the Linna@jan Method, 
Their Structure demands the Student’s Atten- . 
‘tion. Each is plac’d in a fhort Cup, divided into 
two Lips. The upper Lip is flat, and nip’d 
lightly in three Parts at the Top. The lower 
is narrower, and lightly fplit i in two. One Petal 
forms the Body of the Flower, which is alfo 
biate and wide open. ~The tubular Part-at the 
Bafe is fhort: the upper Lip is large, broad, and 
ftands drooping: the under Lip is {maller, and 
- turn’d down ; 
which the middle one, which is broadeft, is dent- 
ed in the Midft, and ferrated. | 
Within the Body of the F dyer" are ee fF ila~ 
ments, two of thefe are fhorter than the others : 
bes es a ee 
Top; , and this Part runs in one Branch above the | 
With 
‘Button, which is inferted over the other. 
thefe rifes a fingle Style from a four-parted Rudi- | 
ment, which ripening afterwards, forms four di- 
ftinct Seeds, lodg’d- in the Cup, without a Cap- | 
fule. 
_ The Botanical Student ae learns the Cla n° : 
ph Se€tion of the Plant. The Didynamia, in 
comprehend all thofe 
Plants in whofe Flower two Filaments .are Tegu- 
larly longer than the others ; and the Subdivifion 
is into Gymnofpermia, thofe which have the Seeds 
naked in the Cup; and Angiofpermia,. fuch as 
have them in a Capfule. 
the Gymno/permia. : - 
7 
Culture of the VioLtztT SELFHEAL, © 
We have told in what Places this elegant Plant 
“thrives wild, and this the careful Gardener fhould 
make the Rule of his Conduct. © 
The Plant is to be rais’d from Seeds, and they 
fhould be obtain’d from Spain, or fome other 
warm European Climate. 7 
_ Let the Gardener fix upon a Piece of a Border — 
| ing up the Place with this Compoft: 
it is cut into three Segments, of | adding more, till it be rais’d to the Level of the 
This Plant is one of | 
open-to the South Sun, and defended by a Wall: March. 
Let him mix fome Sand, the coarfeft he can 
get, with frefh Pafture-Earth and old Cow-dung. 
A Bufhel of the Earth, and a Peck of each of 
the ae g will be a good Proportion. 
ete ig away the Mould -clofe under the 
“Wall, and-with the Point of a Trowel pick out 
fome of the Mortar from between the Bricks, fill- 
then 
Bed. 
Upon this Ground, and principally clofe to the 
Wall, Jet him in the Beginning of Auguft {catter 
the Seeds pretty thick. Let him faft over them a 
Straw’s Breadth of common Mould; this will 
keep the’ Seeds moitft till they thoot, ‘and will give 
the Part the Colour of the reft. 
dn September 1 the young Plants will appear, and 
they muft be weeded and left to Nature. The | 
Winter will kill fome;’ and in Spring the weaker 
of thofe which remain muft be pull’d up, the 
ftrongeft being left at a Foot Diftance. 
~ Some will have rooted by this Time into the 
Wall, and they will be the moft healthy. | 
‘Thefe will naturally flower the firft re ; 
and the next Year all. — : 
After this_no more Care need, be taken of the 
| Plant. 
Thofe igi which have run into the Wall: 
will live many Years; and the fcatter’d Seeds 
| will raife others in Places where Nature will pre- 
oa cReette them... | 
If they are not ‘permitted, to Seed, the Stalks 
being cut off as the Flowers fade, more will be 
-produc’d.in their Place, throughout a great Part 
of the Year; and their thick Tufts hanging about 
Bottoms of the Walls, where nothing elfe will 
grow; and where they will look too rich for 
Weeds, tho’ unlike all other Flowers, will give a 
very pleating Variety. 
Pl. gg. 
2. BLUE PYRENEAN ASTER. 
: 
This is a Plant familiar in the French Gardens, 
with Leaves ; aid at the Summit fpread out into 
Fig. 2. and wild upon the bleak Sides of the Pyrenean | a Number of Branches, all crowned with nume- 
Mouatains ; valuable for its erect and firm Afpect, 
the Number and the Luftre of its Flowers, and. 
‘We are accuftomed — 
for their early Appearance. 
to the Afers in great Variety in Autumn ; but the 
earlier Kinds have always an Air of Singularity. 
Rosinus brought this Species from its native 
Mountains into the Gardens of his Country: and_ 
Dopart nam/’d it there Afer Pyreneus precox 
flore cavuleo majore: Early Pyrenean After, with 
large blue Flowers. 
Morison has defcrib’d it alfo under the Name 
After precox flove ceruleo majori. The earlier 
Writers did not know it. 
The Root is long, whitifh, fpreading, and fur- 
nifhed with a Multitude of Fibres. 
The Stalk is firm, upright, robuft, and two 
Foot high: fingle all the Way up; well covered 
I 
rous Flowers. | 
The whole Plant is covered with a thick firm 
hairy Subftance. The Stalk is nde'd, and of a 
‘brownifh green. | 
~The Leaves are alfo of a biowh green, and 
they are plac’d alternately. They have no Foot- 
ftalk. They are oblong and dented at the Edges, 
~very hairy, and rough to the Touch. 
The Flowers terminate all the Branchings from 
the Top of the Stalk, and there rife many alfo 
on Side Shoots from the Bofoms of the Leaves, 
fo that the whole Clufter is of a round Jarge 
Expanfe, and. every Flower of great Beauty. 
They are of the compofite radiated Kind, -and the 
Rays are of a fine bright blue, the Difk gor 
yellow. 
The Rays are about thirty in Number , eheir 
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