— eo A. COMPLEAT-BODY. ee 
| | 
April. conneéts all the Parts of one Fruttification, and the Seed-veflels, whence ‘rife the Styles, and they “April. 
——— thofe of one only: in the compofite Flowers it is | are inferted. with them on the’ Receptacle, not ~~ 
otherwite. Having thus explain’d it in the fix’d to the Petals. ; 
_ plain and fimple State, we fhall refer hither when Each has its fhort and very flender F SoHtaNe 
treating of it in the more complex Form. the Bafe fix’d immediately on this is roundifh,. 
To this plain Receptacle the Student follows thence the Neétarium rifes tubular; and widens to 
- down ‘the Filaments of this Hellebore Flower; | the Top. ' The. little Footftalk is whitifh, eee 
here he finds them all inferted; this he knows to | Body of the Nectarium ‘is of a fine preen,:and 
be the Receptacle, and he is affur’d the Plant i is | the Tip of each'Lip is yellow. 
- of the Polyandrous, not of the Icofandrous Clafs. | ‘This is the perfect Structure of the- Hellebore 
We have never had fo fair an Opportunity of | Flower, in which the Student will read diftinétly te 
explaining this before; therefore fhall add, that in | large Leffon of the Science. The Seed- -veflels which | 
this Manner he is to trace the Filaments, when | follow are equa] to the Styles in Number, and 
numerous, in all other Flowers, and thus to de- | each contains numerous roundith Seeds, fix’d to 
termine of them. the Suture of the two hollow’d Parts of the -- 
The Polyandrous Clafs is large, and the Plants | /Capfule. | 
refer’d to it by the Origination of their numerous | | 
Filaments, are fubdivided, according to the Num- | - 
ber of their Styles: -the firft SeCtion comprehends |» 
thofe which have one Style only ; the fecond, thofe ‘ We have faid the Plant ‘is native of the ohidee 
which have two; the third, fuch as have three | Climates : it thrives’ beft on a hilly Situation, 
the fourth, four; fifth, five; fixth, fix; and the | 
where the Soil is firm and not too poor; and Mod 
feventh fuch as have more than that Number. little Trouble is requir’d in its Culture. 
Our Student counts thofe horned Tops which | Let a Border be fix’d upon that which has the 
rife from the Rudiments, which he knows ‘to be | : Morning Sun, but no more : leta Mixture of equal 
the Styles : he finds in this F lower eight of them ; Parts, Pond-Mud'and loamy Pafture- Earth, be 
and he knows therefore the Plant is one of the put into this; and in the: Beginning of May, . 
| Polygynia. | when the. Plant has ripen’d its Seeds, let the 
He has examin’d and he underftands the Pe- | Roots be parted, and planted out at eighteen, 
tals, Filaments, and Styles of this Flower, and | Inches Diftance. Fe 
Culture of the Buack Hextiezorg. 
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he has found its Clafs; but there remain yet thofe 
‘fingular hollow Bodies furrounding the Filaments. 
He knows that when he finds a Part in any 
Flower, diftinét from Petals, Filaments, and Style, 
this is the Ne¢tarium of that Flower. . 
The prefent Subject of Enquiry is fuch: each 
of thefe hollow Bodies is a Nectarium, and each 
is divided into two Lips ; the outer one of which’ 
is large and hollow, the inner one fmall: their 
whole Number in the Flower is about thirteen, 
but this is not invariable. They furround, in a: 
regular Circle, the Filaments and Rudiments of 
After this, "they will only require to be kept 
free from: ‘eeds and water’d at Times, and they 
will flower t ae fucceeding Seafon. 
The Propagation is fo faft this Way, that 
| there is no Need of raifing the Plant from Seeds ; - 
nor is there any great Advantage i in the Beauty Of is 
‘ the F lower to be expected. that Way ; but-if afip' 
defire to follow that. Method, it is very eafy: 
the Seeds’ fhould be fown, in the Beginning of 
| ‘Auguft, in fuch a Soil and Situation as we have 
diretted, a Shey will {trike freely. 
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6, CRIMSON ERYTHRONIUM. 
The Garden, at this early Seafon, affords fei 
Fig. 6. Plants more elegant, or,. for the Bignefs, more 
confpicuous ty this. 
ters on Plants ; 
habitant: its eafy Culture join’d with its early 
Beauty in recommending it to this univerfal No- 
tice ;_ but it was firft known by a vety inexpreffive 
Name, Dens Canis, Dog’s Tooth. Our Gardeners 
caught the Senfe of this, and added the Name 
order, referri ing it to a Genus altogether - di- 
ftinét. cept 
Some among the Authors of Credit have alfo 
call’d it a Satyrium, confounding it among that 
very diftinct Clafs the Orchis’s, 
LINN AUS names 
; | | 
Its Beauty and Singularity : 
recommended it to early Notice among the Wri- | 
: 5 and our firft Hiftories that name: 
Englifh Gases, {peak of it as an eftablith’d In- 
it Debi oniui and all the late Writers follow 
him. | u 
“'Thofe who caught every flight Diftin@tion in 
Appearance, and were fond of raifing thence new 
Species, have diftinguith’d feveral Kinds of this ; 
the longer and the rounder leav’d, the wifes 
flower’d, and the red ; but later Botany, refering 
| all thefe to the one original Kind, admits no Ad- 
dition to the Name, but calls it fimply Erytbro- 
nium. : 
We haves figur’d that Viste with Crimfon 
Flowers, as beft worthy the Gardeners Attention, 
' | and beft anfwering the Name; but he who fows the 
Seeds of this, will have white Flowers ainong 
them. 
The whole Plant is elegant, tho’ {mall the 
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