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months from their beginning to flower * . Of this plant the 
Icon was publifhed by Camerarius in his Hortus Medicus , but the 
elevation defective, and the corolla lefs exactly, tab. v : ftill worfe 
by Hernandez, page 270, chap, xn : by Bradley alfo (in his 2 d 
Decad. page 1, of fucculent plants) far from accurately, the pet ala 
of the corolla , being too large and ill fhaped, the filaments and 
cmtherce too fhort and fmall. I have given the feveral parts in pro- 
portion by fcale annexed, and the corolla in its natural fize, PI. xx. 
Fig. xli. This plant is of great ufe in America™, ferving the poor 
Indians for almoft all the necefiary purpofes of life, but in thefe 
northern climates is cultivated rather for curiofity than advantage. 
sect. iv. As to our garden and culinary plants (that we may now proceed 
Herbs, roots from fhrubs to their inferiour herbs and roots), they not only come 
and flowers. ^ ear }y u f e [ n the fpring, but with little care fubfift all the winter; 
and when pot-herbs of all kinds are deftroyed by fevere frofts in 
the more eaftern counties, the tables of the gentry in Cornwall are 
plentifully fupplied. Efculent roots alfo enjoy the mildnefs of our 
winter, and remain untouched with canker or froft till the fucce- 
daneous plants of the fpring make them lefs necefiary. I find the 
northernmoft Hundred of Stratton was remarkable, in the reign of 
Elizabeth, for its plenty of garlick ; “the countryman’s treacle, 
fays Mr. Carew n , which they vent not only in Cornwall, but in 
many other fhires.” 
Every thing that belongs to the flower-garden, and grows in any 
part of England, will thrive and flourifh here, as the late accom- 
plifhed and courteous Philip Rafhleigh Efq; of Menabilly did 
formerly manifeft, and his prefent After, Mrs. Hawkins, (widow of 
the late Reverend Dr. Hawkins of Pennans) now at Pencoit, can 
fatisfy the moft curious. Our winters are ufually fo favourable that 
they are a general encouragement, fuch few roots mifcarrying thro’ 
froft, and fpring flowers {hooting fo luxuriant. April 27, 1756, 
perceiving a number of flowers upon the ftem of a polyanthos* I 
had the curiofity to pluck off the ftalk, and found it to contain 
on it 353 flowers, fo well does this plant deferve the name of po- 
lyanthos, or the ftem with many flowers 0 . 
sect.v. Among herbaceous plants here, I will not pretend to give any 
Plants in n on-defcript •; fome, the moft ufeful, and moft pernicious which 
Hill' and ’ have reached my notice, their fites and properties, with the rare 
hedge-plants pj ants 0 p t-pj s county, publifhed by Mr. Ray, or colledted by Mr. 
* This was blown down by a ftorm February manis modus; innumeri pene funt ulus.” Hcr- 
Ii, 1758. nandez, ibid, ut fupra. 
m “ Planta hsec unica, quicquid vitse efle poteft 11 Page 118. 
neceffarium prteftare facile poffet fi efl'et rebus hu- ° Of grains, fee in chap. vii. page 46. 
Lhuyd, 
