| 66) A COMPLEAT BODY. 
cinta : .& ees 
~ Odtob. themfelves divided by deep Incifions in the pin- of the Filaments, rifing from a imail Rudi- O&ob. 
nated Manner, and ftand remote, fo that the | ment, and crowned with an obtufe Head. 
whole Leaf is extremely elegant. The middle In the female  Flofcules there are no Fila- 
ments, but there is underneath them a Rudi- 
Rib is foft, of a purplifh Colour toward the 
Ground, and lightly covered with a grey feattered | ment of a Seed, from which rifes a fingle Style 
with two obtufe Heads which turn back. 
Down. The whole Leaf is fix or eight Inches 
The Seeds ripen equally after the tubular 
long, and has a ftrong Smell not unlike that 
of Camphire, and with fome Flavour of the and ligulated. Flofcules 5 and they are placed 
Tanzy, which it refembles alfo in Divifion, | 02 an oblong and fomewhat conic Receptacle 5 
| and feparated by a Kind of filmy Scales. 
and a general Form. | : 7 
The Stalk is round, upright, not jointed; |. The Clafs of the Plant is feen in the Coa- 
ftriated and covered with a light greyifh Down. | lefcence of the Buttons into this cylindrick 
It is red toward the Ground, but in the up- Form: it is the Mark of the Syngenefious Tribe. 
And as the Seeds under the tubular Flofcules 
per Part of a whitifh green. ee ae 
The Leaves on this are numerous and very | ripen as well as thofe with the female, the 
Subdivifion to which it belongs is that of the 
Polygamia fuperflua. 
RP A RS RRR ANE RANTS A Er 
row, and pinnated. The Pinna are very dif- 
tinét, though clofe placed; and, though they 
are not divided again down to the Rib, as in 
the radical Leaves, they are yet deeply and ele- 
gantly indented. | \ 
The Flowers terminate the Stalk in a large 
irregular Umbell, and their Colour is fome- 
times white; but properly, and always when | 
the Plant is well managed, a delicate pale 
Crimfon. 
- As the general Umbell is compofed of many 
{mall Flowers, each Flower is in the fame 
Manner compofed of many Flofcules arranged 
in a common Cup. This is of an oval but 
fomewhat oblong Form, and is compofed of 
numerous oval Scales, pointed and placed on 
one another as Tiles. , 
The Flofcules in each Flower are of two 
Kinds, tubular and ligulated: the tubular form 
Culture of this ACHILLA@A. 
The Plant is a Native of many Parts of 
Europe, nor is limited to thofe in warmer 
Latitudes, but it flourifhes beft in them; and 
naturally affects a loofe, deep, and not too rich 
Soil. | 
To raife it in Perfection in the Garden we 
muft copy this. ) 
The Seeds ripen freely with us, and fhould 
be fav’d with Care, hardened on a Shelf, and 
kept in Bags till Spring. 
Let them be fown upon a Piece of common 
Ground in the Nurfery; and when they rife, 
thinned, weeded, and watered. 
In May five or fix of the fineft Plants fhould 
be taken up, and brought into the Garden. 
They will not flower the fame Year; but their 
the Difk, and have compleat male and female | Leaves are very handfome, and they will fuc- 
Organs of Impregnation; the ligulated are a | ceed better when they have only this one Re- 
Kind of Rays in the Verge, which have only | move than if they had more. To improve 
female. them to the utmoft the Mould fhould be dug 
The tubular Flofcules have a Rim cut into | out where they are to ftand in the Garden, 
_ five expanded Segments. The ligulated Flofcules | and fome frefh Pafture Earth put in its Place. 
of the Verge are broad, expanded, and cut into They will flower the fucceeding Summer, 
three Parts at the Top, the middle one of which and remain good three or four Years, but at 
is fmaller than the others. | the End of that Time it is’ beft to have a 
| In the tubular Flofcules are placed the Fi- | frefh Succeffion; the Seed of which fhould be 
-Jaments;. they are five, and they have ob- | faved from the fecond Year’s Flowering, for 
long Buttons which coalefce and form a Cy- | they never are fo perfect from any other. In alk 
lindes, with a fingle flender Style of the Length | States the Plant is of diftinguifhed Elegance. 
4 VARIEGATED ROUGH SILENE. 
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Pi. 56, 
Fig. 4. 
Our Student is to be informed, that under 
the generical Name Lychnis, the earlier Au- 
thors had brought together a great Number 
of Plants utterly diftinct from one another in 
thofe Charaéters on which the Eftablifhment 
of Genera depend. This Linnaus faw: he 
reformed the Abufe, and from one imagi- 
nary Genus, Lychnis, made many real Genera 
general Name Lychuis, and the Diftinction is taken 
from the peculiar Roughnefs of the Leaves and. 
| Variegation of the Flowers. Dopon vs called 
it, Lychnis birfuta minor flore variegato, a Name 
moft others have adopted. Linnus, refering 
it to his new Genus Silene, calls it Silene, petals in~ 
tegerrimis fubrotundis , fruttibus ereciis alternis: Si- 
lene, with rounded and undivided Petals, and 
with ereét Seed-veffels in alternate Order on 
the Stalks. 
all truly diftinét. 
One of thefe is the Si/ene, to which the ele- 
. gant and fingular little Plant, here defcribed, The Root is flight, oblong, and hung with 
belongs. a few Fibres. | 
It is mentioned by the others under the : 2 The 
