treated in the fame manner as the hardy perennial 
forts before mentioned. 
The fixteenth fort grows naturally in the Ifland of 
St. James, from whence the feeds were firft brought 
to Europe, but I have fince received the feeds from 
the Cape of Good Hope. This hath a (lender ftalk 
which is woody, riling from two to three feet high, 
fending out many fender herbaceous branches, gar- 
nifhed with narrow white leaves, which are fometimes 
trifoliate, and at others there are five narrow lobes to 
each ; thefe fit dole to the branches, and are hoary. 
The flowers are produced from the fide of the ftalks 
towards their upper part, upon very (lender foot- 
ftalks, each fuftaining four or five flowers colledled in 
a head, of a yellowilh deep purple colour, which are 
fucceeded by taper (lender pods little more than an 
inch long, containing five or fix fmall roundifh feeds. 
This plant flowers all the fummer and autumn, and 
many times great part of the winter, efpecially if 
the plants are placed in a dry airy glafs-cafe, where 
they may be free from damp, for nothing is more pre- 
judicial to them. It is too tender to live abroad in 
England, fo the plants muft be kept in pots and in 
the winter placed in a warm airy glafs-cafe, but in 
the fummer they fhould be placed abroad in a (hel- 
tered fituation. It may be eaflly propagated by cut- 
tings, during the fummer feafon, in the fame way as 
the fifth fort, and alfo by feeds ; but the plants which 
have been two or three times propagated by cuttings, 
feldom are fruitful. 
The feventeenth fort grows naturally about Montpe- 
lier *, it rifes with weak fhrubby (talks three or four 
feet high, fending out many fender branches, which 
are thinly garnifhed with fmall hoary leaves, growing 
with five lobes in form of a hand ; they fit clofe to the 
branches. The flowers are produced at the extremity 
of the branches in fmall heads ; they are very fmall 
and white, fo make no great appearance ; they ap- 
pear in June, and are fucceeded by fliort pods con- 
taining two or three fmall round feeds which ripen 
in the autumn. This (hrub will live in the open air, 
if it be planted in a dry foil and a warm fituation. It 
is propagated by feeds, which will come up in any 
common border. 
LOTUS ARBOR See Celtis/ 
LOVE-APPLE. See Lycopersicon. 
LUDVIGIA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 142. 
This title was given to this genus of plants by Dr. 
Linnteus, in honour of M. Chrift. Ludwig, of Leip- 
fic, who publilhed Remarks on Rivinus’s Method of 
clafling Plants, at Leipfic, in 1737. 
The Characters are, 
! The empalement of the flower is of one leaf \ cut into 
four fegments at the top , and fits upon the germen. ‘The 
flower conjifts of four fpear-Jhaped petals, which are equal, 
and fpread open. In the center of the flower is fituated 
the four-cornered point al, attended by four flamina: the 
germen afterward becomes a four-cornered fruit, crowned 
with the empalement, and has four cells which are full of 
fmall feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedlion of 
Linnaeus’s fourth clafs, which includes thofe plants 
whofe flowers have four (lamina and one (lyle. 
We have but one Species of this genus in the Eng- 
lifli gardens at prefent, which is 
Ludvigia ( Alternifolia ) foliis alternis lanceolatis. Lin. 
Sp. Plant. 1 1 8 . Ludvigia wich alternate fpear-Jhaped 
leaves. Ludvigia capfulis fubrotundis. Hort. Cliff 
49 1 . Ludvigia with roundifh capfules. 
We have no Englifh name for this plant, but it is 
very near akin to the Onagra, or Tree Primrofe, from 
which it differs in the number of (lamina. 
This plant grows naturally in South Carolina, from 
whence the late Dr. Dale lent me the feeds. It is annual, 
and rifes with an upright branching ftalk a foot high, 
garnifhed with fpear-fhaped leaves placed alternate. 
The flowers come out fingly at the foot -ftalks of the 
leaves ; they are compofed of four fmall yellow pe- 
■ tals, which fpread open, (landing upon fliort foot- 
ftalks, and have four (lamina the flowers are fucceeded 
by roundifn feed-vefiels with four leafy membranes 
they open in four ceils, including many fmall feeds- 
It flowers in July, and the feeds ripen in the autumn. 
The plants muft be raifed in a hot-bed in the fpring, 
and treated in the fame manner as hath been diredleci 
for the Amaranthus : for if they are not brought for- 
ward in the fpring, they feldom produce good feeds 
in England. 
LUFF A. Tourn. Ad. R. S. 1709. Momordica. Lin. 
Gen. 967. Egyptian Cucumber. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a bell floaped flower confifiing of one leaf, which 
is divided into five parts to the center there are male and 
female flowers on the fame plant. The male flowers are 
produced on Jhort foot -ftalks, having no embryos but the 
female flowers reft on the top of the embryos, which after- 
ward become a fruit like a Cucumber to outward appear- 
ance, but is not flefhy the inner part conf fling of many 
fibres, which are elegantly netted and there are three cells 
which are filled with feeds, which are almojl of an oval 
Jhape. 
We have but one Species of this plant, viz; 
Luff a (JEgyptiaca) Araburn. Tourn. Ad. R. 170. The 
Luffa of the Arabians. 
There are two varieties of this plant, one having 
white, and the other black feeds •, but thefe are not 
diftind fpecies. 
This plant may be propagated after the fame man- 
ner as Cucumbers and Melons, by fowingthe feeds on 
a hot-bed the beginning of March 5 and when the 
plants are come up, they muft be pricked into afrefh. 
hot-bed to ftrengthen the plants, obferving to let 
them have frefti air every day in warm weather, and 
to refrefh them frequently with water. When the 
plants have four or five leaves, they fhould be planted 
out upon a hot-bed where they are cleftgned to re- 
main, which fhould be under frames, and but one plant 
put into each light •, for as thefe plants fend forth a 
great number of fide-(hoots, fo where they are planted 
too clofe, they v/ill entangle one into the other, and 
become fo thick, as to caufe the fruit to drop. In the 
management of thefe plants, after they are planted 
out for good, there muft be the fame care taken as 
for Melons and Cucumbers, with this difference only* 
that thefe require a larger (hare of air in warm wea- 
ther ; otherwife the Vines will grow weak, and will 
not produce fruit. 
When the plants have fpread, fo as to fill the frames 
on every fide, the frames fhould be raifed on bricks, 
and the ends of the plants drawn out, that they may 
have room to grow ; for when thefe plants are in a 
vigorous (late, they will fpread eight or ten feet ; fo 
that if they are confined, they will become fo thick, as 
to rot the tender branches which are covered from 
the air, and there will be no fruit produced. 
The fruit, when it is young, is by fame people eaten, 
and made into Mangoes, and preferved in pickle ; but 
it hath a very difagreeable tafte, and is not accounted 
very wholefome : wherefore thefe plants are feldom 
cultivated in Europe, except by fuch perfons as are 
curious in botany, for variety. 
LUNARIA. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 218. tab. 105. 
Gen. Plant. 725. [fo called of Luna, Lat. the moon, 
becaufe the feed-vefiels referable the form of the 
moon.] Moon wort, Sattin Flower, or Honefty 3, irl 
French, Bulbonac. 
The Characters are. 
The empalement of the flower is compofed of four oblong , 
oval, fmall leaves, which are obtufe and fall off-, the flower 
has four petals in form of a crofs , which are large, obtufe , 
and entire : it hath flu awl- Jh aped flamina, four of thefe 
are the length of the empalement 3 the other two are 
floorter , terminated by me ft fummits. ■ It has an oblong 
oval germen fitting upon a fmall foot -ftalk, fupporting a 
Jhort flyle, crowned by an entire obtuje fligma. The ger- 
men afterward becomes an erect, plain , comprejfed , elliptical 
pod, fitting upon the fmall foct-ftalk , terminated by the 
flyle, having two cells opening with two valves, which 
are parallel, inclofing fever al comftrejfed kidney -floaped feeds, 
which are bordered, fitting in the middle of the pod, 
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