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plac’d on flender Filaments. 
The Petals in the Flower are fix, and they are 
difpos’d in two Series, three in each: they ftand 
fully expanded ; and tho’ they want the rich Luftre 
of the double Kinds, have yet very confiderable 
Beauty. 
There is no Cup. The leafy Involucrum on 
the Stalk, tho’ fo remote, is of fome Service in 
the Defence of the Flower, and is all ‘Nature 
has given for that Purpofe. 
We have told the Botanical Student he is to 
trace thofe numerous Filaments, which appear in 
— the Centre of the Flower, to their Infertion, in 
order to know the Clafs of the Plant. “He will 
find them independent of the Petals ; and there is 
no Cup’ from whence they fhould proceed: they | 
grow from the Receptacle of the Flower; and 
the Plant is one of the Polyandria. 
fo many Rudiments of fucceeding Seeds : 
fhews it to be of that Order which comprehends 
the Polygynia. ‘sis | 
‘The Seeds follow in a naked Clufter. | 
Culture of this ANEMONE, 
It would be vain to give a Rule for raifing this 
par ticular Anemone. qt i is a 2 ferninal Variety of 
~at a Foot Diftance ; 
~ A -COMPLEAT BO.D-Y 
May. “Colour of the Erect bloody Red; and in the 
-——-~— Centre vary'd with a Number of yellow Buttons, | 
the common fine-leav’d Kind; and the Gardener. 
Plant, will find this among others. If he mifs 
once, he muft repeat the Sowing, and felect the 
Seed the next Time from a Flower that has a good 
+ red Colour. 
Thofe Seedlings, which, when hey Sewer, - 
fhew the true bloody Tinct, muft be planted out 
feparate ; and to the common Compoft, in which — 
‘we have order’d this Plant to be rais’d, there 
muft be added fome very old Cow-dung, in a 
larger than ordinary Quantity... They muft_be fet 
and every Year, when the 
Leaves are decay’d, they muft be taken up. in the 
_ufual Manner ; and, when planted again, it muft 
‘bei in frefh Ground of the fame Kind with the firft. 
This will preferve their Beauty in its full 
 Luftre ; and they muft be encreas’d only by 
parting of the Roots. The Seeds fav’d from the 
| fineft of them we thall dire@ to be fown; but they 
Among thefe rife many pointed Styles, from | 
this . 
are for another Purpofe: they will raife nobler 
FE lowers, and the Produce of the fame with that 
from whence the Seeds was fav’d, would be alto- 
gether uncertain: therefore let the Gardener, for 
this high ftain’d:fingle Flower, afford every Year 
a freth rich Bed of Compott, and part the Roots, 
when they are fo well encreas’d as to bear it:. 
Preferving the Flower in its original Luftre, for its 
own Sake, and for that of many Kinds to be 
rais’d from its Seeds. | 
row STAR OF BETHLEHEM. 
* Phis j is a very Mohit Plant, fo well adapted to 
-our Climate, that little Culture ferves to raife it ; 
and it has fo much of the Afpect we fee in thofe 
of our own Growth, that it gives a pleafing Variety 
among the nobler Kinds. 
Its Roots, when thrown by Chance out of Gar- 
is dens, will take their Growth fo freely among the 
: Grafs, or under the low Hedge, that it has been 
- efteem’d by fome a Native of our Country : this, | 
~ however, is an Error ; ; and ’tis not in thofe Places : 
, the Flower thews its true Beauty. 
‘The old Writers all have known it; they have 
— call’d -it Orinthogalum vulgare, Orinthog he ae 
dium, and Orinthogalum majus. Common is no 
Addition for this Diftin@tion; and the Judicious 
fee in this Inftance, how ill adapted Terms they are 
which only denote Bignefs. The fame Plant may 
be, as this is, large in Compari ifon of fome Spe- 
cies of the fame Genus, fmall to others, and in 
the general of a middling Size. : 
Linn.zvs names it after diate Manner, -Q- 
_rintbogalum floribus corymbofis, pedunculis fcapa 
alticribus, flamentis emarginatis : Corymbofe-flow- 
er’d Orinthogalum, with Footftalks rifing above 
the main Stem, “and with nip’d Filaments. A 
Name. diftinguithing, the Plant. from all others, 
and conveying a Defcription. 7 | 
'. Some have call’d it Umbellate Star of Bethlehem: 
- it is the fame Meaning thefe would convey, that 
| umbellate is amifs : 
“Linn zusgives intheTerm corymbo/e; but the Word 
the Elowers-of this Kind crow 
in fhort Tufts or.Clufters, not-in long Spikes, as 
thofe of many others of the fame Name; but 
thefe Tufts are not .Umbels, for the F naitlles 
rife one above another, not Geom the fame Point. 
The Root is a Bulb, fomewhat oblong, of 4 
bistecith Tafte. Ufually there are three or vir 
{maller Bulbs about the principal, for. the Plant 
propagates itfelf this Way abundantly; and from 
the Bafe run many thick white F ibres. 
The Leaves are numerous, and in. ecole 
not deftitute of Beauty : they are long, narrow, 
obtufe, a nd of a firm and fomewhat flefhy Sub- 
{tance : they fpread themfelves in various Forms, 
| upright, procumbent, ftraie, bent, and drooping. 
Their Colour is a moft perfect and {trong green ; 
and along the Middle of each runs a Sai 
Line of milky white. 
Among thefe rifes the Stalk, more upright than 
the Ligayes: but not exceeding them in Length : 
it is fix or feven Inches high, round, firm, erett; 
| whitifh toward the Geautid. elfewhere of a pale 
and pleafing green. 
The Flowers crown it in a confiderable Clufter, 
each plac’d upon its feparate, long, and flender 
Footftalk, and the uppermoft of thefe rifes cons 
 fiderably above the Top of the Stem. There are 
ng 
May. 
who fows the Seeds from a good Flower of that. -——— 
