A COMPLEAT BODY 
O&ob. 
tandria of Lawes; ‘and the two Heads to the 
Digynia, the fifth Clafs of that Author, and its 
fecond Section, 
‘We have occafionally obferv’d, that where there: 
are no Filaments, the Buttons are to be counted 
- jn their Place; and where there are no Styles, 
the Stigmata or Heads. 
or This Plant fhews an 
Inftance of both Cafes. 7 
Culture of this ASCLEPIAS. 
It is a Native of the warmer Parts of Africa, 
where it, lives freely in a dry fandy Soil, expofed 
to the full Sun: but though it bears this Heat, 
and Barrennefs, ’tis not the Soil or Expofure 
moit fuited to its thriving. 
“When it happens to fall into the Side of a 
Thicket, where there is Shelter, and a better Mould, 
it fhews more Vigour and more Beauty. Ac- 
cording to thefe Differences it will produce Flowers 
of deeper or paler Colour in a great Variety ; and 
we fee fome confiderable Change in them in this 
Refpect, but it is in the State svhevein we have 
reprefented them they are moft elegant. | 
The Gardener has his Choice sf raifing it from 
Seed, or by Cuttings: but there is no Advan« 
tage in the raifing it from the Seed, Which is thé - 
more tedious Way ; and the Cuttings take root fo 
eafily, that it is better to depend on them. 
The beft Seafon fot planting thefe Cuttings 1 is 
“Fune, and they fhould haye the Advantage of a 
Hot-bed. In this let them be kept till they have 
takeri good root ; and then let them be taken ups 
and planted feparately in Pots, of che of the 
light Compofts. 
They fhould then be fet in the Hot- bed agains 
and. fhaded from the Noon-day Sun, They 
fhould alfo be water’d every Evening ; and when 
they are well eftablifh’d, they fhould be more 
perfectly harden’d by keeping open the Glaffes, 
Ottob. 
and then brought out among the Greenhoufe | 
Plants. : 
_ They muft be early in Autumn taken into the 
Houfe, and remoyed into larger Pots, as they 
increafe in Size; always preferving the whole Ball 
from the former Pot about them, and triming 
the Fibres that hang from its Edges. 
They will thus grow to fix or éight Foot high, 
and flower as well as in their native Country. 
4 CORYMBOUS LOBATED 
This is a véry elegant Shrub, brought long 
fince from North America into our Gardens ; and 
for its Singularity as well as Beauty, very worthy 
to be preferved in all ColleGtions. Thofe who 
firft faw it flower, greatly miftook its proper 
Genus: they refer’d it to the Evonymus, or 
fpindle Tree; though neither Flower nor Fruit 
had any true Refemblance to that Kind. 
CoMMELINE Calls it Euonymus Virginiana, ribefit 
folio, capfulis eleganter bullatis: Currant-leav’d Vir- 
ginian Evonymus, with elegantly bullated Fruit. 
Linnzevus refer’d it to the Spirea, and Van 
Royen follows him: he calls it Spirea folits 
lobatis, ferratis, corymbis terminalibus: \obated, 
and ferrated leav’d Spirea, with Clufters of 
Flowers terminating the Branches. 
The Root is divided into many Parts, and 
hung with numerous Fibres. 
The Stem is cover’d with a pale brown 
~ Bark. 
The Branches are numerous, 
and oreyith ; 
the extream Shoots are of a freth green, ting’d | 
with red, and they have four Ridges which give | 
them a {quare Afpect, 
The Leaves are placed in a fcatter’d Manner 
| upon the Branches, and are broad, and of a pale 
green: they have long green Footftalks, and they 
are divided in an bregélar Manner into three Parts, 
ufually, fome into five, and others fearce at. all, 
The Divifions are deep, but not to the Bafe; and 
they are all notch’d round the Edges. 
The Name of Curranit-leav’d is hot given amifs 
to this Shrub: we have obferv’d, that all the 
Leaves are not alike, but the Generality of them 
very much refemble thofe of the Currant Buth, 
: | 
SPIRAA 
The Flowers are numerous and elegant; they 
ate {mall in themfelves, but they ftand in great 
Tufts; after the manner of Umbells, at the Ex- 
tremities of all the Branches; and they are white, 
with a light and delicate blufh of Crimfon. 
Each Flower has its feparate Footftalk, which 
is of a faint green, ting’d with red. 
The Cup is form’d of a fingle Leaf, and is 
lightly divided into five Segments. The Bafe is 
plain, and the Segments are acute. 
rounded, but fomewhat oblong Petals, which are 
inferted into the Cup. 
"The Filaments are numerous, upright, and in- 
ferted into the Cup; they ftand clufter’d toge- 
ther, and they are crown’d with roundifh But- 
tons. 
The Rudiments are three, they are crown’d 
the Styles are equal in Length to the Filaments, 
fo that their Heads thew themfelves diftinétly in 
the Flower. 
The Seed-veffels are oblong, comprefied, and 
pointed; they are equal in number to the Rudi- 
ments, and each contains a few fmall Seeds. 
The Number of Filaments, with their Infertion 
into the Cup, fhews the Plant to be one of the 
Icofandria, and the three Styles refer it to the 
Trig ynia. 
This is its abfolute Place as a Plant; but as a 
Species of Spirea, Linnavs has placed it among 
the Pentagynia ; the Generality of the others have 
five Styles. Indeed this Genus is too compre- 
five to be juft, he ranges under it the Spirea, 
The Body of the Flower is form’d of five 
with fo many Styles, and thefe with thick Heads: 
of others the F2ipendula, Ulmaria, and Aruncus, 
though 
