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from whence the feeds were brought to England. 
This in its native country rifes to the height of twenty- 
five or thirty feet, with a ftrong ftem, covered with a 
fmooth bark, which in the young branches is green, 
but on the older it is of an Afh-colour ^ the root grows 
knobbed, and very thick. This, when young, is fcraped 
and ufed by the inhabitants as Horfe-radifh is in Eu- 
rope, having much the fame fharp tafte •, the branches 
are garnifhed with decompounded winged leaves ; 
thofe which are fituated at the bafe have but three 
leaves, but above, the leaves are branched out into fe- 
veral divifions, which are again divided into fmaller, 
having each live or fix pair of oval lobes, terminated 
by an odd one ^ they are of a light green, and a little 
hoary on their under fide. The flowers are produced 
in loofe bunches from the fide of the branches •, they 
are compofed of an unequal number of petals, from 
five to ten •, they have ten fhort ftamina furrounding 
the germen, which afterward turns to a long taper 
pod, including feveral angular feeds, covered with a 
thin membrane. Thefe have a flavour like the root. 
Thefe four forts are natives of warm countries, fo 
will not live through the winter in England, unlefs 
they are placed in a warm ftove, and the pots plunged 
into the tan-bed. They are propagated by feeds, but 
thofe of the two firft forts are fo hard, that unlefs they 
are foaked two or three days in water before they are 
put into the ground, or placed under the pots in the 
tan-bed to foften their covers, they will remain years 
in the ground without vegetating : when the plants 
come up, they will be fit to tranfplant in a Ihort time ; 
then they Ihould be each tranfplanted into a lmall pot 
filled with light freffi earth, and plunged into a mo- 
derate hot-bed of tanners bark, fhading them till they 
have taken freffi root ; then they mull be treated in 
the fame manner as other tender exotic plants, giv- 
ing them a large {hare of air in warm weather, and 
but little water j and when the plants have ad- 
vanced to be too tall to remain in the frames, they 
muft be removed into the bark-ftove and plunged in- 
to the hot-bed, where they will make great progrefs, 
provided they have not too much water, efpecially 
during the winter feafon, for thefe plants are very im- 
patient of moifture in cold weather. 
The fourth fort requires the fame treatment as thofe 
before-mentioned, but the feeds will grow without be- 
ing fteeped in water ; and the plants are with diffi- 
culty fhifted from one pot to another, for their roots 
are large, fleffiy, and have but few fibres ; fo that un- 
lefs great care is taken, all the earth will fall away 
from them, which often caufes their ftalks to decay 
almoft to the root, and fometimes occafions the lofs 
of the plants. This plant muft be fparingly watered 
at all times, but particularly in cold weather, when 
moifture will caufe them to rot in a fhort time. 
The fifth fort grows naturally in Canada, from whence 
the plants were brought to Paris, where it has been 
fome years cultivated ; but about fourteen years paft, 
it was firft brought to England. This, in the country 
where it naturally grows, rifes with an erecft ftem to 
the height of thirty feet or more, dividing into many 
branches, which are covered with a bluiffi Affi-colour- 
ed bark very fmooth, and garniffied with large decom- 
pounded winged leaves which are of the oval ffiape, 
very fmooth and entire, but are ranged alternate on 
the midrib ■, thefe fall off in the autumn, and new 
ones come out late in the fpring. 
There are male and female of this fort indifferent 
plants j as thefe have not as yet flowered in any of 
the Englifh gardens, fo 1 can give no farther account 
of them nor of the fruit, having never feen any of 
them. This fort lives abroad in the open air, and 
is never hurt by froft. It is propagated by cutting off 
fome of the horizontal roots, which will caufe them to 
{hoot upward, fo it may be taken from the old root, 
and 'planted in pots, whereby the plant may be mul- 
tiplied, or by fuckers from the root. It requires a 
light foil, not too moift. 
Q U N D E LI A. Tourn. Cor. 51. tab. 586. Lin. Gen. 
Plant. 828. Hacub. Vaill Ac. Reg. Scien. 1718. 
This plant was fo named by Dr. Tourneforc, in ho- 
nour of Dr. Gundelfcheimer, who found it in his tra- 
vels in company with Dr. Tourneforc in the Levant. 
The Characters are, ' 
It hath an uniform tubulous flower, compofed of many 
hermaphrodite florets , which are incirded, by leaves . 
They have but one petal which is clofled at the bottom , but 
fat ells at the top , where it is flight ly cut into five fleg- 
ments : they have five floor t hairy ^jiamina, terminated by 
long cylindrical fummits. 'The oval germen is fituated 
at the bottom of the flower , crowned by j mall fcales , fluD- 
poriing a fender Jlyle which is longer than the petal, ter- 
minated by two revolving ftigmas. The germen afterward 
becomes a roundijh Jingle feed inclofled, in the common recep- 
tacle, which is conical, and the feeds are fleparated by a 
chaffy down . 
This genus of plants is by Tournefort referred to his 
twelfth clafs, which contains the herbs with flofcu- 
lous flowers. Dr. Linnaeus ranges it in the fifth flec- 
tion of his nineteenth clafs, intitled Syngenefia Poly- 
gam ia fegregata, which includes thofe plants whofe 
flowers have a common empalernent, and each of the 
florets are included in another. 
We have but one diftind Species of this genus at 
prefent in England, viz. 
Gundelia. Lin. Sp. Plant. 814. There is no Engliffi 
title to this plant, but there are two varieties of it 
mentioned by Tournefort, which are fuppofed to 
arife from the fame feeds, as they were found grow- 
ing promifcuoufly together. Thefe are, 
1. Gundelia [T ourneflortii) Orientalis acanthi aculeati 
foliis, floribus intense purpureis, capite araneosa ianu- 
gine obfito. Tourn. Cor. 51. Eajlern Gundelia with 
prickly Bead s-breech leaves , deep purple flowers , and a 
head covered with a down like a cobweb. 
2. Gundelia ( Glabro ) Orientalis, acanthi aculeati fo- 
lio, capite glabro. Tourn. Cor. 5s. Eajlern Gundelia 
'with a prickly Bear 1 s-breech leaf, and a fmooth head. 
This plant was difeovered by Dr. Gundelfcheimer, 
in company with Tournefort, near Baibout in Arme- 
nia, but has fince been foundgrowing naturally in fe- 
veral places in the Levant, where it is generally found 
in dry ftrong land. The ftalks of this plant feldom 
rife more than a foot and a half high ; the under leaves 
are long, narrow, and fawed on their edges, their 
teeth ending in a fpine ; the other leaves are broader, 
which are irregularly flafhed to the midrib, and 
armed at the points with {harp prickles •, the ftalks 
divide upward into feveral branches, which are armed 
with leaves of the fame form, but are narrower ; and 
each is terminated by a conical head of flowers, refem- 
bling thofe of Fuller’s Thiftle, being furrounded at 
the bafe by a circle of long, narrow, prickly leaves : 
thefe heads are compofed of many hermaphrodite 
florets, which are {hut up in the fcales, each having an 
empalernent, and a germen with five ftamina furround- 
ing it •, but there are few of the feeds which ripen 
perfectly in each head, in the natural places of its 
growth. If rain happens at the time when the plants 
are in flower, the germen perifhes, which is the cafe 
with feveral other of thofe plants whofe flowers are 
colledted into heads. 
Thefe plants are propagated by feed, which ffiould 
be fown the beginning of March, in a warm dry bor- 
der of freffi, but lean earth, in the place where the 
plants are defigned to remain. When the plants come 
up, they muft be carefully cleared from weeds ; as 
they grow large, they ffiould be thinned, leaving 
the plants which are defigned to remain, about two 
feet afunder, thapthey may have room to fpread. After 
this there is no other culture required, but to keep 
them clear from weeds ; and if the froft ffiould prove 
fevere in winter, the plants fhould be covered with 
ftraw or Peas-haulm to protedl them, but this cover- 
ing muft be taken off in mild weather ^ in two years 
they will produce their flowers, when they will 
make a fine appearance amongft other hardy plants 
in the pleafure-garden. They flower in May, and 
the plants lofe their ftalks and leaves in autumn, 
but their roots will abide many years. 
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