June. 
Mountain Crowfoot : 
cular, Ranunculus montanus aconiti folio albus flore 
NG) Ore. 
- COMPLE 
and C. BAvHINE in parti- 
Thefe were its Names in lie fimple State of 
the F lower ; ; and* though they have. not diftinely | 
named or defcribed this elegant double Plant, 
they all obferve that it js fometimes found with 
full Flowers. 
Thefe Writers too often name Varieties di-. 
ftinctly as Spas: but “tis an Error they have ; 
here avoided. 
Linn £vS, more diftingtive in ee Names of 
: the Species, calls this, Ranunculus foliis omnibus 
refers thefe as the other, to the proper original | 
Species; fo more allowing the Bignefs of a | 
Flower to conftitute a particular Kind, than 
_ tthe accidental Number of its Petals. i of 
quinatis lanceolatis incifo ferratis: Crowfoot with 
all the Leaves divided into five Parts, and thofe 
In this 
he refers to! the Plant in the fingle State of the 
lanceolate and deeply cut and notch’d. 
Flower, naming the double Form as a Variety. 
The Bauwines and others have divided the 
Plant, tho’ not from the Doublenefs, yet from |.” 
the Size of the Elower, into two imaginary Spe- 
cies. 
and leffer flower’d white Crowfoot : 
‘The Root. is compofed of numerous: “Cia 
fpreading Fibres, which rife as it were ifnme- | 
diately from the: Paks of the Salk; without any 
Head. — | 
" ftalks, and are of a deep but ‘elegant green. 
Pl. go. 
Fig. 5. 
They are divided to the Bafe into five Parts ; | 
and thefe are oblong, broadeft toward the Mid- 
dle, and fharp pointed; and they are deeply 
jagged, and notch’d at the Edges. 
The Stalk is round, thick, and GGringhid | 
ALT BODY 
comes properly under the Gardener’s Cognizance, 
‘They diftinguifh them by the Addition of | 
flore majore, and fore minore, the greater flower’d, 
Linnzuvs |- 
The firft Leaves are fopported on tng Foot- | 
The Botanift who defires to trace it to the 
proper Clafs, muft have recourfe as ufual to a 
fingle Flower. This he will find in all Refpects, 
except Colour, like thofe ‘of the common Crow- 
foot of our Meadows. It has its little Cup 
of ‘five Leaves: the Petals are five, and each 
has its hollow at the Bafe, the Nectarium of the 
Flower. ) i | 
The Filaments which are extreamly numerous, 
rife from the Receptacle, and furround a great 
Clufter of Rudiments of Seeds; each of which, 
tho’ deftitute of a Style, is crown’d with its pro- 
per Head. Thefe, which we have before ob- 
ferved ate the Characters of all the Crowfoots, 
refer that Genus to the Polyandrous Clafs, and under 
that Head to the laft Divifion, the Polyg ynia. 
st Culture of this Crowroor. 
tea Climate and Soil in which a Pe is na- 
Lee produced, are the Gardeners everlafting — 
Rule for its Culture. This fhews the Plant oe 
mention’d, can want little of his Labour. “What 
the Meadows of Germany produce, will fupport | 
itfelf with Eafe in the Gardens of England, and 
there will require no Compoft.. The common 
Mould will very well nourifh, and the parted 
Roots encreafe it. 
‘The Seeds in double Flowers rarely ripen well; 
the Root in this Plant encreafes freely ; ; and no 
farther Perfection can be expected in the Bloom, 
than perfeét Doublenefs and a true white. Thefe 
will be continued to it when the parted Roots are 
planted \ with tolerable Care; and all that it can 
require farther, will be at due Times a frefh 
Soil. | | 
The Way of managing: it a da 2 every Au- 
| tumn det the Roots be taken up, and planted a- 
two-Foot and a half high, of a pale whitifh green, 
and often ftain’d brownith. 
The Leaves on this are like ok from the | extended themfelves to a confiderable Bignefs, 
Root, only fmaller;, and they ftand irregularly, ; let them be parted; and toward the Seafon of 
and at Diftances. , their flowering, let them have frequent moderate 
The Flowers terminate the Branches, and are | Waterings. 
very numerous and-elegant: they are of a fhowy Let the Flowers be taken off as they fade, and 
Whitenefs ; and are compofed of numerous Series | new ones will be thus produced in Abundance ; 
of fmall, curled, and waved Petals. by this, with the Benefit of watering it, will 
This is the elegant State in which the Plant — flower all Summer. 
‘& SANGUINARIA.. 
We propofe here to ‘the Attention of the cu- 
‘ridus ‘Gardener, a. Plant fingular ‘enough, and not 
without Beauty ; ‘eafily raifed and ree Gee, and 
~ demanding ‘the ‘more Attention for its long ‘lower- 
ing. The old Atithors could not be. acquainted 
with it, for it is native only of America; and 
tho’ ‘very worthy 2 Place in all Gardens, it is 
“yet in a manner confined to thofe of the Cu- 
rious, | 
The firft in whofe Writings we find an Ac- 
count of it is Cornutus; and he, perplexed by } 
Genus to refer it. He called it a Chelidoninm 
majus; adding as its Diftinétion frorn the other 
of that Name, Canadenfe acaulon’: the great Ce- 
landine of Canada, without a Stalk. 
YIn this generical Name ‘Morrson ‘and ‘Ray 
concurred ; 
cies, unalter’d. 
Name (Celand? 
Manner under the 
3 that 
gain in a Bed of frefh Mould. When-they have 
its peculiar Afpect, fcarce could guefs to what 
and they copy’d alfo the diftinctive 
Terms by which that Author explain’d the Spe- 
Our laborious PaRKINSON ranks it in the fame 
ne, treating of 
June. 
