OF 
April. lower Part of each Petal runs an obvious Line, 
the Nectarium of the Flower. 2 
The Colour varies in the different Parts of the 
Petals; they are of a bright gold yellow at the 
Bafe, of a firey redifh yellow in the other Part, 
and in the Middle fpotted in a wild but elegant 
Manner with a deep purple. 
The Ribs and Hollows are moft plain 
in the three broader Petals; the other three are 
narrower, and have them not in any Degree fo 
conf{picuous. | 
_ Inthis, as in the other Lillies, the Parts of 
Fructification are very apparent. | 
The Filaments are fix, long, flender, plac’d 
GARDENING. 
~~ Culture of this Lituy. 
It is a Native of many Parts of America, and 
lives there in a light mellow Soil, where it is not 
too much expos’d ‘to Cold. This muft be our 
Rule for its Culture. } 
Let a Compoft be thus made for it. 
Take a Bufhel of fine Meadow-Earth, half a 
Bufhel of Pond-Mud, a Peck of Cow-dung well 
rotted, and the fame Quantity of Wood-Pile 
Earth : mix in a little Wood-Soot, and throw all 
up to the Weather. {ES 
Let a Border be fill’d with this in a warm and 
near to one another, upright, and crown’d with. well fhelter’d Part of the Garden, and there 
large purplith Buttons, 
_ The Style is fingle, and of a flefhy red; it is 
confpicuous among the Filaments, and beautifully 
diverfifies the Flower. It rifes from an oblong 
‘Rudiment, with fix Ridges, and is crown’d with 
a large Head or Stigma, of a triangular Fi- 
gure. 7 | 
_. The Seed-veffel is divided into three Cells, and 
‘is fill’d with large Seeds in a double Series. 
The fix Filaments and fingle Style. in this. 
Flower refer the Plant obvioufly to the Hlenandria 
Monogynia of Linnmus, the fixth of that Au- 
thor’s Claffles, and its firft Seétion. career 
plant Off-fets of the Roots, if they can be ob- 
tain’d conveniently: but to have the Plant in 
Perfection, the Seeds fhould be procur’d from 4- 
merica. ‘Thefe muft be. fown in Boxes in the 
fame Compoft ; and when the Roots have fome 
Bignefs, they muft be planted out into fuch a 
Border spi? adi bee 
Seeds from good Flowers of our own will an- 
fwer very well, but the beft Flowers are rais’d 
from thofe ripen’d in America. The F lowers from 
thefe have the true firey Orange in the Body, and 
they have Spots of the fineft deep Violet, nearly 
black. igo ee 
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4 QUADRIFOLIATE BIGNONIA. 
Pl. 32. _ This is a very {pecious and noble Plant, Native 
Fig, 4. Of the American Wands ; and will acquire in our 
‘Gardens, even with moderate Care, an equal 
Perfection to what it fhews in thofe Places. 
All who have written on the Plants of that 
_ Part of the World, have fpoken of it, though 
_ under various INAS cee | aes 7 
 Dovart and Prumter have call’d it Clematis. 
—Our PLuxener adopts alfo that Name. The 
Englifo Suoanz, who wrote before Botany at- 
_tain’d any Part of its prefent Perfe@tion, call’d it. 
Gelfeminum hederacum tetraphyllum. Tournerort 
calls it Bignonia, and that Name Linnaus alfo. 
adopts for the Genus ; adding, as the Diftin@tion 
of the Species, foliis conjugatis cirrha brevifimo 
arcuato tripartite: Conjugate - leav’d Bignonia, 
with fhort Tendrils, divided into three Parts. _ 
The Root is long, thick, and black on the 
Outfice, furnithed with many Fibres, and of a. 
difagreeable bitter Tafte. 
The Stalk is very long but weak, and unable 
* to fupport itfelf; Nature has therefore given it | green, but the Segments ting’d with yellow. — 
Tendrils wherewith to climb, form’d‘in a peculiar 
‘Manner for laying hold of every thing that comes | 
an its Reach: they are long, flender, curl’d, di- 
vided into three Parts, and thefe often again fub- 
divided into Portions fcarce thicker than Hairs. 
The:Stalks themfelves are redifh, fmooth and 
tough: they naturally wind about any thing that 
is able to fupport them; and that Way, and by 
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the Affiftance of thefe Tendrils, keep themfelves — 
up to a vaft Height, covering, 
rifh beft, ‘Trees and Buthes. 
The Leaves are oblong, broad, and not unlike 
thofe of the Laurel, but they have a kind of Ap- | 
pendage or Ear at the Bafe. They rife in regu- 
where they flou- 
| lar Number, four from each Joint ; and they 
are fupported on a ‘divided Footftalk, of ‘an 
Inch long, from thé Centre of whofe Divifion 
rifes alfo the three-parted Tendril. ~ a 
. Their Colour is an elegant green, paler on the | 
under than on the’ upper Side, and rib’d with 
purplith Veins. eo a 
~The Flowers are large and elegant, they rife 
from the fame Part with the Leaves, ufually two 
from each Joint; and in the full Blow they thus 
cover the Plant, and afford a very rich A ppear- 
ance. ‘They are two Inches in Length, and their 
‘Colour is a rich Orange Scarlet, ’ 
Each has its Cup, finall, hollow, and ‘cut‘into 
five Divifions at the Edge. The lower Part iS 
The Flower itfelf is form’d of one vatt Petal, 
long, hollow, | and gaping at the Mouth. ‘Tts 
Bafe is fmall and tubular, and is lodg’d within 
the Cup. The Body of the Flower is very lorie 
belly’d, and open. The Divifions at the Rim are 
five ;‘ two of the Segments which ftand uppermoft 
turn back, the three others expand themfelyes - 
below. 2 
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