Sept. 
_ of the Difk have five very fhort Filaments with 
oblong tubular Buttons; and in the midft of 
at the Verge are only female; they have no Fi- 
is the known Charaéter of the Syngenefia, and 
Segments at the Rim. Thofe on the Verge are 
Seeds, the Impregnation of thofe in the Female 
The Infide of thofe extream Leaves of the Cupis { is fecemingly unneceflary; the Order thetefore 5S 
white, and the Difk or Body of the Flower is yellow. | to which it belongs, is that of the Polygamia 
The Student will find a great deal invits Con- | /uperflua. 3 
ftruction, worthy of his Attention. % _ is 2 - 
It is of the compofite Kind, formed of a Mul- Culture of this Xerantuemuy. 
titude of tubular Flofcules, and furrounded by = | 
thefe feeming Rays, which preferve them. It is a Native of the Cape of Good Hope, | 
The general Cup is rounded, large, and formed | Where it thrives beft in thofe Veins of Earth which 
of many Series of Scales placed in the Manner of | fill the Cracks of Rocks : from whofe abrupt 
‘Tiles Over one another. Sy Te Summits and ir regulat Sides it hanes eight, 
The inner Series, refembling Rays, are thinner | ten, or twelve Foot in Length ; covering them 
than the reft, and are of a glofly Surface: thefe | with its moft refplendent Verdure, and difplay- 
have fo much the Appearance of Petals, that they ing its Beauties in a Way we cannot fee them here, 
mifled Commetine, and fora Time impofed upon | 4s the Winds tofs about the long loofe Branches, 
Linn vs; and they are arranged in the fame fixed only by their remote Root. With us It may 
Manner as the Rays of the After, and like Plants | be preferved in a Greenhoufe, but never thrives 
round the Difk. — 3 , oe : perfectly unlefs it be allowed the Benefit of a 
This is compofed of two Kinds of Flofcules, | Stove. ~~ a 
the Body of it of tubular, and the Verge of The beft Way of propagating it is by Seeds, 
a fingle Series of others tubular alfo, but lefs | but they do not ripen well in Lxgland unlefs 
regular. Thofe in the Centre of the Difk are of a | with great good Management. If they can 
Funnell-like Shape, and cut into five expanded | be obtained from the Cape, they are to be fown 
) in a Pot of fine Mould in Spring, and the 
tubular, lefs expanded at the Rim, and cut | Pot is to be fet up to the Rim in a Bark- 
into five lefs equal Segments. ~Thofe in the Body | bed; after this they are to be treated with 
great Care, Waterings and Air muft be occa- 
fionally allowed, and the young Plants muft be 
thinned till only four or five are left in the Pot: 
they muft be tranfplanted at a due Size into fepa- 
rate Pots, and thus brought into the Stove. 
The familiar Way of raifing it is by Cuttings ; 
thefe are to be had wherever there is a Plant, and 
they will freely take Root. The middle of ¥wie is 
the beft Time for this, and the Cuttings muft 
be planted in Pots of frefh Mould, and fet ina 
thefe, from a fhort Rudiment of a Seed, rifes a 
fine flender Style, exceeding the Filaments in 
Length, and terminated by a fplit Head. | 
Thefe Flofcules therefore are hermaphrodite, 
containing male and female Parts, and the others 
laments or Buttons, but a regular Rudiment of a 
Seed as the others, and a fingle Style from it, 
with a divided and large Head, the two Parts 
of which turn back. After the Flofcules are 
faded, the Cup remains ; defending the Seeds: thefe 
ripen equally after the hermaphrodite and female | 
Flowers. = | ny : 
The Clafs of the Plant is found. in the Coalef- 
cence of the five Buttons into a Cylinder; this 
the Manner we have before defcribed, on a Kind 
of Hot-bed covered with Fhoops and Canvas, 
Which ever Way be chofen, the Manage- 
ment muft be the fame. ‘The young Plants mutt 
be watered and fhaded till they have taken good 
Root, and then they muft by Degrees be hardened 
a little to the Air, and afterwards planted out into 
feparate Pots. Thefe mutt be fhaded till the Plants 
are well rooted, and then removed into the Stove. 
as the hermaphrodite Flowers ripen their own 
dam Garden, named it Trifolium Africanum fru- | that the Shrub is a Trefoil. 
foil, with hoary Leaves and yellow Flowers; and 
others have, in general, continued it unaltered. 
Shrub, ‘with good Care, rifes to a Yard in Height, 
and fends out every where a Multitude of wild | tered Manner. 
This is a very elegant Shrub, covered with | covered with a purple brown Bark, the Wood js 
Leaves on its innumerable Branches, and on | whitifh. The young Shoots are tender, of a pale 
the Head or general Surface formed by the Tops | greyith greef, and covered with a little Hoarynefs, 
of the Branches, crowned with Tufts of golden The Leaves ftand thick upon them all. They 
From the Bofoms of 
thefe ternate Leaves rife Clufters of young ones 
without Order or Regularity ; and in the fame 
Manner all along the young Shoots and tender 
Branches the Leaves are placed wildly in 
Pairs alternate, or in the moft loofe and feat- 
tacans foliis incanis flore luteo: African Shrub Tre- 
The Root is woody, large, and fpreading: the 
They are oblong, narrow, undivided at the 
Edges, 
Hot-bed ; or raifed among other tender Kinds in 
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