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fmall Pot filled with light fandy 

 Earth, and placed in the Shade for a 

 Fortnight or three Weeks, giving 

 them a little Water two or three 

 times a Week ; after this if the Pots 

 arc pi urged into a very moderate 

 Hot bed, it will promote their take- 

 ing Root. 



The Cuttings of the other two 

 Sorts may be planted during any of 

 the Summer-months, obferving to 

 cut them off fome time before they 

 are planted ; but thefe may be 

 planted in an open Bed of common 

 Earth, where they will take Root, 

 and may afterward be taken up and 

 potted : but if the Cuttings of the 

 fecond Sort are permitted to remain 

 long in the full Ground, the Plants 

 will grow fo very luxuriant, as to 

 render them not only unfightly, but 

 alfo difficult to remove. 



Thefe Plants mud be houfed in 

 Winter, otherwife they cannot be 

 preferved in England : if they are 

 placed in an airy Glafs-cafe, with 

 Ficoides, Sedums, and other fuccu- 

 lent Plants, where they may be fe- 

 cured from Froft, and have as much 

 free Air as poffible in mild Wea- 

 ther, they will thrive better than in 

 a common Green- houfe, which is 

 often too damp for thefe Plants, 

 efpecially the firft and fourth Sorts, 

 which are foon injured by the 

 Damps, their Leaves growing 

 mouldy, and this often affects their 

 Stems : but the other two Sorts 

 will thrive in any good Green-houfe. 

 Thefe mull beexpofed abroad in the 

 Summer, in a iheltered Situation. 



KNAUTIA. 



This Name was applied to this 

 Plant by Dr. Linn<eus, in Honour 

 to the Memory of Dr. Cbrijiian 

 Knaut, w-ho published a Method of 

 clafiing Plants. 



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The Characlers are ; 

 // hath fever al flofcular Floweri 

 inclofed in one common cylindrical Em- 

 palement : thefe ftveralFlofcules have 

 their Petals ranged fo as to appear a 

 regular Flonver ; but each Jeparate 

 Fi'jcule is irrigular, confining of one 

 Leaf which is tubulous, but fpread 

 open at the Top f where it is cut into 

 four Segment s y the outer one being the 

 largefl : in the Bottom of each Floret 

 is jituated the Pointal, attended by 

 four long Stamina ; the Pointal after- 

 ward changes to a fingle oblong naked 

 Seed. 



There is but one Species of this 

 Plant at prefent known ; <viz. 



Knautia. Lin. Hort. Cliff This 

 Plant is very near akin to the Sca- 

 bious, under which Genus it has 

 been ranged by feveral Botanifts ; 

 but the Appearance of the Flower 

 at firft Sight being like a Lychnis, 

 Dr. Boerhaave feparated it from the 

 Scabious, and gave it the Title of 

 Lychnifcabiofa, which being a com- 

 pound Name, Dr. Linnaus has al- 

 tered it to this of Knautia. 



This is an annual Plant : the Seeds 

 of it were brought from the Arcbipe-^ 

 /ago, where it is a Native ; but 

 when it is allowed to fcatter its Seeds 

 in a Garden, it will propagate icfelf 

 in as great Plenty as if it were a Na- 

 tive of England; and thefe autumnal 

 Plants, which arife from the feat- 

 tered Seeds, will grow much ftronger 

 than thofe which are fown in the 

 Spring. All the Culture this Plant 

 requires is, to keep it clear from 

 Weeds ; for it will thrive on almoit 

 any Soil, or in any S. tuition. 



RNIGHTS-CROSS, or SCAR* 

 LET CROSS, is the Scarlet Lych- 

 nis. Vide Lychnis. 



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