Feb 
Plate 
is ufually reddifh, efpecially toward the Bafe. 
i 
an auftere Flavour at going off, . . .. 
The Flowers cover ' the Top of the Plant in a 
reddith Footftalks, at Diftances. wie Fi 
“The Flowers themfelves are of a {nowy white : 
accidentally they are fometimes ting’d with a 
Bluth of Fleth-Colour, which gives them a fin- 
gular Afpeé ; but the Beauty is not lefs in the | 
true and genuine milky Whitenefs. 
The Seed-veflels are roundifh, and terminated 
by a Point; and in each are a Number -of {mall - 
Seeds. — 
The. Student, examining this Flower, ‘will | 
perceive that its Cup is form’d of a fingle Piece, 
long, fomewhat oval’ in Form, and {fpread wide 
open. In the Centre ftand twelve fhort Filaments, 
itfelf; has three Stigmata or Tops ; this is pecu- 
liar to the prefent Species, the others have five. 
OF GARDENING 
‘The Middle Rib, efpecially in the lower 
Leaves, is large and confpicuous, and its Colour 
The 
Tafte is watery; but there is a latent Acidity and 
| thefe rational Principles : 
the Plant is native, and its favourable Soil, and 
Method, and its firft SeGtion. 
Culture of this Porét arn. 
: this declares its Culture. 
_. We dire&t our Gardener to form him 
to accommodate .all he does here to the Refem- 
blance. 
Early in Spring let the Seeds obtain’d from 
America, or gather’d here, for either anfwer very 
well, be fow’d upon a common Hot-Bed, with 
other Annuals. 
When they have acquir’d fome Strength in the 
firft Shoot, let them be tranfplanted with the other : 
_ Kinds into a fecond, and thence into a third Hot- 
Bed. | | 
and is. of a ‘peculiar Stru@ture, fplit into two} J 
Parts, and comprefs’d at the Top: this is pe- | 
culiar to the Purflain Kind; but it is univerfal | 
among them, 
' The Flower itfelf is form’d of five Petals, ob- | chofen to be preferv’d, be planted into feparate 
Pots of rich Garden-Mould. Let them be fre- 
} quently water’d, and kept under a Hot- Bed: 
each top’d with its round Button; and bury’d | 
among thefe is the Style, which, tho’ fimple in ; Earth: then let them be fet out with the other 
This is the beft Method ; and where the whole 
Autumnal Store is rais’d together, the Trouble 
Ought not to deter the Gardener. 
From the third Bed let as many as there are 
Frame, till they are well ftrengthned in the new 
Greenhoufe Plants, and kept in the free Air till 
| Autumn: they are then to be remov’d into the 
The Student will have no Difficulty to refer this | 
Plant to its proper Clafs, Twelve Filaments and 
Greenhoufe, where they will flower in Perfeétion ; 
and their Leaves will give a fine Variety, 
a fingle Style declare it to-be one of the Dodecan- ). 
dria Monogynia,. the twelfth Clafs in the Lan At AN mere 
» native of the warmer 
and fond of a deep, moift, and 
If upon 
to"learn the Place where 
tibus. foliis pinnatifidis, 
and hung with numerous Fibres. 
Jour. 
3) MULTIFID-LEAV’D AFRICAN SENECIO, 
wort Kind, among the earlier Writers; but to | 
Linnavus we ‘owe a better Diftinction ; and, 
among the /yugenefious Genera, that of Senecio 
properly receives it: many befide this, being, ac- 
cording to that Method, refer’d to the prefent 
Genus, as the Afer Senicionis foliis of Comme- 
ting: this Vorxamer made a Yacobea, and 
Linnzzus has nam’d it Senecio corollis radian- 
Footftalks, which rife from the Bofoms of the 
Leaves and Tops of the feveral Branches, They 
are large, and of the compofite radiated Kind. 
The Rays are yellow on the Infide, but of a deep 
purple without; and the Difk in the Middle is 
yellow. ie ae Sie . 
_ The Student, examining this Plant with the 
Eye of Science, will find the Difk compos’d of 
numerous Flofcules, tubular, oblong, and divided 
Into five Segments at the Edge. The Rays fur- 
round this from twelve to twenty in Number ; 
and the whole Flower is plac’d in a Cup form’d 
of many narrow Scales, furrounded at the Bafe by 
a f{maller Number of broader, whofe Tops are 
wither’d. , | | 
In each Flofcule are plac’d five F ilaments, 
whofe Buttons -coalefce into a Cylinder; and this 
fhews it one of the /yngenefous Clafs, as are all 
the other Plants of the difcoide Kind, whether ra- 
diate or naked, ie ee 
- The Root of this Species is oblong, brown, 
- The Stalk is upright, flender, and divided into 
many Branches. a 
The Leaves are numerous; and their greyifh 
green, with the natural brown Hue of the 
main Stalk, gives a pleafing Variety of Co- 
They are long, and divided in the Manner of 
a Stag’s Horn into numerous Segments from a 
whitifh Colour they have when young, they grow 
tnore and more green as they expand; but at 
3 Culture 
_ The Flowers are plac’d fingly upon long naked 
