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Fig. a. 
Flowers far from inconfpicuous. 
hung with many white F ibres. 
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oe COLDEN ARCTOTIS, 
The wild eieinilinigp af Giewth in seis Pint 
is not its leaft Recommendation ; buti it has befide, 
Leaves of an agreeable Form and Colour, — 
The late “Writers in this Science all knew it, 
but they have called it fome by Hinproper, and Q- 
thers by ftrange uncouth Names. © 
VAILLANT has named it an Aratotheca ; Bo- 
ERHAAVE and CoMMELINE, an Anemofperimos 5 
and PETIVER a Facobea. Linn vs joining 
_ with BorRHAAVE and VaILtanT in feparating it | 
from all other Genera, names it Arétotis, as. do | 
| ftands very confpicuous a hairy Rudiment of 
| a Seed. This is of an oval Form, but marked with 
VANROYEN; and the reft of the more modern 
Writers. 
The Plant is varioufly Beditindt and difpertes 
its Ramifications oe Leaves in a pleafing Wild- 
nefs. 
The Root is long, thick, and yellow, and 1s 
The Stalk is round, thick, tender, and fpungy. 
Its general Colour is a dufky green, but it has 
Spats of white, and toward the Infertions of the 
Branches,’ is often ting’d withpurplé, "a, 4: 
The Leaves are large, oblong, and, jageed, | 
and finuated with a fikeaet F feedoni their Co- 
lour is a deep and dufky green, but the mid- 
dle Rib toward’ the Stalk is often red: at the 
_ Fops of all the Branches ftand the EF lowers one at 
the Extremity of each. » | 
Thefe are large, of a radiated Form, and they 
are pleafingly variegated in Colour; the Difk in 
ee Seeds of the Anemone. | 
Plant Anemone Affinis, and thofe who followed os | 
the Centre is of a ftrong gold yellow, the Rays are 
of a paler yellow, but ftill with a golden Tinge, 
and very agreeable ; and on the Outfide they have 
fome yellow, efpecially toward the Edges; but 
the general Colour is a beautiful deep Crimfon : 
the Seeds are hairy, and ftand after the F iach is 
fallen, in a kind of Button. q 
~'Thefe Herman thought refembled the Had 
He thence called the 
for the fame Reafon, Anemono/permos. 
~ "The Propriety of a new Name will be very | evi- 
dent from this, and the Addition - by which 
 Linnaus has’ “diftinguifhed the Species as cor- | 
rect: he calls it Ariotis foliis pinnato-finuatis laci- 
nits oblongis dentatis. Arctotis with pinnato-finua- 
ted Leaves and oblong dentated Segments, 
’ The Flower when examined by the Eye of Sci- 
ence, does not want ‘its Singularity. : 
The Cup in which it ftands, is of a roundith 
Form, and“imbricated Stru@ture: the Scales of 
which it is compofed, are of three Kinds, dif- 
pofed i in three diftinct Affortments. 2 
The lower Range are loofe, and grow fmaller 
to a Point at the Top, thofe of the upper Range 
are oblong, and have a rounded, hollow, fhining. 
Enid, and the middle Ranges are oval. 
The Flower placed in rtd like others of the 
radiated compofite Kinds, is form’d of two 
Sorts of Flofcules. In the Difk are numerous 
| who firft difcovered it; 
by this Defcription of the Parts, readily fee to 
| belt Method is by Cuttings. 
' lbilae ones, and the Verg about ewty of the 
_higulated Kind. a< 
ini the tubular Flofeules are e'plated five Fi- 
| Jaments with oblong Buttons, uniting: into @ 
| Cylinder, and terminated by five Dents ; and a- 
mong thefe a fingle Style. Thefe tubular Flof- 
_ cules widen to the Top, where they are divided into 
_ five Segments which turn back. 
The ligulated Flowers have a very fhort tubu- 
_ lar Bafe, and their flat Body is long, and lightly 
_ nicked in three Parts at the Extremity. 
In thefe there are no Filaments, but there 
four Ridges, and crowned with a leafy Cup, 
| the Seis very fmall, but three of them which. 
| ftand outward, are larger than the others, and i in- 
-cumbent ; the others minute and diftant. 
From this Rudiment..rifes a fingle and very 
| fie Style, « crowned with two thick, apsaht Tops, 
| Or Stigmata, of an oblong and {fomewhat oval. 
| Form. | | 
Fhe tubular Flofcules produce no Seeds, but 
after thefe ligulated Ones come fingle Seeds, 
_ which are round, hairy, and ftand in a Clufter, 
crowned with the oval Leaves of the Cup. 
They might well perceive this Plant differed 
| from thofe of all the before named Genera, 
and our Student will 
what Clafs it belongs in the Linnaan Syf- 
tem. 
The Crd ehienes. of ‘hp Buttons onthe Fila- 
ments, refers it to the fyngenefious Tribe ; and the 
-Flofcules in the Difk producing no Seeds, the 
various Impregnation from their Buttons in the 
_ ligulated Flowers of the Rim, fhews it to be one © 
of the Polygamia neceffaria. 
Culture of the GorpEn ArcToris. 
The Plant may be raifed from Seeds ; but the 
Thefe te Root 
very freely, and foon grow into handfome Plants. 
The Gardener is to obferve, that he does not 
let them make any Shoots too low, for they will 
be troublefome to fuipport ; but for all the reft, 
| he fhould fuffer them to fpread in their natural 
Wildnefs: and it will be beft to raife Plants in 
this Manner very frequently, to fupply the Place 
of the old ones, which are more fubje& to decay, 
and at beft have lefs Beauty: the Leaves being | 
fewer, and thofe as fieHt as every other Part lefs 
lively. 
In the latter End of May, let a Border of rich 
Mould be well dug and broke; and in this, let 
the Gardener plant as many handforme Cuttings as 
he defires to-raife. 
‘Let them be-taken from thriving, healthy 
Plants, and fet at eight Inches diftance. | 
When: they-are in sthe Ground, let them have 
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