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will come up, fomc of which may the Bay-leaf. The Inhabitants of 



be planted in Pots, that they may the Iflands have given it the Name 



be fhekered the following Winter ; of Hop-tree, from fome Refem- 



and others may be planted in warm blance, as they fuppofe, the Bladders 



Borders, where, in mild Winters, of this Tree have to the Hop. In 



they will Hand very well ; but, in feveral of the Gardens in Europe, 



fevere Winters, they will not live in where this Plant has been preferved, 



the open Air. If the Seeds of this they have been (hewn for the true 



Plane are not fown in the Autumn, Tea, to which it has no Affinity ; 



they rarely grow. but it ferves to amufe Perfons who 



DODON j£A. have little Knowlege in Plants. 



The Characlers are ; The Seeds of this Tree are fre- 



The Empalement of the Flower is of quently brought from America ; and 



one Leaf which is cut into three oval the Plants come up very freely, 



Segments : there is no Petal to the when the Seeds are fown upon a 



Flower ; but in the Centre of the Em- good Hot bed ; and the Plants will 



palement is fituatcd a three-cornered make great Progrefs the firft Year ; 



Pointal, attended by eight Jhort Sta- but are very fubjeel: to decay the 



mina : the Fointal afterward be- firft Winter, efpecially if they are 



comes an inflated Pod, having three treated too tenderly : therefore they 



Corners or Wings; and is divided in- mould be hardened by degrees in the 



to three Cells, each containing one or Summer ; and if they are placed in 



two round hard Seeds. a moderate Stove in Winter, they 



We know but one Species of this will fucceed better than in a greater 



Plant at prefent, which has been Heat. 



long preferved in fome curious Gar- DOG's -TOOTH. Vide Dens 



de»s of Plants ; and defcribed under Canis. 



the Title of Triopteris, by Dr. Fluke- DOG-WOOD. Vide Cornus. 



net; and afterward, by Father DORIA. Vide Solidago &. 



Flumier, under that of Staphyloden- Othonna. 



drox, to which Genus he referrM it DORONICUM, Leopards- bane, 



from the Similitude of the Fruit ; The Characlers are ; 



but as it differs from that in the It hath an intricate knotted Root : 



Flower, Dr. Linnaus has conilituted the Leaves are produced alternately on 



the Genus by this Name, in Honour the Branches : the Stalks are a little 



to Remhertius Dodonaus, a famous branched: the Flowers (which grow 



Botanift. on the Tops of the Stalks) are radiated 



Dodonjea. Lin. Hart. Cliff, like the greater Starvjort : the Half - 



Hop tree, vvlgo. florets, in the Dijk of 'the Flower, are 



This Plant is a Native of the trifid: the Cup of the Flovjer is ex- 



warm Parts of America, where it panded, and cut into many Parts ol- 



grows to the Height of eighteen or nmji to the Bottom, and is not fcaly j 



twenty Feet : the Branches general*- but each Jingle Segment is in the Form 



ly grow erect, and are garni filed of a Dijk. 



with Leaves, in Shape fomevvhat The Species are ; 



like thofe of the Bay- tree, but nar- - i. Doronicum radice fcorpii, 



rower; and qf a light-green Colour, C. B. Scorpion-rooted Leopards- 



iu;i of Veins, and not fo thick as banc, 



Do; 



