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For the latter Part of SEPTEMBER. 
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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfection. 
1, INDIAN BXACUM, 
Sept. rr HIS ‘extteaiily pretty little annual rifes 
| fo freely with us from Seed, and makes 
Pl 53. fo agreeable 4 Variety amone the larger 
Fig. = dae mote Giatious Stove Plants, that it very well 
deferves the Attention of all who have Opportu- 
nities of raifing it: nor is the Stove Heat to be . 
: fuppofed effential to its flowering $ it fucceeds 
Seft-with-that Management,-but- will live- with- 
out that Advantage in a warm and well fheltered 
Tilace. | 
The old Writers Bae not be acquainted with 
dt, for ’tis not native. any where but. in the Ame- 
Syiton Iflands. . We owe the firft tolerable Account and this travelling from Mouth. to Mouth, all 
rof it to PLUKENET; who. feeing fomething of a that was. called the Science was remembering Cae 
: Refemblance of two Plants, the /mall Centaury and Men were content to call him a Botanift, who 
the Saint Fabius Wort, in. it, named from both; knew Plants by. their Names ; ; and he was the 
a yun qninus Hypericoides fore luteo, lini capi- \ beft who. knew moft in Number. 
4 | fulis: flax headed yellow Saint John’ s Wort like | Fi rom this Confufion and Ertor, the difcerning 
Amall Centaury. Swede refcued the Science : he gave Names to 
JINN AUS refers it to a new Genus Exacum appropriated Affortments of Plants agreeing in 
and as there is another Species whofe Flowers are obvious Charaéters; and to be called a Botanift 
feffile, he diftinguifhes this by the Footftalks. to now, it is needful to follow him through the Va- 
. them. Exacum foridts pedunculatis: Exacum with rieties Of Nature, and learn them. 
- Flowers on Footftalks. Ss thus in the prefent Inftance ; ‘and What 
“We have an [nftance in. thefe. two Names of | was fuppofed to render the Science difficult in 
eases and Linn uss, of the Impérfection this, and other Cafes, is at length found to make 
“of Botany till the laft Author’ $ Time, and of, the it clear. _ | | 
Linn us. ‘finding this and the other Plant we — 
have: harned, diftingé froin. - all ‘others in. their 
Characters, yet mutually agreeing in them, fepa- 
7 rated 
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Nant; it is neceffaty to know two ‘other Plants 
befide that to whofe Genus it was referred : 
even the Name of that Genus is very unfcienti- 
fick ; and when the two other Plants, and its 
Chatatters are known, we find that this be- 
fore us belongs neither to that Genus, nor has 
any diftinct or proper Refemblance of the other 
two. ; 
2 Sak was the uncertain State of Botanical 
Knowledge, fo vague its Terms, and fo unfettled 
its Diftinétions. A Plant was known by the 
Name its firft Finder gave it, however improper, 
aah Tih 
