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- Oob, Linn aus has named, the Sleep of Plants, and 
& COMPUTEA TT BODY 
will be explained at large in a feparate Article at | the Vexillum. 
the End of this Number. 
The Flowers cover the whole Head of the 
Plant; they are fmall, but very -confpicuous ; 
The Carina is fwelled at the Bottéin, pointed 
at the Top, and turned upwatd: it is of a yel- 
lower brown than the reft of the Flower, and its 
they are collected in little Heads, ufually four in | Point is of a btight yellow. °Tis this, which 
each, and thefe are placed on long naked Foot- | fhewing itfelf between the Tops of thé two Ale, 
{talks ; they are of the papilionaceous Form, ‘and | forms that golden Spot in the Flower. : 
their Colour feen at a Diftance is a dark brown, The Filaments are ten: nine are clufter’d into 
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nearly black. 
When examined nearer, there is feen in the 
Vexillum, which ftands loofe and fingle, a Tinge 
of yellowifh; and there is between the Points of 
the Ala, a {mall Spot-of the brighteft gold yel- 
low. This is the more confpicuous from the 
deep Colour of the reft of the Flower ; and there 
is a Singularity in it very pleafing, 
The Student examining the Flower, will find 
it truly papilionaceous. Its Cup is hollow, form- 
ed of oné Piece, a little fwoln at the Bafe, and 
divided at the Verge into five Segments: thefe 
are narrow, and fharp pointed; and two of them 
form a kind of upper, and the other three a lower 
Lip. 
The Vexillum of the Flower is oval, turned 
back, and hollow’d at the Bafe. | 
The Ale are oblong and broad, and they clofe 
one Body, and the other is feparate ; this fhews 
the Plant to be one of the Diadelpbia decandria, 
Culture of this Lorvs, 
It is a Green-houfe Plant, and is beft raifed 
from Seed. : : 
This fhould be fown in Spring, upon a Hot. 
bed, among other Kinds. When the Plants are 
three Inches high, they fhould be tranfplanted 
into Pots of fome light rich Compoft, and thefé 
muft be fet in a Hot-bed again to promote their 
taking root. 
After this the Plants muft be inured to the. 
Air, and kept out all Summer in a warm Place ; 
at Autumn they muft be houfed with the others, 
They may be propagated by Cuttings, bug 
the Way from Seed: raifes the finett Plants. 
4 ACUTABULATED HOREHOUND,. 
_ This is a very fingular Plant, diftinguifhable , Piece, wide expanded at the Rim, and when full 
4 by its white Colour, and wide Cups, out of which | grown, very large: they are of a paler Colour 
the Flowers appear; {mall and inconfiderable. The | 
‘Wniters on Plants have long known it: they have many Indentings at the Edge, the principal An- 
than the reft of the Plant, and they have a preat 
called it from the Leaves which refemble thofe of gles of which are rounded. 
the Cretic Dittany, Pfeudodiffamnus; and from the’ The Flowers are of a pale Crimfon, with fome 
‘Cups, which when full grown, have fomething | Mixture of white. 
the Afpect of thofe of the Molucca, acetabulatum, 
and Molucca fimile, 
molucce. Linnaeus, Marrubium colycum limbis 
tubo longioribus membranaceis angulis majoribus ro- 
tundatis: horehound, with the Verge of the Cups 
exceeding the tubular Part in Length, and their 
principal Angle rounded. 
nected to a finall Head, 
a Foot high, and ‘tolerably upright : their natu- 
ral and proper Colour is purple, but they are 
covered with a white downy Matter, and often 
they are green or pale from ill Management. 
Fach Flower is formed of one Petal, and is of 
the labiated Kind. | | 
The opening is long and tubular. The upper 
Lip is undivided, upright, and hollowed. The 
lower Lip is broader; it is turned back, and 
lightly divided into three Segments: the middle 
one of which is broader than the other two, and 
is nip’d at the End, 
The Root is compofed of many Fibres con- | “The Filaments are four ; they are placed under 
Cover of the upper Lip, and two are longer than 
the others. 
The Seeds are. four, and they ftand naked in 
the Cup. : : 
_ The two longer Filaments fhew the Plant one 
| of the Didynamia, and the naked Seeds’ place it 
among the Gymnofpermia. 
The Stalks are: numerous, rigid, hard,. about 
The Leaves ftand in Pairs, and are fmall, 
roundifh, and irregularly terminated at the Edges: 
they are of a whitith Colour, thick covered with 
a woolly Matter. , : | 
TheF lowers furtound the Stalks in thick Clufters 4" 
at all the Joints ; but the Cups ‘in which they are 
placed are much: more confpicuous than they : 
thefe are tubular at the’ Bafe, formed of one 
J 
Culture of this Horenounp. 
The Plant is a Native of the Archipelago Iands, 
and lives naturally in the Cracks of Rocks, where 
there is a little good Mould. This we fhould 
imitate. The beft Method is by burying fome 
Chippings 
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in the uppet Part: they dre fornething Miortet thai O@ob. 
