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above the nedarium, and are terminated by yellow 
fummits. 
The feventh fort grows naturally in the i (lands of the 
Weft-Incjies, where it is called white Lily. This hath 
a pretty large bulbous root, a little flatted at the top, 
covered with a brown fkin ^ the leaves are near afoot 
and a half long, and little more than one inch broad, 
of a dark green, and -hollowed in the middle like the 
keel of a boat. The ftaiks rife near two feet high, 
which are thick, fucculent, and naked, fuftaining at 
the top eight or tea white flowers, fbaped like thofe 
of the firft fort, but are of a purer white, and have a 
ftrong fweet odour, like that of Balfarn of Peru. The 
flamina of this are very long, fpreading out wide each 
way ; the pointal is of the fame length, funding in 
the middle of the nedarium. Thefe flowers are of 
Ihort duration, feldom continuing longer in beauty 
than three or four days, and in very hot weather not 
fo long ; when thefe fade, the germen, which are fi- 
tuated at the bottom of the tubes, turn to fo many 
oblong bulbs, which are irregular in form, and when 
ripe, drop off in the ground, where they put out fi- 
bres and become plants. 
Thefe foreign fpecies are moil, if not all of them, of 
this kind, bearing bulbs ; whereas the two firft have 
feed-veffels with three cells, inclofing many roundilh 
black feeds', fo that though they agree in the charac- 
ters of their flowers, yet in this particular they differ 
greatly. 
The eighth fort grows naturally in the Weft-Indies, 
where it is not diftinguifhed from the former ; but as 
I have frequently propagated both by their bulbs which 
fucceed the flowers, and have always found the plants 
fo raifed continue their difference, I make no doubt of 
their being diftind fpecies. This differs from the 
former, in the leaves being much longer and broader 
than that ; for thefe are near two feet long, and more 
than three inches broad, and are hollowed like the keel 
of a boat. The flowers are larger, the petals longer, 
and the fcent is not fo ftrong as that of the former, 
and the roots flower in every feafon of the year. This 
feems to be the fort figured by Dr. Trew, in the 
twenty-feventh table of his Decades of Rare Plants, 
but if it is, the leaves in his figure are too flat. 
Thefe fix forts laft mentioned are tender, fo will not 
thrive in England, unlefs they are placed in a warm 
ftove. The beft way to have thefe plants in perfec- 
tion, is to plunge the pots into the bark-bed in the 
ftove, where they will thrive and flower exceeding 
well ; for though they may be preferved in a dry 
ftove, yet thofe will not thrive fo well, nor will their 
flowers be fo ftrong, as when they are plunged in the 
tan-bed, nor will they flower oftener than once a 
year •, whereas when they are in the tan-bed, the fame 
roots will often flower two or three times in a year. I 
have had feveral of the fpecies in flower at all feafons 
of the year, fo there has not been a month when fome 
of them were not in flower. 
They are propagated by offsets from the roots, as alfo 
by the bulbs which fucceed the flowers ; if the latter 
are planted in fmall pots filled with light earth from a 
kitchen-garden, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed, 
they will foon put out roots and leaves, and with pro- 
per management, will become blowing roots in one 
year, fo that they may be eafily propagated ; and if 
they are conftantly kept in the tan-bed in the ftove, 
they will put out offsets from their roots, and thrive 
as well as in their native countries. 
PANICLE. A Panicle is a ftalk diffufed into feve- 
ral pedicles or foot-llalks, fuftaining the flowers or 
fruits, as in Oats, &c. 
PANICUM. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 515. tab. 298. 
Lin. Gen. Plant. 70. Panic •, in French, Pants. 
The Characters are, 
There is pne fiower in each chaff j the chaff opens with 
three valves which are oval, ending in acute points. The 
petals open with two oval acute-pointed valves. The 
fiower s have three Jhort hair-like jtamina , terminated by 
. oblong fummits, and a roundijh germen fupporting two 
hair-like ftyles , crowned by feathered ftigmas. The ger- 
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men afterward becomes a roundijh feed » faftened to the 
withered petals. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fedion 
of Linnaeus’s third clafs, which includes the plants 
whole flowers have three ftamina and two ftyles. 
The Species are, 
1. Panicum ( Germanicurn ) fpica fimplid cernua, fetis 
brevioribus pedunculo hirfuto. Panic with a fingle nod- 
ding fpike , port awns , and a hairy f 00 t-ftalk. Panicum 
Germanicurn, five panicula minore. C. B. P. 27. 
German Panic with a [matter panicle. 
2. Panicum (Ilalicum) fpica compofita, fpiculis glome- 
ratis.5 fetis immixtis, pedunculo hirfuto. Lin. Sp, 
Plant. 56. Panic with a compounded fpike , whofe fmall-. 
, er [pikes grow in clufters intermixed with awns , and 
a hairy foot-ftalk. Panicum Italictim five panicula 
majore. C. B. P. 27. Italian Panic with a larger fpike. 
3. Panicum (Indie urn) fpica fimplici Ion gift! m a, fetis 
hifpidis, pedunculo hirfuto. Panic with the longejl fin- 
gle fpike , prickly awns, and a hairy foot-ftalk. Panicum 
Indicum, fpica longifllma. C. B. P. 27. Indian Panic 
with the longeft fpike . 
4. Panicum ( Alopecurodem ) fpica tereti, involucellis fai- 
fioris fafciculato-pilofis. Flor. Zeyl. 44. Panic with a 
taper fpike having two flowers in each cover , and hairs 
growing in clufters. Panicum Indicum althTimum, 
fpica fimplicibus mollibus, in foliorum alls longiffi- 
mis pediculis infidentibus. Tourn. Inft. 515. Talleft 
Indian Panic, with the j oft fingle [pikes proceeding from 
the wings of the leaves , and fitting upon very long foot - 
ftaiks. 
5. Panicum ( Caruleum ) fpica fimplici sequali, pedun- 
culis biftoris. Prod. Leyd. 54. Panic with an equal jin- 
gle fpike , and two flowers gro wing on each foot ftalk. 
Panicum Indicum, fpica obtufa caerulel C. B. P. 7. 
Indian Panic , with an obtufte blue fpike. 
There are feveral other fpecies of this genus than 
are here enumerated, fome of which grow naturally 
in England ; but as they are not cultivated, fo it 
would be fwelnng this work too much if they were 
inferted here. ' • 
The firft fort grows naturally in Germany and Hun- 
gary ■, of this there are three varieties, one with yellow 
gr'ain, another with white, and the third has purple 
grains. This hath been formerly cultivated for bread, 
in fome of the northern countries. It rifes with a 
jointed Reed-like ftalk about three feet high, and 
about the fize of the common Reed, garniflied°at each 
joint with one Grafs-like leaf a foot and a half long, 
and about an inch broad at the bafe where broadd?, 
ending in acute points ; they are rough to the touch, 
embiacing the ftalk at their bafe, and turn downward 
about half their length. The ftaiks are terminated by 
compact fpikes, which are about the thicknefs of a 
man s finger at their bafe, growing taper toward their 
points, and are eight or nine inches long, clolely fee 
with fmall roundifti grain like that of Millet. This 
is an annual plant, which perifhes foon after the feeds 
are ripe. 
The fecond fort is frequently cultivated in Italy, and 
other warm countries. This rifes with a Reed-like 
ftalk near four feet high, which is much thicker than 
that of. the former ; the leaves are alfo broader, but 
of the fame fliape. The fpikes are a foot long, and 
twice the thicknefs of thofe of the former, but “not fo 
compad, being compofed of feveral roundifti cluttered 
fpikes ; the grain is alfo larger, but of the fame form. 
There are two or three varieties of this, which differ 
only in the colour of their grain ; this is alfo annual. 
The third fort grows naturally in both Indies ; this 
hath a Reed-like ftalk as large as a man’s thumb, 
fifing upward of five feet high ; the leaves are two 
inches broad, and more than two feet long, of the 
fame form with thofe of the former fort ; the fpikes 
at the top are a foot and a half long, very compad, 
and thicker than a man s thumb at the bafe, growing 
taper toward the top. The feeds are much larger 
than_ thofe of the other forts, and are in fome white 
and in others yellow. 
The 
