Octob. 
row’d; it ftands underneath the Receptacle of the 
Flower, and from it rifes a Style equal'in Length 
-and ThicknefS to the Filaments, with a  fmall 
three-parted Head. hile cs eC 
The Seed-veffel when ripe is oval, and forin’d 
of three Valves; it is divided within into three 
Cells, and in each are many Seeds. | 
‘The Clafs and Place of the Plant are feen di- 
ftin@ly in the fix Filaments, and fingle Style: 
the firft refer it to the Hexandria, the fecond to 
- | more Air. 
the Monog yuia. 
Culture of this AMARYLLIS. 
It is mauve of Athiopia, and lives there in loofe 
and warm Soils; with us it will require the 
Choice of fuch a Compoft as refembles that kind 
of Earth, and all the Affiftance of additional 
Warmth. | oa 
- The Roots will bear to be kept out of the 
Ground a confiderable Time, when taken up at 
a proper Seafon. They were thus firft brought 
into Holland, and may from thence, or even from 
their native Country, be brought hither. | 
_ When they are received, which fhould be early 
in Summer, a Compoft fhould be prepared for 
them of fome of the light Kinds, from one of 
‘the Heaps made up for other Purpofes, with a 
fifth Part of rotted Dung, from an old Melon- 
RG eras : 
A GOMPLEAT BODY | 
_ As many Pots muft be got ready as there are OGtab, 
Roots; fome loofe Gravel muft be thrown into. 
the Bottom, and over this two Inches of the 
Mould: upon this the Roots muft be placed, 
and the Pot filled up; fo that it may be cover’d 
two Inches. 
The Pots muft then be fet under a Frame; 
and the Earth at Times moiften’d. The Shoot 
will appear in five or fix Weeks, and after this 
they muft be water’d more largely, and have 
When this has advanced to fome Height, théy 
; muft be removed into the Stove, where they will 
flower in perfect Beauty. : | 
_ The Flowers do not come forth all together; — 
but in a long Succeffion, fo that one Plant wilt 
be three Weeks from the firft Flower to the 
Decay. = | : 
After this the Pots muft be every Spring 
refrefh’d with fome new Mould, the Top. of 
that in the Pot being taken off for that Pur- 
pofe; and once in two Years the Roots mutt be 
taken up, and the whole Quantity turn’d out. 
Its Place muft be fupply’d with freth Compoft, 
the Roots muft be clear’d, and their Off-fets 
taken away, and planted in other Pots, to bring 
them to a Condition’ of flowering ; and this Way 
the Plant will 
be propagated in tolerable Quan- 
tity. | : 
Pl ek. 
Fig. 6. 
~ {anthemum. 
mak 
_ This elegant fhrubby Plant is another of thofe 
Additions to our Collections of Exoticks, which 
we owe to the Dutch; who brought it from the 
hotteft Parts of Africa. The. old Authors were 
not acquainted with it, and thofe among the later 
who have defcribed it, fcarce knew till Linn 2us 
by what Name to call it: Votxamer rank’d it 
among the Chryfanthemums, adding, Africanum fru- 
tefcens. fpinofum ; fhrubby,: prickly African Chry- 
* CoMMELINE, who faw it was like the Chry/an- 
| themum, but not the fame, called it Chryfanthe- 
moides, and added,. Ofteo/permum Africanum, odo- 
ratum [pinofum &8 vifcofum: prickly and clammy, 
fcented, hard feeded African Chryfanthemoides. 
Linn us finding feveral other Plants, as well 
as this, though refembling the Chry/anthemum, to 
differ in effential Characters both from that and 
all the other Genera of Plants, put them together 
under this generical Name, Offeo/permum; he adds 
as the Diftin¢tion of this Species, Spinis ramofis 
_ Ofteofpermum, with branch’d Spires. : 
The Root is divided into many Parts, and 
hung with a Multitude of Fibres. | 
The Stalk is round, upright, woody, and a 
Foot and half high, divided into numerous 
Branches, and thick fet with. Leaves. 
- The main Stalk is brown; the Branches and 
young Shoots are paler, and they are often ting’d 
with red. 
_ The Spines or Prickles have a very fingular 
6 OP RAE MAG Y cS TE OS PERM UM; 
Situation, they are feen no where but on the Top 
of the PYant: the Extremities of the Shoots 
divide into them, and they are firm and branch’d, 
three or four Points proceeding from one com- 
mon Bafe. Thefe terminate thofe Branches on 
which there are no Flowers. When a Flower 
rifes at the End, there often are.none, at the moft 
only fome very flight ones on the Sides. of the 
Stalk. esi 
The young Shoots are ufually a little downy. 
‘The Leaves are “humerous, and they ftand 
without the leaft Order or Regularity upon the 
Branches. ‘They have no Footttalks. They are 
oblong, deeply and irregularly notch’d, fomewhat 
in the Bucks-horn Manner, and fharp pointed ; 
and they are of a firm Subftance, and faint 
ereen. 
The young Shoots and all the Leaves are 
| clammy to the Touch, and ftrongly fcented ; 
they feem to fweat out a foft Refin, and the Smell 
is ftrongly refinous, with a peculiar Flavour not 
unlike that of Balfam Capivi. edge 
The Flowers are large, of a very elegant Struc- 
ture, and yellow : they terminate the Branches, 
and have often the Appearance of growing from 
the {woln End of the Spines, which are lof in 
their Bafes, 
The Structure of the Flower demands the 
greate{t Attention of the botanical Student ; ’tis 
of the Syagenefious Kind, and they are all of cu- 
rigus Cenftruction, but none more than this.- 
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