March. 
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Pl. 29. 
Fig. 4. 
_ phalum, Dragon’s-head ; 
The Cup is hollow, form’d ‘oF one Piece, and 
which turn upwards. 
The Flower is_ regularly papilionaceous, and 
is compos’d of four unequal Petals. ‘The Vexillum. 
is large, of an oval heart-like Form, and de- 
prefs’d at, the Sides: the Ale are oval, and half 
as long as this: the Carina is pointed, and ee 
than the Alz. 
In the Body of the Flower are lodg’d ten Fi- 
Jaments ; nine of them coalefce for a great Part 
of their Length, and there is a Tenth naturally | 
loofe ; but fometimes this will be united alfo 
with them: the Ends are free, and are turn’d up, 
and they have {mall Buttons.. 
The Style is fingle, and terminated bya tomad- 
ith {mall Head. 
The Seed-veffel is a fhort hairy Pod, in wah 
- are a few Kidney-fhap’d Seeds. 
The Coalefcence of nine among thefe Fila- 
ments, and the one remaining fingle, fhews the 
Plant to be one of the Diadelphia Decandria, the 
Clafs and Section of moft papilionaceous Plants. 
Culture of this ANONIS. 
‘Tre is a Native of the Southern Parts of. 
France, and of fome other European Provinces. 
With us it requires no peculiar Care or Defence : 
the open Ground will preferve it; and being once 
rooted, it will endure many Years, and be every. 
-Seafon ftronger, and better furnifh’d with Bloom. 
It fhould be rais’d from Seeds, and the Soil 
fhould be fuch as Nature fhews it beft loves. | 
In France it flourifhes beft wild, in high and 
barren Grounds, where there is Depth of Mould. 
Its long Fibres fpread far, and pierce deep, fo 
a 
up the weakeit Plants ; 
that they find Refources of Nourithment, where 
the Eye fees only Barrennels. 
_ Let the Gardener fix upon a dry warm Spot in 
his Ground, and take out the Mould Three~fpade 
deep. Let him throw into the Place fome dry 
Pafture Earth, mix’d with a little Soot, and a 
good Quantity of old Cow- dung. 
Let him cover this an Inch with the common 
| Mould of the Border; and upon that Surface 
{catter fome of the Seeds; in the third Week in 
September. cS | 
Let thefe be covered with a Straw’s Breadth of 
fine Mould fifted over them ; and let him throw 
a few Bufhes over the Ground, to —< off Acci- 
dents. | 
When the young Plants appear, free them 
from Weeds, and give them in a Morning, once 
in four Days, a gentle Watering. 
In Spring thin them to a Foot Diftance, taking 
and after this weed them 
carefully; break the Earth boldly between them 
with a Trowel, for they root deep ; and ‘every 
other Day give them a gentle Watering. Take 
_off the lower Side Shoots, to train them with a 
little Stem; and they will rife to their due 
vines le the firft Seafon, and flower oe 
| roufly. 
Let none ftand this Year for Séed. Take 
_ off the Heads as the Flowers fade, and the Plants 
will by this Means. continue flowering three or 
four Months. Gardeners think this exhaufts the. 
Roots, but they err: ’tis ripening of Seeds that 
weakens this Kind of Plants, not the moft pro- 
+ _fufe flowering. 
The Plant thus eftablifhed in the Ground will 
require no more Care: but it will every Year be 
more beautiful. 
4. SPIKED DRACOCEPHALUM. 
This is a very fingular and very beautiful 
Plant, Native of America, and thence unknown 
to the earlier Writers; but by the later, in gene- 
ral, celebrated highly, tho’ under various Names. 
BaARRELIERE has call’d it a Lyfimachia; DoparT 
a Digitais. Bocconet, who faw its Refemblance 
to the Digitalis, but faw with it an effential Dif- 
ference alfo, nam’d it P/eudo-Digitalis. 
Linnvs, banifhing with Reafon all thefe ba- 
{tard Names, adopts for the Genus the Name 
given it by Breynius and Morison, Dracoce- 
and adds, as the Di- 
ftin&tion of this Species, floribus Jpicatis, foliis 
lanceolatis ferratis: Spiked Dracocepbalum, with 
lanceolated and ferrated Leaves. 
The Student will remember that we have de- 
{crib’d already one of thefe Dracocepbala, the 
Plant call’d Cedronella, and by the vulgar Gar- 
The Root is compos’d of numerous long thick 
white Fibres, connected to a little Head. 
_ The Stalk is upright, undivided, flender, but 
firm, and more than a Yard hich. Its Colour 
toward the Ground is Crimfon, upward a pale 
Green, but ftain’d with fome Remains of the 
Ground Tinét ; and it is ftriated and ridged. 
-. The Leaves rife at the Joints, two from each ; 
‘thefe Joints ftand diftiné, and give the Plant a 
fine free Air. 
The Leaves are of the Length of a Man’s 
Finger, and not more than equal to it in Breadth. 
elegantly ferrated along the Edge, and terminate 
in a long flender Point. 
The Flowers are very numerous, they terminate 
the Stalk in a long Series; with feveral Side 
dener, Balm of Gilead.. The tufted F loch of | Shoots from the lower Part of this main Spike 
that Plant, fhew the Occafion of receiving the 
fpiked F orm of thefe into the diftin@tive Name. 
all covered with Flowers, large enough to be fingly 
} confpicuous and beautiful. They are "longs hollow, 
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