_ upper Scales of the 
_ The Flofcules compofing this. are numerous ; ; 
r, and they are cut into five h F 
Segments at “the Rit) which’ turn back. | i 
oPhe k jlaments. on. ¢ each: F lofculle are. fives ana | 
hey are’ fhort’ and: crowned § with Jong erret | | ae 
Buttons, forming. a hollow Cylinder. By GL ‘i 
In the Centre of thefe’rifes a fingle” Style 6f | 
-erowned’‘with a_ 
the: ‘Length of the ° Filaments, , ero i 
— fplit. Head. This takes. its. Origin | ‘from’ the: 
Head: of. a: -coronated Sees ae th tm | 
Sapper 
a i in, due ‘Time. 7 ai? ee eal 
; 10n¢ thefe appear certain 2 fae ales 5 ‘Tier 
rife: naked from Rudiments —of | “Seeds, without | 
thefe vit is. the: Cuftor n 
| of rE rs 
| | in a Nuirfery, becatife t the 
| | depends ae not being’ ‘removed.’ é 
eae 
various Tiapregpation' ice “not sneogtlaryy: the Poly- Sept. | 
a iperiaa. ‘ oe en 
Guar F bis Copia. : 
The Plant iss | Native of. Dries ha efbives 
i “mellow: Soils, «where 
ape Sides “OE Brooks 
‘eee Situation. 3 “With uus‘it dordestines die: ‘faite 
deep Mould, ; and: owill live. throuch Winter 
fh ltered Bordérs of the Garden... ° 
Mie equal Parts ‘of) Pond Mud “and bagi: 
\i | Mould, and dig this in two. ‘Spades? Depth” in. 
“foe” fmall. “Spot sic ke theltered Sifts 
‘ ie? hg “> 
tion. 
ee 
se 
’ Succefs. of the Pha 
res oa 
WwW hen 
he: young Plants appear ‘er awe ie. 
a | ‘thinned to LG F oot sis ee and from this Time , 
‘ad he ‘sents 1 to Neodbcea eae tend 
‘Hermaphfodite Flofcules. The Buttons in thefe | 
(al 1. | weeded and watered. : oe > 
a | the | éft Ti ime of puttin the Seeds. 
The. Clafs of the Plant is to a AE Ps ay fs ; 
is .- bat et nie i 
fame Summer, but ‘they will not comé ‘to their 
-coalefcing into a cylindrick Form, {peak it one of | an Perfection till the fucceeding ear. 
oo 
the Syngencfic a. Thefe and the Female Flowers both — 
ripen Seeds, wherefore the Plant belongs to that | 
Order, which comprehends thofe ‘in which the. 
* % % : ear ‘ 
# 4 3 2 , i .* i ee * x 
This is a a very pretty African’ plane, cally eid, | 
Bai thors were not acquainted with it : thofe who firft 
raifed it in Europe referred it to the Valerian 
Kinds; and Comme ine to the Valerianellas : he 
~ calls it Valerianella Africana fruticans foliis longis 
& anguftiffi mis: -fhrubby ftalked African Valeria- | | 
nella, with long and very narrow Leaves. 
The later Writers refer it to the new efta- | 
blifhed Genus Hebenftretia, of which we have in | 
a, preceding Part of this Work: defcribed another || 
Species, with indented Leaves ; from which this 1 ee of thefe are shorter than the others, Bhieoc 
Buttons | are oblong and’ lateral. 
} fingle, and has a‘ fine fall Head ; 
follows — an ‘oblong Seed- veflel re. ‘tHO- 
The Stem is woody, but does not, exceed» Af | Seeds. : 
The Clas. is found in thie’ different We lees 
: ‘The Student -has been told © 
| already, that when two of thefe are longer: 
The Leaves {tand irregularly, and in ‘great | than the’ others, the Plant is oné of ‘the Didy: Lm 
: namia : ‘ 
diftin@tion into Orders, is in this Clafs founded — 
| upon the Condition of the Seeds, whether ‘they - 
Insthis they have ‘a Cap-. - 
| fule, and the Plant is therefore referred to the 
is diftinguifh’d by the Name Hebenjtretia folits in- | 
_ degris: undivided leaved Hebenftretia. 
T he Root is brown, long, and fpreading. _ 
teen Inches in Height; it is divided into many Py 
The Bark is brown upon the lower. 1) of ‘the Filaments. 
Branches. 
Part, but the young Shoots are green. 
Numbers upon the Branches: they grow ob- 
liquely upright, and form a kind of abfolute 
Covering for them of confiderable, Thicknefs ; 5. 
_ they are oblong, very narrow, and adhere to thé 
Branches without Footftalks. 
| Their Colour is a 
frefh and fine green. ‘ 
white, 3 
The Flowers grow in long recular Spikes ae 1 Angiolpert mia. 
the Tops of all the Branches, tad are {mall and : 
After’ this there fhould be'a frefh fowing i bl 
| Bion, for the Plants are never ‘fo beautiful - “AS 
‘the firft eee they come into Flower. | 
\ ~ % ue a \ + : . i 
7 , 2 ke —- a % te , * a % aS a <> - % 
: i, the, “th, ee, a i Sj +s" tek, NG 1. a =o. oe ; 4 = s a - e* 
A ae ‘ ~ Pe | = é Tie 
5 ui NARROW. ‘LEAVED HEBENSTRETIAY 
Each. has its Cup -fmail, but aabaae in 
PI. 52. and making | a pleafing Variety. The old Au- | Strugtures, it is formed of one Piece divided into 
two Lips, a and tubular at the Bafe. The upper 
Lip is {fmall, narrow, andereét;, the, under longer 
and bent down. | 
One Petal oe, the Flower: it is tubular at 
| the Bafe, and at the Top cut into four Parts?” 
| thefe make a kind of upper Lip, the lower Lip 
of the Cup ferving in the Place of a lower. 
"The Filaments are fgur, and they rife rot 
the: two Sides of the lower Part ‘of the Flower ; 
he will remember alfo that-the Sub: 
be naked or covered. 
On bane ie- of “he well peal and well 
Bd "| hardened Séeds. ‘They rhuft be ‘fown here, “not 
“The Style is 
- anid: ‘thete’ - 
