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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfeétions 
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re WALT E INDIAN HELIOTROPE. 
a AHE general Afpect of this Plant never fails 
‘O&tob. 
to command the Attention of the Cu- 
‘ious; though it has nothing of the 
Appearance of a Blsinet 
The old Writers could not ‘know it, for 
*tis Native only of the Weft-Indies, but all 
who have written on the Plants of that Part 
of the World, have mentioned it. Sir Hans 
Stoan calls it, Heliotropium maritimum minus folia 
glauco flore albo : Glaucous-leav’d, -white-flower’d, 
{mall Sea Heliotrope. 
Linn 2vs, Heliotropium foliis lanceolato-linearibus 
glabris aveniis [picts conjugatis: narrow-leav’d He- 
Pl. 60. 
Fig. 1, 
liotrope with conjugate Spikes, and {mooth vein- | 
lefs Leaves. 
The Root is compofed of numerous white 
Fibres connected to a fmall Head: 
. The Stalk is rounds fmooth, of a greyith 
sreen, and ten Inches high. ° 
The Leaves ftand in Pairs 5 and: they are 
oblong, narrow, undivided at the Edges, ob- 
tufe, fmooth, flefhy, and- of a blueifh gréen. 
The Flowers terminate the Stalk in a double 
Spike, turning down and curling back each Way; 
and numerous others rife from the Bofoms of the 
Leaves. They are {mall, white; and at Evening 
have a very fragrant Scent. 
Each has its dike Cup, form’d of one Leaf 
tubular at the Bafe, and cut into five {mall Seg- 
ments at the Edge. 
2. VIRGINIAN 
This is a very delicate and pretty Plant ; 
Pl. 60. unlike its European Kindred, for they are robuft 
Fig. 2. and rough, but fuperior to:them all in Beauty. 
Till the Difcovery of America, it could not be 
known to the botanical Writers, for it is not 
Native any where elfe; but fince that Time 
moft have named it. Morison calls it, Sym- 
phitum five pulmonaria non maculata folis glabris acu- 
minatis flore patulo cwruleo, a Name frit given it 
by PLUKENET. 
Numb, LX. 
The Flower is formed of oné Petal: this O&ob. 
is tubular at the Bafe, and at the Rim i8 cut into —. : 
five obtufe Segments; and the opening at the 
Top of the Tube is covered by five convergent 
Scales. , 
The Filarnents are five: they are very fhort; 
they ftand in the Mouth of the F lower, and have 
| {mall covered Buttons: 
The Style is fingle; and fou naked Seeds fol 
low: the Cup is their only Defence. 
The five Filaments and fingle Style refer this. 
to the Pentandria Monogynia of Linnéus, his 
fifth Clafs and its firft Section. 
Culture of ye HeEtLiorrope. 
It is a Native of the warmer Parts of the W of 
Indies, and lives on the fandy Shores an Annual. . 
This directs our Culture. Let Seeds be pro- 
cured from its native Country, and fown in a 
Pot of fome light Compoft, mixed with one third - 
Part Sand, and wetted with a little Brine. 
Let the Pot be fet up to the Rim in a Bark 
Bed; and when the young Plants are three Inches 
high, let them be tranfplanted into feparate Pots. 
They muft be watered and thaded till they have 
taken Root, and afterwards brought into the 
Stove. They will ripen Seeds here with good Ma- 
nagement : but the beft Plants are produced from 
thofe brought from the native Place. 
PULMONARIA 
Linn us, more correctly, Pulmonaria calycibus 
abbreviatis foliis lanceolatis obtufiufeculis: obtufe 
lanceolate-leav’d Pulmonaria with fhort Cups, 
The Root is long, and hung with many Fibres, 
The firft Leaves are broad, oblong, and. 
{mooth, they rife without F ootitalks, and are 
of a very fine green. | 
The Stalk is eight Inches high, ald i is tender, 
and of a pale green. 
The Leaves ftand alternately upon it, and 
8S) they 
