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a OF GARDENING 569 
a Auguft. never thrive fo well, nor flower fo ftrong, as | double Stock, and all its Varieties: there are Augutt, 
the fame Kind raifed from Seed; and where | befides this fome of a fhorter Growth, which 
r ; 
: there is a good Quantity of the Seed fown, there | muft be managed accordingly. -Of thefe we 
a is no Fear of having enough of the double | thall fpeak in their Place ona fucceeding Oc- 
: Flower. — | bes cafion. 
: 7 _ This is the Management of the common ! 
3. ORANGE HAWKWEED. 
_ This is a Plant very common in our Gar- | and of a very fine Orange Colour; or fome- 
_ Fig. 3. dens, and by its Singularity very well deferving |. what redder than. what we exactly mean by that 
to retain its Place there: the old Authors | Word. | 
have all defcribed it; but under different Names. | 
The Hawkweeds were eafily known, and this 
: appears fo plainly to belong to them, that one would 
= ‘wonder it fhould at any Time have been refer’d 
= to any other Genus ; but we find the Generality 
calling it Pelofella major, and Auricula muris Hif- 
panica: great Moufe-ear, aud Spanifh Moufe-ear. 
One Flower always fhews itfelf firft upon the 
Plant, and pafies through its State of Perfection, be- 
fore the others open. This is the moft perfect 
and moft beautiful : from this the Gardiner thould 
fave Seeds ; and in this the Botanift fhould fearch 
the Characters of the Plant. - 
He will find the Cup thick, and compofed of 
many narrow and unequal: Scales plac’d length- 
ways and incumbent. 
In this ftands the general Flower, which js ae 
compofed of many Flofcules, laid in a regular 
Manner one over another, and all of the fame 
‘Structure. - , 
Each Flofcule is form’d of a fingle Petal, and 
is flat, narrow, and when perfect, cut in five 
Places at the End. . ) 
To each’ of thefe Flofcules belong the male’ 
and female Parts of Impregnation ; the male Parts 
are five very fhort Filaments, with oblong’ and 
tubulated Buttons, growing together in Form 
of a Cylinder. : | He 
The Style is fimple, of the Length of the Fila 
ments, and has a double Head, the two Parts of 
which are equal; this rifes from the Rudiment 
of the Seed, which, when it ripens, is winged 
with Down. ; | 
The Student knows that in this Café the Coa. 
| lefcence of the Buttons marks the Cla@ of the 
Plant: it is one of the Syngenefia. He has 
feen in many Inftances, that the Flowers in the 
Plants of that Clafs are compofed of tubular Flof- 
cules in the Difk, and.a Verge of Rays of the 
‘flat or ligulated Kind: this is one of thofe in 
which all the Flofcules are ligulated ; and thefe 
Flowers are called imbricated, from the Flof. - 
cules lying one over another in the Manner of 
Tiles. | ne | 
The Sub-divifions of the Syngenefious Plants 
are formed upon the Manner of Impregnation: 
ig this it is equal; for the Flofcules have each the 
male and female Parts perfect, and all ripen 
Seeds ; therefore what one does for another, is 
returned in the fame Manner. 
\ 
Our Gardiners have been from this led to 
call it Golden Moufe-car, and they have a cant 
Name for it alfo which has been in Ufe more } 
than a hundred Years, Grim the Collier. -Lin- 
Neus refers it to the Hawkweeds, and diftin- 
guifhes it by the Addition of Hieracium, Foliis 
integris caule fubnudo fimpliciffimo pilofe corymbifero : 
entire leav’d Hawkweed, with a hairy, fimple, co- 
rymbiferous Stalk, with fearce any Leaves, 
Thofe who have before refer’d it to the Hawk- 
weed kind, have diftinguifhed it by the Name 
Hortenfe, Garden Hawkweed, and they have added 
tho’ in odd Terms, the Colour of the Flower. C. 
Bavuine fays, Floribus atro- purpurafcentibus : 
with blackifh, purple Flowers: but their Colour 
isa very ftrong Orange Scarlet. 
The Root is oblong; purplith at the Head, 
white below, and hung with many thick Fibres : 
befides thefe it fends: out every Way a Kind of 
Tendrils, which take Root again at their Ends, 
and fpread and propagate it abundantly. 
The Leaves are numerous and large: their 
Colour is a deep, blackith green, and they are 
covered with firm and ftiff whitifh Hairs; they 
are oblong, undivided, and of moderate Breadth. 
The Stalk is fimple, upright, round, and al- 
moft naked; a fingle, {mall Leaf fometimes 
adheres to it, rarely more: its Colour is a 
paler green than that of the Leaves, and it is 
covered with the fame Kind of Hairynefs: it 
, divides into no Branches, but at the Top fpreads 
a out into a tufted Head. of Flowers. The Bot- 
.. toms of the Hairs, which cover the Stalk, are 
black, and they appear at a Diftance as fo many 
f black Spots upon its Surface: the Height of the 
aq Stalk is a Foot and a half, and the Crown of 
. Flowers at its Summit is often five Inches in 
Diameter, but where there are fewer of them 
they are finer. | 
_ The Buttons impregnate their own Styles 
and thofe neareft them, and the Plant belongs 
a Each Flower is furrounded by a rough, to the Syngencia Polgamia cequalis. 
4 blackifh Cup, and is itfelf rounded, radiated, | 
N°? 48. 3 aE | | Culture 
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