DEN ING. 
March. under Part or Back is fomewhat’ paler than the . 
Baris 20. 
Fig. 3. 
OF GAR 
upper, and they fpread full out, and turn them- 
felves irregularly, fo as to fhew the Back in many 
Places. | : 
We have before told our Student, that in thefe 
compofite Kinds the {mall Flofcules which com- 
pofe the Difk, are fo many perfect Flowers, as 
the Rays are fo many imperfect ones, all colleéted | 
into a Head, furrounded by a Cup, and forming 
one general Flower. | 
In this the Cup is form’d of many Series of 
little leafy Scales, plac’d over one another; and 
the Points of the anterior ones are prominent. 
The Flofcules are numerous in the Difk, hol- 
low’d, wideft at the Mouth, and there divided 
into five Seements. 
The female Flowers are long, and are i rregularly : 
and uncertainly nick’d in three Places at the Top. 
Thefe have at their Bafe the Rudiment of the | 
Seed, covered with Hairs, and from it a fingle 
Style, with a fplit‘Top. They have no Fila- 
ments. 2 | ee 
In each of the others, which compofe the Difk, 
there are five Filaments, with convergent Buttons. 
The Duft from ¢hefe Buttons is deftin’d to im- 
pregnate the Rudiments of the Seeds in the Bafe 
of the Flowers at the Rim, where there are no 
male Organs or Filaments; but, befide thefe, 
there are alfo fome Rudiments of Seeds under the 
tubular Flofcules in the Difk, which alfo come to 
Maturity, tho’ not certainly or univerfally. 
We have before acquainted the Student with 
the Subdivifions of the Syngenefious Clafs: that 
this Plant belongs to that Tribe he will fee by the 
Coalefcence of the Buttons in the tubular Flof. March. 
cules; and as there are Seeds under thofé Flof. 
cules, as well as in the female ones on the Rim, 
he will perceive it is one of the Polygamia Super- 
jiua, the various Impregnation not being neceflary. 
Culture of this AsvER. 
The Plant requires a deep rich Mould: and 
tho’ it will live in almoft any Situation, yet the 
full Beauty of its Flowers, and their early Ap- ' 
pearance, depend upon an open Sun. No Hot: 
Bed is requir’d to raife, or Greenhoufe to preferve 
it: the worft of our Winters will not hurt it 
in open Ground. © ‘ag 
Let the Gardener fele& a warm and well de- 
fended Spot; and dig in among the Mould fome 
frefh Pafture-Earth. 
Seeds of the Plant are eafily procur’d ; and let 
him fow them in the Beginning of September. 
They will thoot freely, and the young Plants will 
ftand the Winter without Care. 
In Spring let them be clear’d from Weeds, and 
the weakeft pull’d up: let the others be left at 
_ ten Inches Diftance. ' Now and then let them be 
water’d, and fome of the ftrongeft of them will 
flower this Seafon. ; ) 
The Stalks muft be cut down, that the young 
Roots may not exhauft themfeélves in ripening 
Seeds ; and the next Seafon all will flower in great 
_ Beauty. 
They may be propagated, after this, by part- 
ing the Roots of old Plants in Autumn, but 
Seedlings are always better. 
3 EARLY SHRUB ANONIS. 
A very elegant Plant, . regular in Growth, 
rais’d with little Trouble; and valuable for the 
eatly Appearance of the Flowers, and for their 
Jong Continuance: | : 
The old Writers did not know it : but of late 
Time moft Have mentioned it. Morrson calls 
it Anonis purpurea verna frutefcens. —Dopart, 
Anonis purpurea frutefcens non {pinofa — and Lin- 
nus, Anonis floribus paniculatis, pedunculis [ubtri- 
 floris, firpulis vaginalibus, foliis ternatis: Ternate- 
leav’d Anonis, with clufter’d Flowers plac’d ufu- 
ally in Three’s, and with Films to the Bafe of the 
Leaves, furrounding their Stalks. oF 
The Root is brownifh, tender, and furnifhed 
with many long and ftrageling Fibres. 
The Stem is round, firm, and two Foot and” 
a half high; branched from the Bottom to the 
Top, and forming itfelf naturally into a hand- 
fome Shrub. REE ae 
The Bottom is often purplifh: the Branches 
are of a greyifh green; and they are flender, 
tough, and pliable. | 
The Leaves are plac’d at Diftances, in a wild 
and irregular but not unpleafing Manner, They 
rife three together ;_ but often there will be one or 
two Tufts of young ones in the Bofom of the 
| older, fo that the whole Clufter amounts to fix or 
nine. They are long, narrow, obtufe, and ele- 
gantly ferrated at the Edges. 
Their Colour is a fine frefh ereen, and. their 
Rib is often purplith: ufually there is no Foot- 
ftalk ; but on the lower Part of the Plant in fome 
Places there is a fhort one, fupporting the three 
Leaves, with a Film at the Bafe, bs ain option 
_ The Flowers are extremely. elegant; they are 
large, and are difpos’d in confiderable Tufts, 
| terminating all the Branches. Ufually three grow 
upon one Footftalk, and there willbe five or fix 
fuch at the Top of each Branch. aa 
_ Their Colour is.a lively Crimfon on the Out- 
fide ; within .they feem painted bya curious 
Hand, with Lines and Streaks of White ; and. 
the very Cup, from whofe Hollow they rife, ig 
redifh. | | 
_. The. Student, viewing all more) clofely, will 
find the Conftruétion very elegant and fingular. 
The 
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