OF GARDENING. 
Fig. 2. under our Hedges ; ; which, if lefs common, : 
would not be feen without Wonder : for Nature | 
But with all | 
fcarce affords 4 more fingular Genus. 
have flower’d. three Seafons, Seeds muft be fav’d April. 
: April. Square, and then feparate the Roots from the 
Mould in the Boxes, picking them out by Hand, ‘from: them; and fown in the fame Manner. The 
not fifting the Mould, as may be done in fome | firft Crop will exceed the common Flowers of this 
Cas. * | . ‘ Kind; but the Produce of the beft among thefe 
Set one Root, in the Centre of each Square, | will exceed the Gardener’s warmeft Expeéta- 
; tpright and fteady; and when all are plac’d, | tions. 
fift over them fome of the remaining Compott ; Once in three Years the Roots Mould be taken 
fet them be cover’d two Inches above the Top, | up, but they tuft foon be planted again, for 
dnd leave them thus to Nature. Weeding and | they are fpoil’d by the Air. This taking up is 
Watering are all they require further. for removing the Off-fets, and réfrefhing the Bed 
The remaining Compoft muft be faved to fift | with new = and that fhould be made as 
éver them, a Quarter of an Inch at a Time, in | the firft. 
Atittimn ; to defend them from Froft, add’ in It is remarkable in this Plant, that the Colours 
Spring, before their fhooting. The third Year | in its Flower afe in a Manner invariable’ in their , 
they will flower; and there will be found a glo- | Place and Dye; but the Improvement is furprizing, 
rious Variety. ) which from eee Management — admit in 
orn fineft muft be mark’d; ; and when they | Luftre, © | 
4° TRIE OL 1 A:T.EB.. A RUM, 
Pl. 32. | We are accuftom’d to a Plant of this Kind | ternatis : Ternate-leav’d Aum; with no tifing® 
| Stalk. | : | | 
The round Body, which j in this, as in the com- 
mon Arum, rifes a little from the Ground, and 
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the Peculiarity of the common Kind, this, which gives a firm Bafe to the Leaves’ and Flower, is 
is only to be found where curious Induftry has “not to be call’d a Stalk: this has no other; and 
pare it, has great Beauty. the Term acaulous is needful to diftinguith it from 
Our Encouragers of Botany have it from the ‘the Dracontium, which Linnavus ranks in the 
World, whence it alfo came early into “fame Genus. 
nai : -f ©The Root is roundifh, foft, of the Bignefs of 
Europe after the firft Settlements; and thofe Au- 
thors who have written fince that Time do not 
fail to name it. 
‘In Caspar Baunine we read of it under the | 
Name of Dracunculus five Serpentaria triphylla 
Virginiana ; and under this Name kA A has 
figur’d it. 4 
The Characters of the Arum are too ‘ftrong 
imprefs'd upon it to be overlook’d, and all ae 
have given it under that Title, tho’ with various 
Additions. 
Morison ‘has deferib’d j it by the Name of Mise | 
pene viridd ; and PLUKENET of Arum triphyllum | 
pene atro rubente: they faw the Plant from colder | 
Parts of America, and fuppos’d it different from 
the original Kind firft fhewn us from the Brazils ; 
but the Variation is flight, and no more fathetent 
to make a Diftinction of Speciés than the green 
Club in Mortson’s Plant, or déep red one in 
that of PLukENET; no more than the red and 
white we fee in the common Arum of our 
Hedges. 
Linnzvs, to‘;whom the World of Science is 
indebted greatly for his Reduétion of imagin’d 
Species, merits that Praife in this as ftrongly as 
in any Inftance.. 
He juftly deteraiines from the perfect Samenefs 
in the more effential Parts, that the Difference in. 
Leaves between the Brafilian and Vi irginian Plants 
is only accidental ; and refering both to one Spe- 
cles, adds, . as its diftinétive Title, acaule foliis 
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a Filberd, and covered with a pale brown Skin. 
From its Top fpread many Fibres. : = 
The whole Plant confifts of two Leaves, rare- 
ly more, and its Flower; which all rife together 
from the Head of the Root, envelop’d with a 
thick Film; and before that opens to let the 
Footftalks of the Leaves {pread, the whole forms 
| a round Stem. ‘The Membrane is whitifh toward 
the Ground, greener upwards, and {potted with As 
wild Irregularity with red. 
The Leaves have long F ootftalks, and. thefe, 
with their hollow filmy. ‘Bopeoinis are alfo of 4 
; me ereen fpotted with Crimfon: : 
Each Leaf is compos’d of three Parts, oblong, | 
io wav’d and pointed. The Colour is es 
greyifh green; but thé Veins, which are extremely. 
confpicuous, are red. 
Between the Footftalks of thie Leaves rifes that 
of the Flower, {potted as the reft, but lef {. 
The Flower itfelf is of that {trange wild and 
irregular Form, which diferaces all Syftems i in the 
common Arum. It confitts of a creat oblong | 
hollow Scabbard, containing the Parts of the 
Fructification in its defended Bafé, with the 
rifing Club, which thofe Authors we quoted 
before, have idly call’d Penis; and nothing 
| of the Nature of the Corolla, or colour’d Part of 
a Flower. 
The Scabbard is extremely beautiful in this 
Plant 5° it-is very” large, “open, and irregular at 
the Tops and Edges, Its Ground Colour on the’ 
Out- 
