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For the Beginning of SEPTEMBER. 
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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfection. 
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gularity, Fragrance, and Beauty; which bears 
our Winters ; 
this Time known more generally. 
The Antients could know nothing of it, for 
no Country except America affords it native ; but 
what is ftrange, is that although it has been in 
England many Years, few have taken it into 
their Gardens; and though known familiarly a 
great while, it has not yet an eftablithed botanical 
Name. 
We owe the firft Knowledge of it to CaTESBY; 
an indefatigable Searcher after natural Curiofities 
- jn thofe Countries he traverfed for that Purpofe : 
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he has figured and defcribed it in a faithful, if not 
accurate Manner, and has named it in his Way, 
Frutex corni foliis conjugatis, floribus inftar anemones 
fellate, petalis craffis rigidis colore fordide rubente, 
cortice aromatico: that is, Aromatick barked Shrub 
with coupled Leaves like thofe of the Cornel, 
and dufky red Flowers, with thick rigid Petals 
formed like the ftarry Anemones. 
A better Account of its Characters we owe 
G. D. Ebret, the beft modern Defigner in Bo- 
tany. His accurate Hand gave us a Figure of 
‘it under the Name. of Beureria petalis coriaceis 
okjongis, calycis foliolis reflexis: Beureria with ob- 
. Numb. Li. 
and fhould have been long before 
Sept. E place here before the curious Eye, ; long tough Petals to thie Flower, and with the $ ept. 
eases one of the fineft Shrubs with which | Leaves of the Cup turned back : it has fince this | 
Pl. 5x. America has enriched. our Gardens: in | been called in France Butneria, and here Bafteria: ce 
Fig. 1. which every Circumftance of Value concurs, Sin- | but it is fingular, that although Ehret, whofe Fis — 
delity Linn 2us knew to be equal to his Dili- 
gence, fo long ago as in 1449, defcribed and 
fisured it, and long before him the firft named 
Catessy; yet that Author has not given it a 
Name or Place in his Species Plantarum, though 
publifhed after Ebret’s Drawing was made; nor 
in his laft Edition of the Genera in 1754; or his 
Syftema Nature in 1756. though the Figure by 
Ebret was publifhed before that Work. — 
No-body could have more Right to give. 
a Name to it than Hbret, who firft afcertained 
and figured its Characters. We therefore con- 
tinue it that he gave, Beureria, which the Re- 
putation of Mr. Brurer may very well war- 
rant: but .as there is no other known Species of 
this Genus, there needs not the Addition; it will 
be proper to call it fimply by that generical 
Name. . 
Our Gardeners from the Figure of the F lower, 
or from what they had heard of the firft Name 
given by Carzssy, called it the Anemone Trees 
and fome from the Fragrance of its Bark, which 
has the Scent of Nutmegs, Cloves, and Mace, 
at once, the All-fpice Tree. 
It is-a- tall Shrub of irregular Growth, very. 
handfome in its natural wild Form, and capable 
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