_ May. 
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, ter Kind, and has ow’d to mere Luxuriance’ its 
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Culture: but their Store is not exhaufted; nor 
fhall we want of this the Fritil/ary, or other Kinds, 
fome elegant Flowers, that, blowing later than 
_ the ufual Time, mix almoft Spring with Summer, 
and fhew their painted Heads among thofe’ of ats : 
together different Nature. 
The prefent Tulip is an Inftance : feral ina 
very ftriking Quality, the Number of Flowers:on 
the fame Stalk, and. from: its later than. ufual 
‘Time of Blowing diftinguifh’d among the com- 
mon Wniters by a peculiar Naine. 
Two original Kinds, we have told the Student, 
furnifh all the Variety of our Florift’s Tulips, the 
one diftinguifh’d by a drooping, the other by.an 
This is of the Progeny of the Jat- 
firft numerous Flowers, which it preferves always 
when propagated by Off-fets; but does not certain- 
ly afford from Sowing. 
This is the great Diftinétion between Species 
and Varieties; and this fhews the prefent Plant, 
with all its Singularity, to come only under the 
latter Affortment. 
-Thofe who wrote early -on Flowers, | ‘were 
Numb. XXXVI. 
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X Y E have given, in a preceding Nuinber; 
~ a general Account of the Tulip Kind, | 
and many elegant Varieties rifing from 
‘atntenated with this 5. and chevy fied natn’d. it, 
from the Time of its Blowing, 
Tulipa feretina,; and- from. this Divifion of» the 
Stalle for the Support of numerous Flowers, Tx. 
‘Upa, ramofay. and Tulipa.polyclonos , Terms'exprefs- 
ing’'in the-two Languages, the branched Tulip,: 
—Ciusius,. who defcribes this Kind in the com- 
mon Condition jof bearing a fingle F lower, under- 
ftands it as diftin& in etek and naming the clu: 
fter’d Number,: confiders that as a Variety. :.The 
Student in‘Linn 2us’s Method, is to confider it'ag 
one of the Ge/uerian Tulips, diftinguith’d by that . 
Author, under. the Name 7; ulipa flore: eretio foliis 
| ovato-lanceolatis. 
The Root is di, large and avis coed 
with. a deep brown Skin,. and hting with mbt? 
Fibres. ' | y 
. The Leaves are numerous, paved are greyifh; — 
way'd at the Edges; and pointed at the End; 
The larger lie on the Ground, but-there are feve: 
ral of the fame Form: upon the Stalk... 
This -is two Foot and a_ half high, round; 
firm, ‘pale, toward the Top divided into -feveral 
Branches, and. covered with a greyifh Hoary, 
| nefs, 
The Leaves are plae? d alternate on the Stem, 
and’ at the Top of | every Branch ftands one vaft 
BP. Flower ; 
May: 
the: late ‘Tulip, ——= 
