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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfeétion: 
r ROSEBAY WILLOW HERB 
Times joined them together, ranges this and the July: 
HE Garden does not afford a Plant 
July. more fpecious and elegant than this, | other podded Species feparately under the Name Saceaaes 
Pl. 423 although it be a Native of our own | Epilobium: he adds as the Diftin@ion of this, foliis 
Fig. 1. Country. It is not fo common wild as to put | /parfis lineari-lanceolatis : Epilobium with {cattered; . 
the Vulgar in mind of calling it a Weed in Gar- 
dens; and thofe who have Judgment, defpife the 
little Prejudices which reprefent every Thing as. 
mean that comes eafily. 
The Culture of a native Engh Plant can give 
the Gardener but little Trouble; and he will 
-eafily be able to raife it to a yet more confummate 
Beauty. 
The Writers on Plants all name, and celebrate 
it. They call it Rofebay Willow Herb, from its 
Refemblance to the Refebay, Oleander, one of the 
fineft Garden Shrubs; and in their various Names, 
have generally added fome Epithet of Praife. Lyf- 
machia {peciofa, is a very common Name for it; 
and befide the peculiar Title Chamanerion, which 
feveral have given it who yet retain’d it among 
the Ly/: hdcheag S; Others have called it Ovagra. 
Linnaus; who reftored Order and Method 
in the Seience, feparating the many uadlike 
Plants, which his Predeceflors had joined un- 
der the Name Ly/imachia, into different Genera ; 
and indeed different Clafles, for fo Nature diftri-’ 
buted them, although il judging Art in earlier 
- Numb. XLII. 
narrow, but fomewhat lanceolated Leaves. 
The Diftinétion this Author eftablith’d among 
thefe Plants has been found very happy: thofe 
who in earlier Time faw. the Differences, did 
not perceive rightly wherein. they confifted ; ; and 
hence, while their fpecifick Names were unart- 
ful, and indifting ; they often enumerated Varie- 
ties as Species, while they in other Articles con- 
founded really diftin® Species together. 
-C. Bauurne has mentioned a broad leaved Rofe« 
bay Willow Herb, and a Dwarf Alpine Kind; but 
thefe are only accidental Variations: the Plant is 
the fame in thefe, and in the more uftial State ; 
and befide the obvious Difference from all other 
Kinds in the Elegance of the Flowers, and Form 
of the Leaves, itis diftinétly charaéterifed by their 
Difpofition. 
Ih fome of the Willow Herbs the Leaves ftand 
oppofite, or in Pairs; in others they are placed ina 
regular alternate Order; in this Species they are 
wildly feattered upon the Stalk ; and afford not 
only a Mark of Diftindtion, bar a very fingular 
Beauty. 
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