OF G GARDENIN x 
omnes Mhorter at the Sides. 
The Filaments are four; they are fittiated under 
Cover of the upper Lip; and two of them are 
longer than the others: they are terminated by 
oblong Buttons. 
In the Centre of the Flower rifes a fingle Style 
from a four parted Rudiment of a Fruit, this 
ripens into four diftinét Seeds, which lie without 
any Defence in the Bottom of the Cup. 
When the Filaments in a Flower differ regularly 
in Length, that Difproportion is the Mark of the 
Clafs ; the two longer Filaments refer this Plant 
to the Didynamia. | 
F puanilt crimfon Lines, three longer in the midaley two | five in almoft ary Soil ot Situation; but the moft Augutti 
favourable is a South eaft Expofure, and a mellow 
Earth. The Roots encreafe faft, and it may be 
propagated by parting them in Autunin: the 
Seeds ripen very well with us, and grow freely; 
but there is no Advantage in raifing the Plant 
that Way, for there is no Variation in the Flower 
expected ; and therefore there will be no Benefit 
from the fowing. 
Let the Bed be dug deep, and about one 
third of Pond Mud shied with the Mould. In 
this let the parted Roots be planted in the 
Beginning of Ofober, allowing them a Yard 
Diftarice, and covering them up an Inch; they 
will require no farther Care but weeding and 
watering when they fhoot up to Stalk: but 
they fhould every Autumn afterwards be taken 
up and reduced toa due Size; and the Border 
very thoroughly and deeply dug, 
The Subdiftinétions in that Clafs are founded on 
the Difpofition of the Seeds: They are naked in 
this Plant, and the Section to which it belongs is 
therefore that of the Gymmno/permia. 
4 
Culture of this Putomis. 
It is a hardy, perennial rooted Plant, and will 
‘ VARIOUS FLOWER’D CORONILLA. 
This is Siesler of the weedy Plants to which long 5 the Crown of Bloort, which terminated 
Curiofity rather than Beauty muft give a Place in | each, is an Inch in Diameter; it is compofed of 
the Garden: but although it have nothing of | numerous Flowers, fupported on flender Footitalks, 
_ the Luftre of the nobler Flowers, the pleafing | | all rifing from one Point at the Head of the 
Irregularity of its Growth, the vaft Quantity | general Stalk. ; | 
and long Succeffion of its Bloom, plead for its The Flowers ate papilignabeohs: and. their 
Admittance ; and with thefe its eafy. Culture. wares Colouring, fo mtch celebrated by the 
The Generality of Authors have been acquainted botanical Writers, confifts ef 2 delicate ctimfon 
with it though under various Names; C. Bavxtne | and white. The Vexillum, ot upper Petal, is of 
calls it Sasa Dumetorum : the Patches vetch the moft delicate Crimfon, the Ale and the Carina 
of the Thickets ; and Ciusius before him, and are white, with a very little Tinge of re ed 3 and 
many after him, have called it by the fame Name. | the whole Flower not only varies in this Refpect 
Others have called it Colutea berbacea ; but all have paler, deeper, and more or lefs variegated upot 
added Flere vario, from the pretty Variety and fepatate Plants, but on the fame Plant in its 
Mixture of Colouring in the Flower. The latet | various Stages of Perfedtion or Detay, 
Writers have univerfally named it Coronilla, and | 
Linn aus, who adopts that generical Term, adds 
to diftineuifh this Species, Herbacea legtminibus 
eretiis teretribus torofis mumerofis foliis glabris: 
fmooth leav’d herbaceous Cofonilla, with nume- The Body eae tne eee 2 et ae 
— erect, rounded, and knotted Pods, — proper papilionaceous Parts, Vexillum, Al#, and 
‘The Root is perennial, creeping, and hung | Carina, The Vexillum is heart- fhap’d, and 
With many Fibres; it has a white woody Pith, | turd back each Way at the Edges. The 
and is of a bitterifh Tafte. : Alw ate oval, and of the Height of the Vex- 
_ The Stalk is round, weak, ridged, and of- illum, obtufe, clos’d together upwatday and open 
ten twifted; the Colour is a pale green: it | below. The Carina is comprefled, and turned 
keeps but poorly ereét, and is loaded with many | upwards. — 
Branches. 
~The Botanift, exarnining the Flowers more 
accurately, will find each has its Cup form’d ~ 
of one Piece fplit into two Parts, and fomewhat - 
comprefied. 
4 
The Filaments are tet, nine of thefe 1 unite into 
The Leaves are placed alternately, they are | g Body i in the under Part, and the tenth is loofe. 
pinhated, long, and of a pale green: the Pinne aré | ‘This the Student knows is the Charaéter of the 
_ oblong and obtufe, and eight or ten Pair ufually Diadelphia of Linn avs, and the Number of the 
itand on each Rib with an odd one at the End. Filaments places it under the Decandria: the 
From thé Bottotns of all the Leaves rife | Subdivifions in this Clafs being famed from the 
Footftalks, fupporting Clufters of Flowers. Thefe | Number of the Filaments, which is in others the. 
wre ridged like the ae and are three Inches | claffical Character itfelf. i 
N°? 4Q0 71 | Culture 
