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and mark’d by four Ridges. : 
joinings of four Valves, of which it is compos’d, 
: yuns out, 
its. upper. Surface. : 
What makes this corifpictious Appearance is | 
the Cup, for there are no Petals. This is form’d 
of a fingle Piece, but is divided deeply into four 
oval Segments : thefe ftand wide expanded, and 
mimick fo many Petals by their Colouring as 
well as Form, but they remain to defend the 
Fruit. oe 
In the Centre rifes a fhort Style, fimple in 
Form, and terminated by an obtufe Top; and 
upon its Summit are placed four Filaments; fo 
very fhort, that they are only ostingeid by 
their Buttons. 
The Seed Veffel is columnar, oblong; arigulated, 
Thefe {hew the 
and it opens in four Places: the Seeds are nume- 
rous and light. | 
From the Situation of due F ‘laments, the Stu- 
dent will know he is to determine the Clafs to 
which this Plant belongs in the Linnaan Sy- 
item. They grow upon the Style. This is the 
‘Mark of the Gyvandria ; and their Number fhews 
the Plant to belong to that si which « com- 
prehends the Tetrandria. : 
The Reader is impatient to return to the Ac- 
count of thofe ftrange Appendages, which are 
continued from the Pocctehtities of the Leaves. 
They are fo many Veffeéls containing a clear, 
wholefome, and well tafted Water, riaeh, has 
faved the Lives of many perifhing in thofe hot 
and dry Climes with Thirft. 
Thefe Vefels from the Beginning turn upward, 
that they may hold the Liquor; at firft their 
Colour is a whitifh green, afterwards they be- 
‘come yellow, and in the End purplifh. The lit- 
tle Piece falls over them very clofe while {mall, 
but when they are of the full Bignefs, and replete 
with the Water, they gape; and in the End the 
Weight of the Liquor bears down the Vefiel.; it 
and then the Part fades. : 
The Liguor contain’d in thefe ftrange Vettels 
is Water, little or nothing alter’d by: Pe Plants : 
and the Veflels themfelves are the dilated Extre- 
mities of fecretory Glands. 
Things which appear moft rcinckindia Eiaaie 
familiar when. a continued Obfervation leads the 
‘Way to them. Glands of this Kind are. very 
common in, Plants; tho’ rarely fo confpicuous. 
‘They. cover the whole Stalk in the Diamond 
Mafembryanthemum ; in the Urena they are fituated 
on the Back of the Leaf, and in the Sundew on 
Fluid, but.’tis in few Inftances that:is detain’d 1 in 
a kind of Veffel. 7 
. We fee it fo, however, in the Leaves of the 
Saracena; in the Maregravia ina kind of Veffels 
raifed from:the Centre of the Umbel ; and in this 
Plant, not in the Leaf itfelf, but a peculiar Ap- 
pendagee This is the Linnaan Doétrine, and 
this Nature confirms. 
Where Moifture is redundant, whether Nature 
affords, or injudicious Labour give it in that 
Quantity, it mutt, and it will be difcharg’d, 
N° 2B ‘ 
OF GARDENING. 
out in big round Drops. 
when over fupply’d with Water, the fine and 
flender Extremities of the Leaves fweat out the 
fign’d by Providence, 
All thefe fecrete a watery 
We fee the Sundew;, 
In the 4ithiopian Calla, 
Load in continued Drops. This Comme tine faw 
in Holland, as well as we in England; and in the 
dimerican HHarts-tongue the faane Incident ptopa=" 
gates the Plant. 
The fine and fmall End of the Leaf is there bent 
to the Earth by the Weight of the Prop it eradual- 
ly fecretes : another and another follows, as it re- 
mains in that Situation; and the Plant being full 
of Life takes Root there, and produces a nei 
Stock, itfelf fix’d te the Earth by Roots at each 
Extremity. i i 
Thefe are Rin ab of a Secretion of 
this Kind, tho’ not generally tinderftood; sand 
this in the Nepenthes is little more. 
a minute Plant, throw it 
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The Plant grows in thick Forefts, where its — 
long Fibtes fupply it well with pits. and no 
Sun comes to exhale it. | 
_ At the End of its Leaves are placed Glands; 
as in the othets; btit here they fwell with the 
increafing ay and furnith a Supply, fo de-_ 
for the Prefervation of 
perhaps more than the human Species, 
The Quantity prodticed on a fingle Plant is 
fufficient to quench the Thirft of the moft de- 
{pairing Traveller ; 
and by the Marks of Teeth 
upon the faded Vefiels, it is evident Beafts often 
fiipply their Wants at the fame plenteoug Source, 
Culture of the NEPENtHES,; 
The Plant lives only in shick fgets, where 
the Soil is mellow, rich, and light. 
This muft be our Guide in preparing a Boke 
poft for its Reception ; and the Warmth of its. 
native Climate declares that. it will require our 
beft Care in the Stove, We beftow it on many 
Things lefs worthy, and let it. not’ be pin 
for this. , 
. The Seis fhould iz procured Hiei Ceylon, or 
other Places where the Plant is Native: and for the 
Soil, a Mixture fhould be made of the mott rich 
Garden Mould, with one-third Part Earth from 
under a Wood-pile; with a little. Marle, and about 
as much harfh Sand. Ar Quart of each of thee 
aft Ingredients will be © enough 1 for a Bufhel of the 
whole. 
This teady, let thé Seeds be carefully fown 
upon it in two or three Pots, fiftitic over them 
a Straws-breadth of the fame Compoit. 
Set thefe Pots up to the Rim in a Bark-bed | 
of moderate Heat ; and refreth the Mould, if it 
grow dry, with frequent gentle Waterings. 
When the young Plants appear, water them alfo 
gently, and frequently. Pull up the weakett ; 
and leave only four or five in each Pot: here let 
them get fome Strength, and then prepare as 
many feparate Pots for their Reception. 
Fill thefe with the fame Compoft ; and place 
upright in each one of the Plants. 
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