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If this Plant is kept in the Stove, 

 it will continue flowering great 

 Part of the Year, and will alfo pro- 

 duce good Seeds : but if it is expo- 

 fed in the open Air, it will not flower, 

 but in July and Auguji ; and thefe 

 never produce Seeds, akho' the 

 Roots will live abroad, if they are 

 planted in a warm Situation : this 

 Sort loves Warmth and Moifture. 



The twenty-fourth Sort is a Na- 

 tive of the Cape of Good Hope, from 

 whence it was firlt brought to fome 

 curious Gardens in Holland, and 

 fome Years fince was in feveral of 

 the Englijh Gardens ; but was loft 

 for fome Years, and hath been lately 

 retrieved. This hath a large tube- 

 rous Root, in Shape like the Cy- 

 clamen : the Leaves are produced 

 in Clutters upon fingle Fooitalks 

 from the Root, and fpread on the 

 Surface of the Ground, as do thofe 

 of the Cyclamen : the Flowers grow 

 in a long Spike upon a naked Stem 

 arifing from the Root, having (len- 

 der long Footllalks : thefe are fmall, 

 of a greenifh Colour at firft, but af- 

 terward change white : there is no 

 great Beauty in the Flowers of this 

 Plant ; but as the Leaves come out 

 in the Autumn, and remain green all 

 thi Winter, i^ makes an agreeable 

 Variety amongft other Exotic Plants, 

 during that Seafon. This requires 

 no otner Culture but to plant the 

 Roots in frem light Earth in Pots ; 

 and in Winter they mult be placed 

 in a Green-houfe, or an airy Glafs- 

 cafe, with Ficoides, and other Plants 

 of the fame Country where, if they 

 are protected from Froft, they will 

 require no artificial Warmth. In 

 Summer they muft be expos'd with 

 other Exotic Plants; but after the 

 Leaves decay, the Roots fhould not 

 have too much Wet, left it rot 

 them. 



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ORNITHOPODIU1VT, BirdV 

 foot. 



The Charatiers are ; 



It hath a papilionaceous Flower; 

 out of whofe Empalement rifes the 

 Pointal, which afterward becomes an 

 hooked jointed Pod, for the mofi part 

 waved, containing in each "Joint one 

 roundijh Seed : to which mujl be add- 

 ed, That feveral Pods grow together 

 in fuch a manner as to refemble the 

 Foot of a Bird. 



The Species are; 



i. Ornithopodium radice tu» 

 hercttlis nodofa, C. B. P. Bird's- 

 foot with a knobbed Root. 



z. Ornithopodium majus. C, 

 B. P. The greater Bird's foot. 



3. Gun it mop odium fcorpioides, 

 f liquet comprtfja. T. Caterpiller 

 Bird's- foot, with ailar. Pod. 



4. Ornithopodium portulac<£ 

 fclio. Tourn. Bird's - foot with a 

 Purflane-leaf. 



Thefe Plants are propagated by 

 fowing their Seeds in the Spring up- 

 on a Bed of frem light Earth, where 

 they are to remain (for they ieldoro. 

 do well when they are tranfplanted); 

 and, when the Plants come up, they 

 muft be carefully cleared from 

 Weeds; and where they arc too clofe, 

 fome of the Plants mould be pulled 

 out, fo as to leave the remaining 

 ones about ten Inches afunder. In 

 June thefe Plants will flower, and the 

 Seeds will ripen in Auguji. There 

 is no great Beauty in them ; but, 

 for the Variety of their jointed Pod.% 

 they are prefer v'd by fome curious 

 Perfons in their Pleafure- gardens 5 

 where, if their Seeds are fown in 

 Patches in the Borders, each Sort 

 diftinclly by itfelf, and the Plants 

 thinn'd, leaving only two at each 

 Patch, they will require no farther 

 Care ; and will add to the Variety, 

 especially where the Snail and Ca- 

 terpiller 



