In the Body of. the Flower are placed four 
Filaments, two longer and two thorter, with 
roundifh Buttons; and amidft | thefe a fimple 
Style {plit into two Parts at the Head. 
The Seeds follow naked, the Cup ferving as 
their Defence, and they are four in Number. ~ 
- The Clafs to which this Plant belongs, is 
found in the Difproportion of the Filaments: the 
two longer than the others fhew it 1s one of the 
Didynamia: and the Seeds ftanding naked, fhew 
’ it alfo one of Gymuofpermia. 
Culture of this BETONY. 
| The Plant is a Native of the Eaft, but bears | 
our Winters in the open Air. It loves a deep 
Soil; and no Compoft fuits it better than the 
common Garden Mould. As it is.a perennial 
fibrous rooted Plant, it may be eafily propagated | 
by parting the Roots in Autumn, but the beft | 
Method i is to raife it from Seed, ‘This ripens well 
ways the handfomeit, and moft regular in their 
Growth. 
The Method is this. Save Seeds from a ftrong 
and hearty Plant, and when ‘they have been well - 
dried, and carefully preferved through Winter, | 
fow them in the Beginning of April wpon a Piece 
of common Ground in the Nurfery. 
. ‘When the Plants are’ grown ftrong enough to 
remove, take up as many of them as are intended 
to be raifed, and plant them at a Foot Diftance 
in a Border of rich Mould; there let them ftand 
all the Remainder of the Summer, and through 
Winter: the next Year they will flower. 
In Autumn they fhould be taken up, and 
planted afrefh in a new Quantity of Mould, and 
thus they ‘will continue in Beauty many Years; 
| but the beft Method is to raife a new Stock fre- 
quently from Seed ; for the Plant never is fo per~ 
fect.as the firft Year of its flowering. — 
Pl. 47.- 
Fig. 4. 
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4 LACINIATED RUDBECKIA, 
The Gardener is fcarce well acquainted with 
the Name Rudbeckia, but the Plant is not ftrange 
to him. Ever fince we have been familiar with 
the American Botany, the fpecious and confpi- 
cuous Afpect of this Herb, has given it a Place | 
in our Gardens. 
The earlier Writers could not be acquainted 
with it, for they knew nothing of its native Coun- 
try; but to thofe who have written fince, it is 
very familiar. They have all defcribed it, but 
under a ftrange Variety of Names ; Coruutus made 
it an Aconite, adding, Helianthemum Canadenfe: 
the Canada Sunflowered Aconite. 
C. Bavurne confidered it as a Doronicum, and 
diftinguithed it by its Country, and the Jagged- 
nefs of its. Leaves, Doronicum Americanum laci- 
neato folio. —. Morison calls it an American Chry- 
fanthemum, adding, perenne ; and foliis divifis: 
divided leaved American Corn Marygold ; d Res 
have named it Obeli/cotheca. 
Linnavs difcarding all thefe as barbarous or 
ill chofen Terms, eternalized Rudbeck, by calling 
the confpicuous Genus after him: he adds as the 
Diftinction of this Species, foliis compofites lactni- | 
atis: Rudbeckia with compofite jagged Leaves. 
The Root is thick, and hung with many long 
and large Fibres... ‘ 
The Stalk is firm, upright, and five Foot 
high; rounded, but hag es rib’d, and of a ftrong 
green. 
The Leaves ftand irregularly, at {mall Di- | 
ftances, and they are large.. 
Their Colour is a deep green, and they are 
divided into three principal Parts, and thofe 
again deeply cut and jagged. As the whole Leaf 
is een fo are all the Parts ; and when thefe Seg- 
ments are notched, as they dee are in the larger 
3 
| are of the compofite radiated Kind, 
Leaves, thofe Indentings are vaft, open, and 
diftant. The whole Plant has a flight Hairy~ / 
nefs. 3 
The Flowers are numerous, large and elegant: 
they terminate the main Stalk, and the many 
Branches from the Bofom of the Leaves, they 
large and 
very beautiful. They are when full open about 
three Inches and a half in Diameter; and are 
compofed of numerous, long, yellow Rays, and 
a Multitude of Flofcules arranged in a kind of 
Cone, and opening in regular Succeffion from the 
- Bottom. 
The Cup is compofed of feveral Leaves in a 
double, triple, or quadruple Series ; they aré ob- 
long,, broad, and of a fine green. 
Linn avs allows only twelve in the generical | 
Character of Rudbeckia, but it is common to fee 
‘in this Species more than thirty. Nor are they — 
confined as he exprefies it, to two regular Series; 
befide this general Cup there is to each of the 
Flofcules a kind of fmall Cup, or regular fup- 
porting Rim from the Receptacle. 
Immediately within the general Cup are placed 
the Rays; thefe are the Female Flofcules, and 
within them rife the Cone of. tubular Flofcules, 
which have both Male and Female Organs, and 
are thence called Hermaphrodite. 
The Rays are fourteen ufually, fometimes 
more, rarely lefs.— ‘Linn avs fays twelve, but 
Nature ufually exceeds that Account: they are 
moderately broad; they are ‘nip’d at 
the End, and they ‘naturally hang down. ‘Their 
Colour is a very ftronge and fine yellow, and they — 
are uneven on the Surface, rib’d and furrow’d. 
- The Flofcules at firft appear -in form of fo 
many’ clofe green Buttons. ranged in a: regular 
Manner... The firft. that open are a Ring or Series 
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