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muft be frequently refrefhed with 

 Water, during the Summer-feafon ; 

 but in Winter, when the Leaves are 

 decayed, it Ihould be given to them 

 more fparingly : with this Manage- 

 ment thefe Plants may not only be 

 maintained, but may be alfo increaf- 

 ed by parting their Roots in the 

 Spring, before the Plants put out 

 their Leaves. 



DORYCNIUM, Shrub Trefoil. 

 The Cbara&ers are ; 



7he Empalement of the Flower is 

 of one Leaf, tubulous, and cut into 

 Jive equal Segments : the Flower is 

 papilionaceous, the Standard being 

 vertically heart-Jhaped, the Wings 

 being long, and the Keel Jhort: after 

 the Flower is pajl, the Pointal changes 

 to a round-pointed Pod, opeiting both 

 Ways, havi?ig one Cell, in which are 

 lodged one or two Seeds. 

 The Species are ; 



t. Dorycnium foliis digit at is 

 fejplibus. Lin. Hort. Cliff. Shrub 

 Trefoil of Mor.tpclier, with divided 

 Leaves growing clofe to the Branches. 



2. Dorycnium foliis fimplicib#s 

 cvatis. Flor. Leyd. Montpelier Tre- 

 foil, with fingle oval Leaves. 



The firrt Sort is a low Shrub, 

 which rifes to the Height of four or 

 five Feet ; and has many irregular 

 Branches, which are very flender, 

 and thinly garnilhed with fmall di- 

 vided Leaves. The Flowers are 

 white, fmall, and produced in fmall 

 Clutters at the End of the Shoots, 

 which have little Beauty ; fo is not 

 much cultivated in England; being 

 only preferved for Variety in thofe 

 Gardens, where other Exotic Plants 

 are kept. 



This Shrub will endure the Cold 

 of our ordinary Winters very well 

 in the open. Air, being never injured 

 but by fevere Frolt : it mould be 

 planted on a dry Soil, and in a Ihel- 

 tered Situation, where it will flower, 



and ripen Seeds every Year : it may 

 be eafily propagated by fowing the 

 Seeds on a Bed of frefti light Earth in 

 Spring ; or if the Seeds are permit- 

 ted to fall, the Plants will come up 

 the following Spring ; and may be 

 tranfplanted into a Nurfery, or where 

 they are to remain the Autumn fol- 

 lowing. 



Thefecond fort is an annual Plant; 

 the Seeds of this muft be fown upon 

 a moderate Hot-bed in the Spring ; 

 and when the Plants come up, they 

 muft be removed into a frelh Hot- 

 bed, to bring the Plants forward, 

 otherwife they will not perfect their 

 Seeds in England. There is no great 

 Beauty in this Plant j but it is pre- 

 ferved in Botanic Gardens for the 

 fake of Variety. 



DOUGLASSIA. 



This Plant was fo named by the 

 late Dr. William Houftoun, in Ho- 

 nour to Dr. fames Dougla/s, an emir 

 nent Phyfician at London. 

 The Characlers are ; 



It hath an anomalous Flower, con- 

 fining of one Leaf, whofe lower Fart 

 is tubulous, but the upper Fart is ex- 

 panded, and divided into five Seg- 

 ments : but the Tube is Jkut at the Top, 

 out of which arife Jour long Stamina, 

 two fpreading on each Side the Coral ; 

 and two Jhort ones, fpreading on each 

 Side between the longer: the Fruit, 

 which is roundijh, is divided into two 

 Parts, which contain two Seeds. 



There is but one Sort of this Plant 

 at prefent known ; viz. 



Douglassia frutefcens & fpinofa, 

 ligujiri folio, fore albo. Houjl. Paliu- 

 ro ajfinis liguftrifolia fpinofa, flore 

 mcnopetab difformi, frudu feco jub- 

 rotundo. Sloan. Cat. Jam. Shrubby 

 prickly Douglaflia, with a Privet- 

 leaf, and a white Flower. 



This Shrub grows in great Plenty 

 in the Woods and Savannas in Ja- 

 maica and Barbadoi j where it rifes 



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