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Feb, Time, and every Year afterwards they will be { to fet it in a Bark-Bed. — hie Feb; 
more numerous. When the Plarits which rife this Way are large 
When the Method of raifing from Seed is pre- | enough to be remov’d, four or five of therii 
fer’d, the Plants are to be treated in the Way of fhould be planted in one Pot, and the fame Me- 
other Greenhoufe Kinds : and it is beft té fow the | thod taken to bring them to flowering that we have 
Seeds in a Pot of the a jutt direéted, and | dire¢ted for the others. 
z. CREEPING OTHONNA. 
Plate The Singularity of this Plant carries a fufficient | Piece, rounded at the Bottom, and divided at the 
XXIV. Recommendation for all the Care and Culture it 
Fig. 5. 
_ in a regular Syftem, has been eftablith’d. 
_of Nature, lie upon the Ground, or hang among 
requires. We read of it in moft who have had 
Opportunities of examining the African Plants ; 
but ’tis not till of very late Time its true Place, 
It has been call’d a Facobea; and its common 
Addition of Diftinétion has Pera Hedera terreftris 
folio repens. 
Linnvs, to whom in his later Works we 
owe its proper Diftinction, rank’d it, in fome of his 
earlier, among the Solidago’s; and others: have. 
follow’d him in it; but in his lateft Works he 
makes it an Othonna. 
The Reafon will be fufficiently feen when: we. 
come to examine the Flower: and he adds, as its 
fpecific Diftinction, foliis reniformibus fuborbicula- 
tis denticulatis petiolatis: Othonna, with roundith 
but fomewhat kidney-fhap’d Leaves, dented at 
the Edges, and plac’d on Footftalks. 
It is a Plant too weak to raife itfelf from the 
Ground; but with proper ‘Supports, it will reach 
to fix or feven Foot in Height. 
The Root is long, whieé, tender, and hung 
with many Fibres. : 
The Stalks are numerous; and, in the State 
the Branches of Shrubs, fpreading every Way; 
till from one Root a Space of many Yards will be 
covered. The Colour ‘of’ thefe is brown toward 
the Ground, and green upwards. 
‘The Leaves cover thefe irregularly : they slaves 
long Footftalks, hollow.on the upper Side,’ 
rounded below, and of a pale green. Colour. 
The Leaves. themfelves are rounded on the outer 
Edge, but hollow’d to receive the Stalk. “They 
are fharply dented on the Edges; and. their Co- 
lour is a. pale. green, but lyslys 5 and often the 
Ribs are redifh. 
The Flowers cloath the T ops of all ee Stalks | 
in large Tufts, refembling Umbells, of a loofe 
Compofition; each one being large, and Plac’d : 
on a long F ooti{talk. 
| and other Parts of Africa. 
Edge into about eight oblong Segments. 
The Flower itfelf confifts, as in others of this 
kind, of a Difk, form’d of a Multitude of tubu-. 
lar Flofeules, and furrounded by about eight fe- 
| male or ligulated Flofcules at the Edge: but this. 
Number is not certain, any more than. that of - 
the Segments of the Cup. 
The tubular Flofcules are very “hs and cen 
are divided into five Segments at the Rim: in thele 
are plac’d five Filaments with coalefcent Buttons, - 
and there are -alfo the Rudiments of the female. ; 
Parts, but thefe are ufually imperfect, and confe-. > 
quently abortive. 
The female Flofcules are flat, oblong, and natu- 
rally, when ripe, they turn back. Thefe have no Fi- - 
laments; but from the Rudiment of the Seed’: — 
there rifes. a-fingle Style, with a large Stigma or 
Top, which is divided into two Parts, and turn’d - 
| backward, 
From. this Conftruction of the F lower, the | 
Student knows the Plant is one of the Syngenefia s 
and to learn under which of the Subdivifions of 
that Clafs it is to ftand, he muft examine it with 
refpect to the Seeds. He will find every one of - 
the ligulated Flofcules fucceeded by a.fingle Seed; 
but fcarce any will be found to follow the tubular 
ones‘ of the Difk, their fetiale Pafts being, as 
we have obferv’d, abortive. 
*Tis for this Reafon fo large a Provifioti i is 
| made by Nature in the Stigma of the female or 
| ligulated Flofcules ;. they having no Filaments of 
their own, but depending on the Farina, from 
thofe.of the tubular F lofcules, fer their Impreg- 
‘nation. 
“The Plant therefore is one of the Siospenef a 
Polygamia. Neceffaria, ‘the Impregnation from the > 
Central Flofcules not being fuperfluous. 
Culture of this OTHONNA, 
The Plant is a Native of the Cape of Géod Hope, 
It winds among the 
Thefe are of the compofite radiated Kind, but 
the Rays are few: thefe are of a pale and the 
Difk are of a deeper yellow. | without great Labour; and hangs: in ftreaming 
The Flower examined accurately, the Clafs of the | Branches of eight, ten, and twelve Foot Length | 
Plant will be evidently difcover’d; nor will it be-| down the fteep Banks of the endlefs River + as far + Near the 
lefs plain with. how much Reafon the later Authors | up as its Source has -hitherto been trae’d. The Cape. 
feparate it from the Facobza’s. {porting of its wanton. Branches in the Winds, 
The Cup fhews a plain, Difference from all | and the Reflexion of its perpendicular Tufts of 
thofe Kinds: it is not, as in them, compos’d of | golden Flowers from the Surface of the Water, 
many’ Series of Scales, but form’d of a fingle | are extremely pleafing. 
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Thickets of the Lion’s Mountain *, fo as to ren- * Near she 
der them; by its entangled Stalks, impenetrable P*- 
There 
