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 Fub-O-RAy or: the PumasurE-GARDEN. 
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Curious Plants. and Flowers now in their Perfettion. . 
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we | N elegant, bold, and noble Plant ; native 
' ' of Europe, and bearing our Winters with- 
- and thofe of a moft fingular Dignity in Afpect, 
The Botanifts, for many Ages, have been fa- 
miliarly acquainted with it; but ’twas not at firft. 
known by the proper Name. 
~Moft ‘have’ call’d it an Helleborus: A.pinus, 
a Bupbthalmum. Linnaus, who has refer’d 
it to the proper Genus, Adonis, adds, as its 
fpecific Diftinction, floribus pentdecapetalis frutiu 
ovato. . | ; 
The Root is form’d of numerous thick and 
black Fibres, fpreading every Way, and entang- 
ling varioufly one among another. <<? 
The firft Leaves are extremely elegant ; their 
Colour is a fine deep green, and their F’ oot-ftalks 
are purple: they are divided in the pinnated 
Manner; and, what may be call’d the Pinnz, or 
diftin& Leaves, are oblong, pointed, and have 
{ome Breadth. 
The Stalk is round and thick, tho’ low. It 
wowd be upright, but that the Weight of the 
Flower is to much for its fteady Support. 
© Where it rifes from the Ground ’tis reddith ; 
and often there hang about it a few Films of a 
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purplith brown. Upward it is of a. pale gteen, 
with fome Tinge of yellowith; and it is all the. 
Way dufted with little grey tranfparent Globules, 
Thefe are the. Extremities of fo many round 
evanefcent fecretory Ducts; as the Hairs of other 
Plants are the more permanent Extremities of 
theirs. This Ufe of them Guettarp difcover’d. 
Linn aus adopts the Opinion; and the Microfcope | 
Contra it, Fre) har ye | - a 
- The Leaves on the upper Part of the Stalk 
have lefs Breadth, and are more irregularly di- 
vided than thofe at its Bottom; but they retain, 
the fame Tinct only fainter. Fae 3 
The Flower is vaft; and when the Root has 
ftood to get good Strength, and numerous Stalks 
rife from it together, the Tuft is crown’d with a . 
continued Head of them, confpicuous at 4 Di- 
ftance, and elegant on nearer Examination, 
The Bignefs of the Flower, when the Plant 
thrives perfectly, is that of the largeft fingle 
Anemone: its Colour perfect gold. | 
The Cup in which it ftands is in itfelf beauti- 
ful: five elegant oval Leaves compofe it, and they 
are of a fine yellowifh green; a proper Gra- 
dation of Nature between the perfect green of 
the Leaves, and full yellow of the Petals. 
The Body of the Flower is form’d of an un- 
Tet certain 
Feb, 
