Pl. ar. 
Fig. 4. 
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Pi. 4%. 
Fig. s. 
frefh Compott. 
A COMPLEAT BOD: ¥ 
Leaves are decayed; and the Off-fets being fepa- 
rated, the old Roots muft be planted again in 
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The Off-fets will be {mall, and they fhould i 
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The Botanical Writers have not beet Jong ac- 
quainted with. this Plant; nor have thofe who firft 
met with it well underftood its Characters. “Till | 
Linnus, none found its proper Genus : it ha: 
been refered by almoft every Author who named op 
it, to a different one. . | 
BoERHAAVE and BurMAN call i it an 3 Aiea and > 
Chriftapboriana: CCOMMELINE, an Aithiopian Ra- | 
nunculus, and our Puukenet, an Imperatorza. 
So much Refemblance_ of the Crowfoot Kind thofe | t 
alfo diftinguifhed in it, who called it by the moft 
foreign Generical Names, that they in general added 
Ranunculoides.. 
LINNAUS, who refers it to the proper Fea | da 
Adonis, adds, as its Diftinétion, from the others, 
fruétibus depreffis, foliis duplicato ternatis, ovatis | 
ferratis : | 
oval and ferrated, and with deprefled Fruit. — 
‘The Root is. compofed of numerous white Fi i- 
bres, conneéted to a finalhHfead, © 
The firft Leaves are noel on long firm 
whitifh Footftalks, and each is. compofed of three 
Parts, each Part of three lefler Leaves, or fome- 
times more than that Number. 
The natural Divifion of the Footftalk is thus into 
three Parts, and the natural Number of Leaves on 
each of thefé’is three; but fometimes there are 
five, and fometimes they are in the whole fewer ; 
the two Side Divifions having only two Leaves, 
and the middle one three. Thus the whole radi- | 
cal Leaf, when_ perfect, confifts of nine fmaller 
Leaves ; when. imperfect, of feven; and when re- 
dundant, of thirteen, In either Cafe it is very : 
_handfome. | 
The feparate Leaves are f: a firm SAbftance, 
of an oval Figure, notched irregularly at the 
Edges, and of a blackith green. : 
The Stalk is round, firm, branched, and eight 
Inches high. The larger Leaves toward the ae 
ee 
ae. 
cidents of. 
Adonis, with duplicately ternate Leayess, | 
-F lower ; 
“B® THIOPIAN: ADONIS. 
fame dark green with thofe from the Root; on 
the upper Part of the Stalk and on the. Branches, 
they are irregularly placed, and narrow. , . 
ghey Flowers terminate. all the Branches, in 
large Numbers, and they are of a faint id af 
with a Tinge of greenifh. — 
“The Che is compofed of five litle ovat ‘hol: 
lowed, and. fading Leaves, . cof a yellowith Colour. 
The Bods of ria: Flower is formed of an uncer- 
f from five to fifteen, ac- 
oe of the Plant, and various Ac- 
th : they. are -obtufe, - and ftand 
oan to tl 
“and in 1 the Middle of theft. a Other of 3 
8 of Seeds : _thefe have no oie but 
bed 
The Filaments rife from the Receptacle of the 
and this, with their Number, fhews the 
Plant tobe one of the Polyandria : the nume- 
rous Rudiments refer it alfo to the Polygynia, the 
laft Subdivifion under that general Head. 
Culture of this Aponts. 
It is a Native. af the warmeft Parts of Africa, 
and with us cannot bé raifed but by the Affiftance. 
of artificial Heat. The Seeds muft be. fown in 
February, in a Pot of common Garden-Mould, 
and. raifed in a Bark Bed, with thofe of okhiee 
Plants of the fame warm Countries. 
Two ‘or three of the ftrongeft muft be faved, 
and planted out in feparate Pots, and’ after- 
wards brought into the Stove. — 
. The Method we have delivered before; and the 
Trouble is little, when we confider that nothing 
is done particularly for thefe Plants, but they are 
raifed in common among others of more Beauty 
and Value 
Part of this are Saeed in Three’s, and are of the 7 A A 
gs GREY STARRY HYACINTH. 
The Gardener has been told, on a preceding 
Occafion, that the Starry Hyacinths are properly 
of the Squil Kind. When we have acquainted: 
him that the common Names of this Species are, | 
Hyacinthus ftellaris flore cineritio, and Hyacinthus 
fellaris multiflorus cineritius, -we are to add, 
that Linnus refering it to its proper Head, 
Scilla, adds, as the Character of the Species, ra- 
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2 ee ene men ere 
dice folida, corymbo conferto hemifpherico: Solid- 
rooted Squil, with a cluftered and rounded Head 
of Flowers. | 
The Root is roundifh and white, ‘and is hung 
with many Fibres at the Bafe. 
The Leaves are numerous, long, moderately 
broad, ftriated, and of a faint green. 
The Stalk is round, thick, of a 
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pale green, 
and 
June. 
planted one Year in a Nurlery Bed,’ and after that === 
be diftributed 1 in various Parts of the Garden. 
