Ihort time, it will cover a Urge Scat : 

 this Plant produces in America great 

 Quantities of large fragrant yellow 

 Plowers, which are each of them 

 fucceeded by three large angular 

 Seeds. It is a very tender Plant with 

 us, and cannot be preferved but in 

 warm Stoves through the Winter ; 

 nor hath it as yet produced any 

 Flowers in England, that I know of : 

 it rifes eafily from the Seeds, if they 

 are fown in an Hot- bed, and will 

 grow to a great Length in one Sum- 

 mer ; and although I have fometimes 

 preferved it for two Years, and the 

 Plants have fpread to a greatLength, 

 yet I could never perceive any at- 

 tempt to flower. 



The twelfth and thirteenth Sorts 

 are annual ; but thefe do not climb 

 as the others : the Seeds cf thefe 

 Plants may be fown in open Borders 

 'in March or April, where they will 

 come up very well ; and may be af- 

 terwards transplanted to a greater 

 Diihnce, to adorn the Borders of a 

 Pleafure- garden ; but thefe do better 

 when they are fown where they are 

 to remain. Thefe Plants trail upon 

 the Ground, if they are not fupport- 

 ed,and produce their beautiful Flow- 

 ers through moil of the Summer- 

 months. 



The fourteenth Sort is an abiding 

 Plant, which with us grows upright 

 to be three or four Feet high : the 

 ^Branches arefet very thick. with long 

 narrow filver-colour'd Leaves, which 

 makt a fine Appearance all theYear; 

 and the Flowers grow upon theTops 

 of the Branches in an Umbel, which 

 are white. Thefe Flowers are fome- 

 times fucceeded by angular Seeds 

 like the other Kinds : it may be pro- 

 pagated by planting Cuttings in any 

 of the Summer-months, obferving 

 to water and fnade them until they 

 have taken Root ; at which time 

 they muft be planted in Pots filled 



with frem fandy Soil, and muft be 

 fheltered in Winter from the Frofts, 

 but require open free Air at all times 

 when the Weather is mild. 



The fifteenth Sort is a perennial 

 Plant, which increafes greatly by its 

 creeping Roots : this grows erect 

 about eight or ten Inches high, and 

 produces Flowers fomewhat like 

 thofe of our leffer wild Kind ; but 

 feldom produces good Seeds with us ; 

 tho' the Plant may be abundantly 

 multiplied by parting the Roots : it 

 is very hardy, and loves a light 

 Soil. 



COMYZA, Flea-bane. 

 The Characters are ; 



It hath undivided Leaves, which, 

 for the moji part, are glutinous, and 

 have a Jlrong Scent : the Cup of the 

 Flower is, for the moji part, fca/y, 

 and of a cylindrical For?n : the Flower 

 is compofed of many Florets, which are 

 fucceeded by Seeds, which have a 

 d^wny Subftance adhering to them : to 

 which Notes fould be added, The 

 Leaves growing alternately ; by vjhich 

 it is diftmguijhed from Eup.itorium. 

 The Species are ; 



I. Conyza major vulgaris. C. B. 

 Common great Flea-bane. 



z. Conyza minor, fore globofo. 

 C:B. Leffer Flea-bane, with glo- 

 bular Flowers. 



3. Conyza Americana, larnii fo- 

 lio. Tourn. American Fka-bane, with 

 Leaves of the Dead-nettle. 



4. Conyza mas Thecphrafi, ma- 

 jor Dio/coridis. C. B. The greater 



Flea-bane of Diofcorides. 



5. Conyza Cretica frail co fa, fo- 

 lio molli, candidifjimo, & tomentofo. 

 Flor. Shrubby Flea-bane from Crete, 

 with foft downy white Leaves. 



6. Conyza fruticofa, cifi odore t 

 foribus pallide purpureis, Jummitati- 

 bus ramulorum infidtntibus, capitulis 

 & femine minoribus \ S loan. Cat .f am* 

 Shrubby American Flea-bane, fmell- 



