Bea etn Peer ne i ne 
Sept. 
one without Foot-ftalks. 
a 
, Pl 92, 
‘Fig. 3. 
to the Beauty of the Plant. 
~ fimple Buttons. 
Capitulo aureo: 
OF GARDENING 
615 
Edges, fharp-pointed, ane fixed to the Branch ordinate DiftinG&tion; which j is in. others the great Sept. 
green, and they are dufted over in the fame Man- 
ner as the young Breaches, with a fine light- 
grey Powder. 
The Flowers ftand in Clufters at the Extre- 
mities of the Branches, but often the upper 
Leaves rife above them; which adds not a little 
They are large, thick 
fet together, and of a fine gold yellow. The whole 
Shrub is covered with them, and when they are in 
the Bud, as well as when in full F lower, they are ex- 
tremely pretty. The Buds before the Flowers 
begin to open, terminate the Sralkg and Branches 
in round thick Heads of.a filvery Whitenefs : the 
weaker Branches often droop with them. 
The Flowers when they burit forth, afford a 
new and much more elegant Appearance; they 
are of the papilionaceous Form, and throw them- 
felves more freely and elegantly open than al- 
mott any of the Trefoil Kind. 
The Cup is formed of a fingle Picce, and is 
tubular, and at the Verge is cut into five Seg- 
ments. The Body of the Flower has its shire 
regular Parts, Vexillum, Ale, and Carina. 
The Vexillum is broad pointed at the End, 
and turned back; the Ale are fhort and: turn 
up; and the Carina is fhorter yet, and turns 
up with them. . | 
Within the F lower are ten Filaments, nine 
of which unité at their Bafis into a Body, and 
the tenth is loofe: thefe are all crowned with 
{i their Centre appears a fimple 
flender Style from an oval Rudiment of a Fruit, 
Their Colour is a greyifh | Character. 
Culture of this Truroit. 
The Plant is a Native of Africa, where it covers 
the wild, poor, and rocky Hills; as the common 
Furze with us; fpreading as it were a golden 
Carpet over them, for the Extent of many 
Miles. With us it requires to be fheltered from 
the Severity of Winter, but will very well bear 
to Be fet out in Summer in a warm and fa- 
vourable Expofure; and may be treated as the 
other Greenhonfe Plants. 
The beft Way of raifing it is. by Seed; but 
thete is great Uncertainty of their ripening 
perfectly here; fo that if they cannot bé ob- 
tained ftom its native Country, ’tis better to 
truft to Cuttings. | 
Thefe ‘fhould be taken in uly re the mott 
healthy Branches of a vigorous Shrub; and raifed 
among thofe of other Kinds upon the Bed we 
have directed to be made at that Seafon for this 
Purpofe, with Dung underneath, and with a De- 
fence of Hoops iad ‘Canvas, 
When by frequent Wateting and Shade they 
have been brought to Root, they muft be taken 
up and planted feparately in Pots, taking up a good 
Ball of Earth with them, and watering =r Care- 
fully as well as fhading till they have t taken Root, 
After this they are to be fet in the fame Place 
with the other Greenhoufe Plants, 
with them in Autumn. 
They will flower the fecond Wear and all 
this turns up as thé réft, and is terminated by | the Caution that need be given the Gardener 
‘a roundifh Head. 
is, that he leaves them to Nature in their 
- ‘The two Affortments of the Filaments fhew the | Growth. The more Branches they throw out 
Plant to be one of the Diadelphiaof Linn aus, and 
their Number refers it.to the Decandria: this 
being én that Clafs the Mark only of a fub- 
the better, and the Wildnefs of their Form 
fhould be encouraged rather than retrenched, for 
it is their proper Beauty. | | 
gn GOLBDBAN- CUD WE E DB 
this Plant to he | 
humbler Clafs of Cudweeds, which thofe who 
wrote lefs correétly called by the founding 
Linn aus has reduced 
Name of Llichry/um. In this BozERHAAVE aiid 
ComMELINE had agreed, and they were Au- 
thorities Men eld < not blufh to follow. 
- Borruaave named it Elichry/um Africanum folio : 
oblongo tomentofo, caulem amplectente, fore luteo : 
yellow African Elichryfum, with an oblong, 
woolly Leaf, embracing the. Stalk; and Com- 
MELINE, Elchry/i ium Africanum latrifolium fatidum 
Linn £U5, having better fixed 
the Diftinétions of Genera in the Syngenefious 
Clafs, refers this to the Gnaphalium, and adds as 
the Diftinétion of the Species, Poliis amplexicay- 
libus [patulatis ramis patentibus corymbis aggregatis : 
Cudweed with fpatulate Leaves furroundifig the 
Stalk; and fpreading Branches crowned with 
clufter’d Heads. 
/ 
- 4 over one another; 
The Root is long, and futnifhed wirh irinu« 
merable Fibres, 
The Stalk is thick, round, firm, white, and 
woolly; and rifes to two Foot in Height, 
fpreading every Way innumerable Bratiches, which 
{tand wide, loofe, and fcattered. z 
The Leaves ate large, oblong, and of the 
fame woolly Afpect with the Stalk. They fur- 
round it at the Bafe, and they are broadeft 
toward the middle, waved at the Edges, and 
obtufe. <r, 
The Flowers. crown the Retipeie of all 
the Branches, and on the principal of them 
form large and handfome Heads. They are of 
a very delicate yellow; bright and fhining, and 
have the additional Value of being very lafting. 
The common Cup is rounded, large, and com: 
pofed of Scales of an oblong Shape, lying loofely: 
and the upper one ftanding 
_ more 
and houfed. 
