made for it thus. 
Mix a Barrow of Earth from a dry Pa- 
fture, a Barrow of Pond-mud, and a Bufhel of 
Sand. Turn thefe feveral Times, that they may 
be well blended, and have the Benefit of the 
Air. o 
In this Soil, the Plant may be propagated 
either from Seeds or by Slips; but the Me- 
thod by Slips, I have always found to be the 
beft ; ‘and that for a plain Reafon. 
_ The Seedlings are to be tranfplanted, and they 
do not well bear it. , 
If any Way of Sowing be proper, it is to fcatter 
a few of the Seeds upon fome of this Compoft, in 
a Pot, and covering them lightly, to leave them 
to fhoot in a Hot-bed ; and then pulling up all 
in each Pot but the ftrongeft Plant, to harden that 
to the Air by Degrees, without removing. 
In the Way we propofe by Slips, we fhall 
direct the Gardener to put fome of the Com- 
poft into Pots, and to place fome in two or three 
different Spots of a dry, warm, and well fheltered 
Border. 
Let the Slips be fhaded and watered carefully 
till they have taken Root; and they will thus 
come the fecond Year to flowering 
5. SAMPIRE LEAV’D SANTOLINA. 
This is a very handfome, as ‘well as fingular 
Plant. The Leaves are unlike moft of thofe of 
“@ ,, the Greenhoufe Plants, and the F lowers though 
fingly very trifling, ftand in fuch Clufters that 
they attract the Fye and fatisfy it. 
Pruxsnet and CommELine have figured it; 
but both under improper Names. The ‘fit waits 
“it Facobea foliis abrotani ,;—the other Coma aurea 
-foliis Crithmi. Linn aus who has deferved greatly 
of the botanical World, by properly arranging the 
fyngenefious Plants, makes this a Santolina. | 
He adds as a Diftinction of the Species, Corym- 
bis Simplicibus faftigiatis, foliis femitrifidis linearibus. 
Narrow and trifid leav’d Santolina, with fimple 
faftigiated Clufters of Flowers. | 
It is a Shrub of fix Feet high. The Root 
is woody and fpreading. The Trunk is firm 
and upright, and is covered with a rough Bark 
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