OF GARDENING. 
207 
Feb. 
Plate | 
XXII. 
Fig. 3. 
_ innumerable Fibres. 
upright, and feven Foot high : 
: woody, and - its Colour biown ‘toward the Bot- 
This burfting. on. the inner Side they throw 
- themfelves out three or four from “each Head. © 
They have long and very flender Foot-ftalks, and © 
their Weight being too much for thefe tender 
Supports to carry erect, hangs them drooping. 
They are form’d like little Bells ; and in Colour: 
are of a perfect fnowy white, 
Each is compofed of fix broad 
unite at the Bafe ; and within ¢. thefe 
the other, fix Filaments and a fi: 
ftand as in 
Petals, which | ° 
this is flender, and not clavated as in that. 
This Plant, as a Species of the fame Genus, 
evidently belongs to the fame Clafs with the laf, 
the Hexandria Monogynia, and being a Native. of 
the fame Parts of Europe, and found in the fame 
kind of Soil and Situation, nothing | tik vagened is 
required in its Culture. ; 
The fame Directions we have given for the laft 
ftand good for this, andi it will ig be raifed tothe 
Yeates Sty le.” but ! fame Perfection. 
3. Got AMD AS GLE PLAS. 
Students, and as long celebrated for its Singu- 
larity and Beauty. 
Moft Authors rank it among: the decom: ; 
-but Linnaus, who -has very .accurately efta- 
blifh’d the Diftinctions. between the Apocynum 
and Afclepias, refers it to the latter of thofe 
Genera. : 
PLUKENET, and the Generality of thofe who 
jus latifolium indicum. 
the Diftinction of the Species, foltis amplemecaultibus 
eblougo ovatis : ; 
embracing the Stalk. .The common Name by 
which our Gardeners know it is, Beidel offar. 
_ Avprinus defcribes it under this Title among . 
- his Zgyptian Plants 5 
“Sound has implanted it on vulgar Memories ; 
while thofe Names which have known and di- 
and the Strangenefs of the 
ftinctive Meanings, if underftood, are foon. for- 
cotten, 
The Root Caress under the Surface, and has 
The Stalk is firm, tough, 
_and upwards purplifh, ting’d with green. 
Their Shape is oblong, 
tOM 5. 
The Leaves are large. 
with a Tendency to oval, and they have an ébtaKe 
Point. Two ftand at each joint; and having 
no Foot-ftalks, their broad Bafes clofe about the 
Stalk : their Colour is a fine green on the upper 
Side, and paler underneath ;° and their Ribs which 
are very high and confpicuous, are naturally of 
a whitith green, but often ting’d with purple. 
The Flowers fpread from the: Extremities of | 
the Stalks into a kind of ~Umbells; and are 
extreamly: fingular and elegant. They are of a 
pale red eotards: the Ends of the Petals, and~ 
 whitifh, with a.Tinge of green ‘at their Baie, 
but in the Middle of the Flower the Colour is a 
very lively ‘red. : | 
This Variation in the Colour of every: F lower, 
their Elegance fingle, and the full Beauty of the. 
regular Clufter of them, ftamp upon the Plant a 
Puede: of Elegance none fhould neglect who 
are at the Expence of raifing Exoticks. 
After each Flower there come two Pods, large, 
fwoln, and of ‘a lively, green, ting’d varioufly | — 
E 
This is a Plant long known to she botanical -with purple: 
Linn aus referring it to. the Aelepias, adds, as | Petal divided deeply into five Segments : 
are large, and of an oval Form, but pointed. at the _ 
Afclepias, with oblong oval Leaves" Tip, and they naturally bend a little; thefe have 
’Flower. 
its Subftance | 
‘| pleafe our-Student. 
but from the largeft Clufter of 
Flowers few of thefe are produced ; for the Ge- 
nerality are abortive. : 
This is the general. Figure 2; the Plant, but 
its Flowers demand a more ftrict Attention 5 for 
‘few are more fingular. _ 
Each Flower has its Sakic Gap. ‘This 1s. 
very fmall, form’d of a fingle Piece, and nick’d 
have follow’d him, call it Apocynum cae tae in five Parts at the Rim. 
The Body of the Flower is form’d of a kos 
thefe 
the light red Tinge we mention’d. In the outer 
Part ‘of the F ewe. and the united Part at the 
| Bottom is whitifh and greenith. : 
In the Midft of the Flower ftand ‘five Nettaria | 
or Glandules, with ‘a kind of: folid: Plates or _ 
thefe converge, and .. 
they are of the fine high and gaudy red which. 
we have defcrib’d inthe central Part of the 
Thefe folid Plates arifing from the - 
| Glandules are altogether fingular. — iS wit 
Scales rifing from them 3 
Fhe Glandules ‘themfelves: are’ found in the 
Flowers of ‘all: the 4/clepias kind; but in the 
others they are auriculated outward, and: have a 
‘kind of Horn turning its Point inward. The 
Plates in this Flower give it an Afpect unlike not — 
only to the others of its Kind, but to pie Thing | 
in Nature. | 
In the Centre ftand five F ‘taments, fo fhort, 
that they would not be perceiv’d but for their 
Buttons, which are large and oblong: thefe are 
| fix’d to a fhort truncated Body, ipliting at the 
Sides in five Parts. 
The Styles are two, and they, like the Fila- 
ments, are fo fhort, that but for their Stigmata. 
or Tops they would fcarce be diftinguifhable. 
~The extreme Singularity of this Flower, which 
would perplex any one not led by the true 
Path into this Science, will only furprize and 
While he admires thefe pecu- 
liar Parts and Forms, he will fee very obvioufly 
that the five Buttons refer it to the fifth Clafs in 
the Linn an Syftem, and that the two Styles 
place it in the fecond Dee under that Clafs, 
the Digynia. gan 
Culture: 
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