Pen pees 58 ees. 
es 
he calls, Crocus fpatha univalvi radicali, corolle Fel, 
Seb, den ae Art ‘thas render’d it double, the Beauty is . 
ab > aie : Pek 5 | tubo’ longiffimo: Crocus, with the Tube of the == 
incomparably greater. 
The Segments become numerous, and their 
Colour a yet brighter yellow than inthe fingle 
- Flower. The Bottoms’ of the Segments often 
fwell out into a kind of arched or rounded But- 
tons; and thefe are throughout, except’for a yel- | 
low line along each Edge, of a deep purple. 
The Veins of purple run along the Segments in 
oxeater Number; two, three, ormore, oneach; and | 
fending of Side-Branches at {mall Diftances, thefe 
intermingle among one another, and give the 
whole Flower the: Afpect of a Brocade, whofe 
Ground was gold, and the Flowers. purple- 
velvet. 3 Ha bel 
_ This is a Condition in which the. Crocus makes 
its moft gorgeous Appearance.. It has been ho- 
nour’d under it with the Name of Crocus flove flavo 
vario multiplici. But Linnaus, whom no Forms 
of Chance mifguide, reduces it to the Condition 
of a Variety only of the common Crocus; which 
\ ; ; : go ee ; 
dal a Weta ; 
Flower very long, and the Scabbard rifing from 
the Root in:a fingle Piece. it Li 
This comprehends. all the Varieties. which we 
fee cover the Border of our Gardens. 
Culture. of this C ROCUS. 
This, as»a Creature of the Gardener’s Aut, 
fhould be kept up with all his Care: it will pro- 
duce Off-fets in Abundance; but, if they have 
not a frefh Soil every Year, they will decline in 
Luftre. The beft Method of all is to raife 
the Plant from Seeds. | 
‘The Method we have defcrib’d already in treat- 
ing of the Polyanthous Crocus; and hall only 
add here, that this Kind requires a fomewhat 
richer Soil: the mixing Cow-dung with the 
Mould is the-beft Method; for that fertilizes with- 
out heating. Sint | —— 
2 aie 
XXIII. 
Fig. 6, 
6 DOUBLE BLUE HEPATICA. 
- The Hepatica; common in every Garden, and 
diverfify’d by the Singlenefs and Doublenefs of 
the Flower, and by its various Tinges of blue | 
and red, or by its fimple Whitenefs, is, under all | 
thefe Appearances, but one Species. — | 
It is a Plant extremely fingular in its Kind, 
that needs nothing but to have been more fcarce 
to have been efteem’d extremely. In its natu- 
_ and hangs from the rude German Rocks, with — 
ral State it fringes the Sides of the Swi/s Woods, 
fingle blue Flowers. 
_ Accidents in its wild Growth fometimes tinge 
Pens. ree 
thefe with red; and where the Nourifhment is 
{eanty they will be white; but the Species is - 
throughout the fame; as well as in that Multipli- 
it wear in Gardens. 
~~ All the old. Writers name it; and its common 
‘Title is Hepatica, or Hepatica nobilis. ‘Our 
-Englifb Herbalifts have tranflated thefe Names into 
Liverwort, and Noble Liverwort ; but the Gardener 
~ & 
‘full preferves ‘the Latin Term Hepatica, — 
_It is covered in 
bres, moderately 
thick, and of a reddifh black, varioufly intangled 
DM ONG AMES FE site iy en tee ee | 
The firft Produétion is the Flowers ; thefe rife 
two or more from every Head of the Root; f@ 
that from.a Plant.of confiderable {tanding, it is 
not ftrange to fee forty, fifty, or more, 
in a Clufter ; 
Root. 
all nifing from one principal — 
Thefe ftand fingly upon | flender and, weak | 
-Footftalks, four Inches in Height, and of a pale 
green, ufually ting’d more or lefs with red. 
The Flower which crowns each Stalk is large, 
and of a fine Sky-blue, crouded with oblong un- 
dulated Petals ; and in the Midft decorated with 
| : a {mall Tuft of Buttons plac’d upon numerous 
city of Petals, and -thofe ftronger Colours'we fee | 
Filaments. | | 
The Seeds follow, in the fingle Flowers, naked, 
and clufter’d together in an oval Head: fome alfo 
_are tipen’d after the femi-double Flowers ; but, 
from the perfeét double rarely any. — 
The Student, examining this F lower with the 
Kye of Science, will find it plac’d in a greeit 
Cup, form’d of three Leaves. This will a little — 
ftartle him in an Anemone, the firft Article of 
whofe Character is Calix nullus : but he mutt be 
inform’d, Linn us accounts this Cup as a leafy 
-Involucrum, tho’ lefs remote from: the Flower 
_than that of the Pul/atilla. - 
Filaments, crown’d with a kind of double Bue: 
~The Student knows that where the Stamina are 
nume- 
