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Pl. 40. 
Fig. 4. 
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, with brown, 
more hairy. 
. dent to the early Botanitts : 
~ in the fame Manner. 
OF 
in the common they are numerous, ten, twelve, | 
or more, and ftand near. 
_ Each Leaf in this Plant is bioccictiad of about’ 
three Pair of Pinne, with an odd one; arid thefe 
‘are oval, diftant, and fpread out flat: in the com-' 
mon Kind. there are in.each Leaf eight or ten: 
Pair of Pinne ; and they are oblong, -narrow, 
waved, placed clofe. to one ‘another, and of a 
ftrong green; they alfo ftand obliquely, not flat. — 
The Heiph: of this is about a Foot;,. that of 
the common two and a half. 
The Flowers terminate: the Stalk in a {mall 
GARDENING. 
-fhorter than the Flower, alittle bent, and crown’d 
with roundifh incumbent Buttons. 
In the Centre appears a Rudiment of an oval 
‘Form, from! which rifes a fingle Style longer 
than. the Filaments ; and creel with a Dace: 
Pa ted: Head, whofe Segments turn back. 
~The Seed-veftel which follows this Flower is of 
an oval Form, but mark’d with three Ridges; 
and contains: numerous Seeds. | 
The Clafs of the Plant is eafily read in this 
Flower : the five Filaments and fingle Style thew 
~it one of the Pentandria Monogyma of Linn mvs. 
loofe Tuft, and. other little Clufters rife on flight te 
Footftalks from the Bofoms of the upper Leaves. 
In the common Kind they are more. numerous, 
and the Tufts are thicker. . 
Their Colour in this.is a, faint, but. delicate 
oreyifh blue; in the common it is a deep blue, 
approaching to a violet purple. The Colour of 
the Buttons on the Filaments in this“is white : in 
the other they are of a Gold yellow, extreamly 
-confpicuous. The Petals in this Species are rounded 
| the: Species, 
at the Ends, in the common kind much lefs fo. 
With thefe Diftin@ions which Nature {trong- 
ly fhews, the Student will determine, tho’ againft 
~ ‘Lunn aus himéfelf, that it is a different Species. 
Fach Flower is placed on a Cup form’d of a 
fingle Piece, divided into five Segments, and ex- 
panded — at the Mouth. Thefe are of a pale 
green, and very delicate ; and they, have fcarce 
‘any perceptible Hairynefs. 
In the common Polemonium they are ting’d 
as the Stalk, and are firmer and 
The Flower itfelf is form’d Ca one Petal, ai. 
vided. into five large Segments, which open wide 
and elegantly. 
The tubular Part is fhorter than the Cup, and 
the opening is cover’d by five fmall and deli- 
cate Valves.» 
like a Weed: 
From thefe rife fo many F laments 
Calture of this PoLkMonivum. 
It is a Native of North America, and there- — 
fore requires little Care or Pains to raife it in 
our Gardens. It grows freely from Seed, and 
never alters its Form; which, if only a Variety, it 
would do: but the parted Roots grow fo eafily; 
and it encreafes this Way fo abundantly, that 
‘nothing but a Curiofity to try the Experiment of 
could lead any ore to be at that — 
Trouble. No Varieties are to be expected ; no 
Advantage from ‘fuch Culture: therefore all the 
Pains we advife the Gardener to beftow upon it 
473 
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June: 
is, to adapt a proper Soil, which fhould be equal | 
Parts of rich Meadow hank and Garden Mould, 
and to put this into fome Place where there will 
- be fhade from the Noon-day Sun. et 3 
In this let parted Roots be planted in Atitumn, 
and no farther Care will be needed. It will live 
if the Ground be now and then 
water’d about it, it will thrive the better; and 
at: Autumn’ the Stalks and Leaves may be cut 
down together, and fome frefh Mould drawn 
It will thus become: perfectly 
over the Stumps. 
vigorous, and a large Tuft of i it will give Variety 
in any Plantation. 
4. ‘DOUBLE WHITE cROWFOOT. 
- ‘What we have propofed to be done in ‘the 
oriental Meadow Crowfoot, and inftanced in the 
common creeping, and the common upright 
Kinds; the doubling of their feveral Flowers 
_ by Art, has been long done in this, and we owe 
to it one of the pi a Plants that decorate our 
_ Borders. 
- Nature firft shai it in “this *State’ by Acci- 
for what we at- 
chieve by Labour, and a delicate Application of 
our beft Knowledge, fhe often pours {pontaneoufly 
before us in her Wantonnefles upon the untilled 
Fields. : : 
We fee the Double. Ladyfmock, and Double 
Sneezewort in our ‘Meadows and Paftures ; ; and 
This elegant Plant which 
in the fingle State is common in the now defo- 
lated F i of Bohemia, fometimes courts the 
Attention even of the incurious by. its 
N? 40. 
F ullnefs cheval 7 
Thence it was. brought firft into Gardens: for 
we are not to fuppofe that what we find it now 
fo difficult to effect under the improved State. 
of Gardening, was familiar to thofe who prac- 
tifed the Art’ in the rude Days wherein we find 
| firft mention of it: but what they brought from 
Fields ‘into théir cultivated Ground, and were 
proved; and with due Induftry and Art can raife 
for ourfelves. ' 
Among the earlier Writers, all who had feeri 
the Plant were ftruck with his Beauty ; ; and to 
their Credit, they have all named it properly. 
Indeed the Characters of the Ranunculus Kind 
are too obvious to. be ‘overlook’d; or miftakeri 
_proud to preferve as they found it, we have im- 
eafily: they have called it, Ranunculus flore albo 
alpinus, and. Ranunculus -montanus maximus albus : 
rofy ' The white Alpine Crowfoot, and great white 
6 EF Moun- 
