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Is k fuccefiion of flowers which open daily for' a co.v 
fiderable time, fo that a few. of thefe plants may be 
allowed a place in every curious garden. 
It rifes with a branching ftalk a foot and a half 
high, having many (hart fpines which are ibft, and 
do not appear unlefs clofely viewed : the leaves are 
divided into three lobes, which are deeply jagged ai- 
riioft to the midrib j thefe jags are oppofite, and the 
fegments are obtufe ; the flowers come out at the 
joints of the (talks upon pretty long toot- (talks, hav- 
ing a double empalement, the outer being compofed 
of ten long narrow leaves, which join at their bale ; 
the inner is of one thin leaf, fwollen like a bladder, 
cut into five acute fegments at the top, having many 
longitudinal purple ribs, and is hairy ; both thefe are 
permanent, and inclofe the capfule after the flower is 
paft. The flower is compofed of five obtufe petals, 
which fpread open at the top, the lower part forming 
an open bell-fhaped flower •, thefe have dark purple 
bottoms, but are of a pale fulphur colour above, 
having the ftamina and apices joined in a column in 
the center ; after the flower is paft, the germen turns 
to a blunt capiule opening in five cells, which are 
filled with finall kidney-ftiaped feeds. It flowers in 
June, July, and Auguft, and the feeds ripen about a 
month after. This fort is propagated by feeds, which 
fhouid be fown where the plants are ciefigned to re- 
main, for they do not bear tranfpianting well ; if 
the feeds are fown in autumn, the plants will come 
up early in the fpring, fo will flower in the 
fummer, and thefe which are fown early in the fpring 
will fucceed them *, fo that by fowing them at three 
different feafons, they may be continued in fucceffion 
till the froft flops them. Thefe require no other cul- 
ture but to keep them clean Tom weeds, and thin 
them where they are too clofe *, anddf the feeds are 
permitted to flatter, the plants will come up full as 
well as when fown, fo that it will maintain its fitua- 
tion unlefs it is weeded out. 
The twentieth fort grows naturally at the Cape of 
Good Hope ; this is alfo an annual plant which refem- 
bles the former, but the (talks grow more ered, are 
of a purplifh colour, and very hairy-, the leaves are 
compofed of three lobes, which are divided almoft to 
the foot-ftalk ; thefe are narrow, the middle lobe 
ftretching out more than twice the length of the two 
fide lobes, and they are but (lightly indented on their 
edges, whereas thole of the former are cut almoft to 
the midrib ; the flowers are larger, and .their colour 
deeper, than thofe of the other. 
The feeds of the twenty-fecond fort were fent me 
from the Cape of Good Hope, a few years paft. This 
is alfo an annual plant, having at firft fight fome re- 
femblance of the other forts before-mentioned ; but it 
rifes with ftrong hairy branching (talks, garnifhed 
with much broader leaves than either of the former, 
the lower being divided into three, and the upper into 
five obtufe lobes, which are crenated on their edges ; 
the flowers are large, but of a paler colour than thofe 
of the other. This has maintained the difference ten 
years, fo that there is no doubt of its being a diitindt 
fpecies. 
All thefe are as hardy as the nineteenth fort, fo may 
be treated in the fame way. 
The twenty-third fort grows naturally at Campeachy, 
from whence the late Dr. Houftoun lent me the feeds. 
This differs fo effentially from the other fpecies in its 
fruftification, as to deferve another title ; for all the 
other have dry capfutes with five cells, including 
many kidney-ftiaped feeds, but this hath a foft vif- 
cous berry, with a hard (hell inclofed, containing five 
roundifti feeds : it rifes with a (hrubby ftalk ten or 
twelve feet high, dividing into many branches, which 
are garnifhed with fmooth, heart-fhaped, angular 
leaves, which are crenated on their edges ; the flowers 
come out from the wings of the (talks fingly, (land- 
ing on- fliort foot-ftalks they are compofed of five 
oblong petals, which are twifted together and never 
expand •» they are of a fine fcarlet, and are fucceeded 
by roundifti berries of a fcarlet colour when ripe, in- 
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clofing a hard (hell which opens in five cells, each 
containing a Tingle roundifti feed. 
This fort is generally propagated here by cuttings, 
becaufe the feeds do not often ripen here - 3 if the cut- 
tings are planted in pots filled with light earth, arid 
plunged into a gentle hot-bed, keeping the air from 
them, they will foon take root, and mould be gradu- 
ally inured to bear the open air. Thefe plants require 
a moderate ftove to preferve them through the winter; 
and if they are kept in warmth in fummer, they will 
flower, and fometimes ripen fruit, though they may- 
be placed abroad in a (Mitered fituation for two or 
three months in fummer, but the plants fo treated fei- 
dom flower fo well. 
HIERACIUM. Lin. Gen. Plant. Si 8. Tourn, 
Inft. R. H. 469. tab. 267. [of ‘ffpag, Gr. a hawk; 
fo called, becaufe hawks as well as eagles, have a 
ftrong and quick fight ; and it is reported, that if by 
reafon of the heat of the air, a film, grows over the 
eyes of this bird, then the parent let falls a drop of 
the juice of it in its eye, which takes it off; and that, 
in like manner, it is good to clear the human fight.} 
Hawk weed. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a flower compofed of many hermaphrodite florets* 
which are included in one common flealy empalement , 
whofe feales are narrow , and very unequal in their lenyth 
and pofition the florets are equal and uniform ■* they have 
one petal which is fhaped like a tongue , indented in five 
fegments at the point , placed imbricatim over each other % 
thefe have each five jhort hairy ftamina , terminated by 
cylindrical fummits. At the bottom of the petal -is fitu- 
ated the germen , fupporting a fender ftyle , crowned 
by two recurved fiigmas •, the germen afterward becomes a 
fioort four-cornered feed crowned with down , fitting in the 
empalement. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft Action of 
Linnseus’s nineteenth clafs, which includes the plants 
with a compound flower, compofed only of fruitful 
florets. 
There are a great number of fpecies of this genus* 
many of which grow naturally as weeds in England, 
and the others are fo in different countries, therefore! 
(hall only feledl thofe wihch are the moft beautiful, 
and beft worth cultivating from the number, which to 
enumerate, would fwell this work greatly beyond its 
bounds. 
1. Hieracium ( Aurantiacum ) foliis integris caule fub- 
nudo fimplicifiimo piiofo corymbifero. Hort. Cliff. 
388. Hawkweed with entire leaves* and a Jingle y hairy* 
naked ftalk , terminated by a corymbus of flowers. Hiera- 
cium hortenfe, floribus atro purpurafeentibus. C. B. 
P. 128. Garden Hawkweed with dark purple flowers. 
2. Hieracium ( CerinthoidesJ foliis radicalibus obovatis 
denticulatis, caulinis oblongis femiamplexicaulibus. 
Prod. Ley, d. 124. Hawkweed with oval indented leaves 
at the root , thofe on the ftalks oblong , and half embracing 
them. Hieracium Pyrenaicum folio cerinthes. SchoL 
Bot. Pyrenian Hawkweed with a Honeywort leaf.- 
3. Hieracium ( Blattaroides ) foliis lanceolatis amplexb 
caulibus dentatis, floribus folitariis, calycibus laxis. 
Hort. Cliff 387. Hawkweed with fpear-fh aped indented 
leaves embracing the ftalks , flowers growing fingly , and 
loofe empalements. Hieracium Pyrenaicum, blattarise 
folio minus hirfutum. Tourn. Inft. 472. Pyrenean 
Hawkweed with a Moth Mullein leaf , lefts hairy. 
4. Hieracium ( Amplexicaule ) foliis amplexicaulibus 
cordatis fubdentatis, pedunculis unifloris hirfutis, caule 
ramofo. Hort. Cliff 387. Hawkweed with heart-fhaped* 
indented , hairy foot-ftalks* leaves embracing the ftalks bear- 
ing one flower , and a branching ftalk. Hieracium Pyre- 
naicum rotundifolium amplexicaule. Sc hoi. Bot. Py- 
renean Hawkweed , with round leaves embracing the ftalks. 
5. Hieracium [fabauduni) caule eredto multifloro, fo- 
liis ovato-lanceolatis dentatis femiamplexicaulibus. 
Prod. Leyd. 124. Hawkweed with an ereli ftalk bear- 
ing many flowers , and oval fpear-fhaped leaves half 
embracing the ftalk. Hieracium fabauduni altiSImum, 
foliis latis brevibus, crebrius nafeentibus. Mor. Hilt. 
3. p. 71, 
6. Hie- 
