: a 
Auguft. juft above the Rays, and after this they burft 
out in Succeffion. When fully opened they are 
hollow, fomewhat funnel-fhaped, rib’d on. the 
Outfide, and divided into five Parts at the 
Rim. 
~ From the Hollow of thefe Plocules burft five 
Filaments, with cylindrick Buttons; and after 
thefe have fhewn themfelves fome Time, appears 
a fimple Style from the Rudiment of the Seed, 
whofe Head fplits into two Parts, and thefe turn 
back. 
When the F lowers are fallen appears a Head 
of naked Seeds: this is of a conic Form, and is 
 fupported by the common Cup. — 
The Seeds are fixed to a conic Receptacle, and 
feparated by littie Scales; and each, is crowned 
by that fmall Margin which firft appeared upon 
its Rudiment, asa Cup of the Flofcule, and is 
now evidently dented in four Places. 
of each Seed’ is an oblong fquare. 
The Student has been already acquainted, that 
- the Coalefcence of the Buttons is the Character 
of the Syngenefious Clafs, which includes the com- 
pofite flowered Kinds: they form a kind of Cy- | 
linder in each Flofcule of this Plant, and refer 
other Inftances, to allow it too little : 
The Figure 
Bed of light Mould : 
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no Style, and thefe Rudiments are abortive. 
The tubulous Flowers in the Difk only produce 
Seeds, and hence the Subdiftinétion under which 
this Plant ftands in the Linn @an — is that 
of Polygamia Fruftranea. 
Culture ofthis RupBeEckia. 
-.The Plant is a perennial, Native of North 
America, and lives very freely in the open Bor- 
ders of our Gardens with little Trouble. 
The Gardener is induced by this, as in many 
he neglects 
it becaufe it will live in fpite of his Neglect; but 
with due Care it will be much more beautiful. 
The common Mould of the Garden very well ' 
fupports it; and the parted Roots grow freely: 
but the Way to obtain fine Plants is to fow the 
Seeds. | 
This fhould be done early | in Spnaet on a 
the Plants fhould be re- 
moved in Autumn into the Places where they 
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are intended to flower, and they fhould be al- — 
lowed a Yard clear Space about them. 
In this Manner from each Root there will rife 
it evidently to that P lace in the Linn@an } four-or more Stalks; which together, will furnith 
for all the latter End of Summer, a Succeffion - 
Syftem. 
The Rays, or Female Flofcules, rife from a 
~ Rudiment of a Seed, as the others ; ; but this has # 
of very fpecious and very lafting Flowers. 
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This is another tall and fpecious Plant, fuffi- 
Leaves, the Lips fplit and bearded at the Ends. 
ys hardy to live in the common Borders of | A Name amply diftinguifhing it from all the 
a Garden, and worth any degree of Care, though 
it requires very little. 
The Writers on Plants inv been long ac- 
quainted with it, though they have Splaeed it 
much amifs in their Works. 
--The Gardener is to be told that this Szderian 
Lark/pur, which he underftands as a new. Ac- 
quifition, was known to Ciustus, and to Caspar 
BavHINE. 
The firft of thefe calls it Acomtum Lycofionum | 
flore delphinii Silefiaci: Wolfs-bane with the 
Silefian Larkfpur Flower; and the latter, coni- 
tum caruleum birfutum flore confolide regalis: blue 
hairy Aconite with a Larkfpur Flower.—GeErarp 
and Parxinson have alfo named it, and with | 
the reft, under the Addition of its having the 
Larkfpur Flower. : 
‘ Linn us refers it to that Genus; for in the 
Flowers we are to trace the Characters, of Ge- 
-nera; and thefe Writers fhould have known that 
whatfoever has a a Flower is a Lark- 
{pur. 
He adds as the Diftingtion of the Species, Nec- 
tariis diphyllis, labellis bifidis, aptce barbatis folits 
incifis caule ereéio: 
Leaves, and the Nectaria compofed of two 
: N° 47. 
upright Larkfpur with divided 
other Kinds, as it defcribes the peculiar Form of 
the Flower. 
The Root is large, blackith, and hung with 
numerous dark foft Fibres. 
The Stalk is fix Foot high, ridged, tinged 
with purple, and a little hairy; hollow, and 
decorated with many Branches. 
The Leaves are large, broad, and deeply di- 
vided into numerous Segments ; ; and of a dufky 
ereen. 
The Flowers crown the Tops of the Stalks, 
| and all the Br anches, and are of delicate purplith 
blue. They are difpofed in long and thick fet 
Spikes, and naturally ftand horizontally. 
There is no abfolute Cup to the Flower; the 
Receptacle is naked at the Point of the Foot- 
| ftalk ; but a little below there rife from ‘the Foot- 
ftalk two flender Points, which affift in fupport- 
ing the Petals in their Place. 
We have obferved that where. there ee Cup; 
Nature gives fomething ufually in its °Place..- 
Thefe purplifh Points ferve in that: ‘Manner 
here. 
The Flower is ioliose ‘of ive. Petals}. uns 
equal in Size, and unlike ; ‘in Shapes bur Apread- 
ing regularly open. 
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