A COMPLEAT BODY 
Augutt. do. afterwards, point “upwards and being hollowed 
of thefe ftands a Clufter of pointed Styles, with 
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Pig,, 2. 
in the Manner of the Halves of a Nutfhell, clofe 
at the Edges. Thefe appear Buds; and the 
young Botanift would be very excufeable if he 
fuppofed them the two, Leaves of a proper Cup, 
on feparating therti. - ‘ 
The Bud 1s found eed, and reel | a the 
Hollow; as it grows toward Maturity its Foot- 
{talk lengthens, the Leaves feparate and fall hori- 
zontally, and foon after the Top of the Stalk 
droops; and the Flower obtaining its due Big- 
nefs, opens at the four Points, and difclofes that 
firigular Head or Tuft of downy Matter within. 
This is formed of numerous filky Filaments, 
to which adhere the Buttons; and in the Centre 
fimple Heads rifing from the Rudiments of fo 
many Seeds. | 
The Filaments are white and hairy, the But- 
tons long and furrow’d. | 
The Styles are white and filvery ; ais their . 
Tents alfo white, but without that Glofs. When 
the Flower is fallen, the Seeds appear in a naked 
Clufter furnifhed with the Styles. 
The Filaments adhere to ‘the Receptacle, and | 
this with their Number places it among the Poly-_ 
andria; the numerous Styles among the Polyginia. 
Culture of this CLEMATIS. 
It is a Native of Hungary, and many other of. 
the northern Parts of Europe, and thrives’ beft 
wild in a firm tough Soil, and where there is 
fome little Shade. This we fhould imitate and 
improve in its Culture in the Garden. 
Let the Compoft in which it is raifed be equal 
‘Parts of good Garden Mould, and firm loamy 
parting the Roots ; 
Earth froma Pafture;-and- the Place fome Part Auguitt 
‘of the Ground where there is a Shelter from’ the 
Noon-fun, and from cold Winds. 
The ufual Manner of propagatirig it is by 
and with dug_Attention after- 
wards, the bey Gardener > san! be allowed to do 
no more. 
The tes long before they fhoot, and the 
Plants do not flower the firft Year, neither are 
there any Advantages of Confequence from this 
Practice. The Plants from Seed are ufually bolder 
and more vigorous, and their Flowers better 
coloured than ordinary for the ‘firft Year; but 
if the parted Roots be managed well, the Plants 
raifed from them will keep their full Perfection ; 
while the others; after the firft Bloom, will lofe 
their Superiority, and come to an exact Equality 
with the Reft. tole 
The Time fot parting the Roots is Ofoder, 
and they muft then.be planted at two Foot and 
a half Diftance, and covered two Inches. 
Every Year at the fame Seafon they muft be 
taken up, and reduced to a proper Bignefs, and 
planted again in the fame Place, but in a frefh 
Parcel of a Compott. 
After thefe Plantings it will be proper to give 
once or twice a little Water, and at all Times 
to allow them the common Advantage of being © 
kept clear fromm Weeds. 
_ As there is no Defign at any Time of faving | 
Seeds, the Flowers fhould be picked off as they 
decay 3 and by this Means, and the Affiftance of 
now and then a Watering in dry Weather, there 
will be a Succeffion of Bloom throughout the 
whole Summer; very fingular, and to every Eye | 
very pleafing. _ 
ee ALOPECUROIDE ASTRAGALUS. 
There is fcarce fo one a Plant in our Gar- 
dens as that we here cpelent the Reader; and 
though it can by no means come under the De- 
nomination of a Flower, few are more elegant. 
Its whole Form pleafes the Eye, and its Hardy- 
nefs and eafy Culture are a farther Recommenda- 
tion. 
The late Writers on Botany, in general, have 
named it. Tournerort calls it Afragalus alpinus 
procerior alopemroides: tall Alpine Fox-tail A ftra- 
galus. — Linnazus, Aftragalus caulefcens fpicis 
cylindricis fubfeffilibus calycibus leguminibufque lana- 
tis: upright Aftragalus with cylindrick Spikes of 
Flowers, almoft without Footftalks, and woolly 
Cups and Pods. 
The Root is fibrous and. fpreads far. 
The Stalk is round, thick, upright, hairy, 
and a Yard high; of a pale green, not branched, 
jointed, bent a little from Joint to Joint, and 
hollow. 
The Leaves are extreamly fingular and beau- 
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| sifal. 
for ftands at each Joint of the Stalk, 
and they are of the winged, or pinnated Kind, a 
Foot in Length; and narrow. ‘The Rib is pale, 
_ and covered with a long woolly Down. 
The Pinnz are about four and twenty Pair on. 
each, with an odd one at the End: they are oblong, 
moderately broad, undivided, and of a pale green, 
covered with the fame woolly Hairs which over- 
fpread the reft of the Plant; and the Ribs are 
beautifully twifted, or waved in their Courfe. | 
The Flowers are moderately large and yellow, 
and they are. cluitered together in very elegant 
thick Heads: thefe are of the Bignefs of a Hen’s 
Ego, and they appear much of that Form at 
firft ; but as the upper Flowers open, they become 
cylindrick. They are placed in the Bofoms of the 
Leaves, almoft without Footftalks, and‘their Cups 
are woolly as the reft of the Plant. The woolly 
Matter upon thefe is white, very long, and thick 
fet, and adds not a little. to the Beauty of the 
Tuft: the pale yellow Flowers appearing with a 
parti- 
