SDE. 
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The Seyle rifes from a rounded Regdinfierit un- 
der the Receptacle of the Flower, which after-_ 
wards ripens into a roundifh Seed-veffel, with 
three Ridges; containing, in three Cells, nume- | 
rous round Seeds, with a {mall ApS 5 
and a columnar Receptacle. A Fe 
Culture of this Naxcissus. 
"We have faidiit is a Creature of the Gardener’s’ } 
Art; and the fame Management which firft raifed, 
mutt preferve, and may improve it, © 
The Seeds which ripen freely, fhould be Mn 
in the Manner we have directed for the other 
tant 
A COMPLEAT Soe eee — 
riety : fome Flowers will be larger, -others fmallers 
fome better coloured, others worfe ; 
will be fome double, or at the leat femi-double. 
Thefe mutt be feparated (the largeft and beft 
coloured, with the double and femi-double F “lowers) 
into a Bed by themfelves; the others planted 
to fupply Vacancies, and give Variety i in common 
Borders. 
From the Seeds of the femi-double there may 
} always be raifed perfectly double Flowers, and 
thefe, as well as the fineft of the fingle, may be 
_afterwards encreafed by .Off-fets. 
The Manner 
of doing it is in nothing particular : the whole 
Management muft be slic fame as in the other 
Phi he S: and the young . Plants treated ao the Narcifuss oe ee 2 ee 
sais: 
The Singularity of this Plant, ina its 5 aes 
Irregularity of Growth, have a Right to ftand in 
the Place of a more gaudy Beauty. The Ule of 
fuch in Collections is very proper and very great: 
they promote the Study’ of Rey and 1 mix Cu- 
-riofity with Elegance. 
The old Writers could not be acquainted with. | 
this, for it is native only of Countries difcovered 
- fince their Time: but moft who have written on 
the American Plants have named i if. | 
The Charaéters of Purflain are fo plainly. 
marked on it, that none have refered it to any 
other Genus, but they have defcribed it under va- 
rious Additions. PLruxenet calls it Portulaca 
lanuguiofa procumbens, vermiculat a foliis Americana; \- 
and CoMMELINE, Portulaca Curaffavica, angufto 
longo, lucidoque folio procumbens: Purflain :of Ca-— 
raffo, with long, fhining narrow Leaves.’ 
~Linnazvus, more accurate’ in his DiftinGions, | 
calls it Portulaca foliis fubulatis alterns, axillis pi- 
‘Alternate fubulate-leaved © 
lofts, floribus feffilibus : 
Purflain, with hairy Angles, and F lowers without — 
| = i" | decandria, 
Foottftalks. 
The Root is cmt of many tong, white 
|S lo)ocrae 
The Stalks are numerous, ek, eloity, Label | 
hairy, and thrown about in various Directions ; 
fome pea fome oblique, forme lying * on. the 
‘Ground. 
Their mee is naturally a pale oreen 5 but 
they are often ftained with purple. 
The’ Leaves ‘are numerous, and placed alter- 
ternately : they are long, narrow, fharp-pointed, 
of a pale but trefh and pleafing pretty and gloffy 
‘as the Stalks. 
The Flowers terminate the Stalks,- and: often 
yife alfo from the Bofoms of the Leaves, fome- 
times finely, fometimes two or three together. 
They are not large, but very confpictious from _ 
their Pofition and Colour; they ftick clofe by 
the Bafés to the Stalk, and they are “of a very 
delicate Crimfon. 
minate the Stalks, 
‘Leaves ; 
I 
there ftand eight or more 
Round about thofe which ter-) 
like the others in Form, but difpofed as - 
a fyi of a iy, ; al sie ae Bales of sets, 
and in the Angles made by the others with the 
Stalk, there is tually a light Cottony Matter. 
Each Flower has its Cup: this is fmall, formed 
of a fingle Piece, fplit- into two Parts, and com- 
prefled at the Top: it ftands upon the Rudiment 
of the Seed-veffel, and remains with it. 
The-Flower itfelf is compofed of five plain, 
erect, and obtufe Petals, and in the Midft ftand 
numerous’ fhort ‘capillary Filaments, with fimple 
Buttons. 
From the Rudiment of the Fruit rifes a fingle 
fhort Style, crown’d with a Head, ciivaeed to the 
Bafe into five Parts. 
‘The Seed-veffel 1 1S. oval, and the Seeds are nu- 
merous and {mall. 
The Number of: the Filaments -is properly 
June. @ 
and there. ———*S 
| twelve, but in this there is great .Wnceftainty, ~. 
ufually they are more. 
Divifions of the Head, appears very natural. 
Linn aus has. “however placed it among the Do- 
: and the fingle Style refers it to the 
firfk Divifion of that Clafs; the Monogynia, 
Culture of this PursLaIn, | 
ee is a Native: of South America, an’ Annual, 
and requires fome Care‘ in its Management : 
it deferves the Pains. The Flowers, tho’ {mall, are 
pretty, the Colour of the Petals is very fine, the 
Buttons are yellow, and the Heads of the Style 
purple; ; and there is’ therefore a pleafing Variety. 
The Seeds muft be faved when ripe, and in 
February fowed in a Pot of rich Garden- Mould, 
plunged to the Rim in a Bark-Bed. 
When the Plants. rife they mutt be thined, and 
afterwards two or‘ three of the faireft may be 
planted out‘into feparate Pots, which mutt be re- 
moved into the Stove, and there treated in com- 
but 
Fifteen is‘a‘very common -' -:: 
Number; and this being in a ternate Ratio to the , 
mon with other Plants, fuffering them to grow . 
their own Way; in which fome of the Branches 
will’ fall down, and cover the whole Pot. 
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