B E G\ . 
(love, and: requiring a large 4 Mre oft room, they are 
feldom propagated in Europe, unlefs in botanic gar- 
dens for the fake of variety, for their flowers have 
very little beauty to recommend them. 
They are propagated by feeds, which mult be ob- 
tained from the countries where they naturally grow, 
for they do not produce feeds in England. Thefe 
fhould be fown in fmall pots, filled' with light earth, 
as foon as they arrive, and the pots fhould be plunged 
into a moderate hot-bed of tanners bark. If thefe 
feeds arrive in the aqtumn, the pots fhould be plunged 
into the bark-bed in the ftove, and then there will be 
a probability of the plants coming up the following 
ib ring ; but thofe feeds which do not arrive here till 
fpring, will not come up the fame year, fo the pots 
in which they are fown, fhould be plunged into a 
moderate hot- bed under a frame, where they may be 
continued all the fummer, but in the autumn they 
fhould be removed into the ftove, where the^ fhould 
remain during the winter, and as the earth in the 
pots will be dry, fo they fhould be now and then wa- 
tered, but it fhould be given fparingly. The follow- 
ing fpring the pots fhould be removed out of the ftove 
and plunged into anew hot-bed under a frame, which 
will bring up the plants in about fix weeks if the feeds 
are good. When the plants are fit to remove, they 
fhould be each planted in a finall pot filled with light 
earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanhers bark, 
obferving to fhade them every day from the fun till 
they have taken new root, after which they fhould 
have free air admitted to them daily, in proportion to 
the warmth of the feafon. In the autumn they muft 
be removed into the bark-ftove, where they fhould 
conftantly remain, and muft be treated in the fame way 
as other tender plants. 
TEACH'. See Persica, 
PEAR. See Pyrus. 
PEAS. See Pisum. 
PEAS EVERLASTING!,. See Lathyrus. 
PEDICLE is that part of a ftalk which immediately 
fuftains the leaf, a flower, or a fruit, and is com- 
monly called a foot-ftalk. 
PEDiCUL ARIS, Rattle, Cocks-eomb, orLoufe- 
wort. 
There are four different kinds of this plant, which 
grow wild in paftures in leveral parts of England, 
and in fome low meadows are very troublefome to 
the paftures, efpecially one fort with yellow flowers, 
which rifes to be a foot high, or more, and is often 
in fuch plenty, as to be the moft predominant plant •, 
but this is very bad food for cattle, and when it is 
mowed with the Grafs for hay, renders it of little 
value. The feeds of this plant are generally ripe by 
the time the Grafs is mowed, fo that whenever per- 
fons take Grafs-feed for fowing, they fhould be very 
careful that none of this feed is mixed with it. As 
thefe plants are never cultivated, I fhall not trouble 
the reader with their feveral varieties. 
P E G A N U M. Lin. Gen. Plant. 530. Harmfta. 
Tourn. Inft. R. H.257. tab. 133. WildAffyrian Rue. 
The Characters are, 
'T'hc flower has a permanent empalement , compofed of five 
■narrow erebi leaves the length of the petal. It has five 
oblong oval petals which fipread open , and fifteen awl- 
Jhaped ftamina about half the length of the petals , whofe 
bafies fipread into a nebiarium under the germen , and are 
terminated by ere hi oblong fiummits. It has a three-cor- 
nered roundijh germen , elevated at the bafie of the flower , 
with a three-cornered fender flyle the length of the fum- 
mits , and three fligmas which are longer than the flyle. 
’The germen afterward becomes a roundijh three-cornered 
capfiule , having three cells , filled with oval acutje-pointed 
fieeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftion of 
Linnaeus’s eleventh clafs, which includes thofe plants 
whofe flowers have from eleven to nineteen ftamina, 
and one ftyle. 
We have but one Species in the Englifh gardens 
atprefent, viz. 
Peganum (Harmala ). foliis multifidis. Hort. Upfal. 144. 
B, E N 
Peganum with many -pointed leaves. Harmala. Dock 
Pempt. 12 1. Ruta fylveftris, fiore magno a-lbo. C.B.P; 
3 36. Wild Rue with a large white flower. 
This plant grows naturally in Spain and Syria ; it has 
a root as large as a man’s little finger, which by age 
becomes ’woody. The.. italics decay every autumn, 
-and. new ones arife in the fpring; thefe grow about a 
foot long, and divide into feveral fmall branches, 
which are garnifhed with oblong thick leaves cut into 
feveral narrow fegments ; they are of a dark green, 
and of a gummy bitterifh tafte. The flowers are 
produced at the end of the branches, fitting clofe be- 
tween the leaves ; they are compofed of five roundifh 
white petals, which open like a Rofe, having fifteen- 
awl- fhaped ftamina, terminated by oblong, yellow* eredfc 
funimits. In the center is fi mated a roundifh three- 
cornered germen, having a three-cornered ftyle the 
length of the ftamina, with three ftigmas which are 
longer than the ftyle. The germen afterward becomes 
a roundifh three-cornered capfifte, having three cells, 
which contain feveral oval acute-pointed feeds. It 
flowers in July, and in warm iummefs, -the. ‘feeds will 
ripen here in the autumn. 
Ibis propagated by feeds, which fhould, be fown thinly 
on -a bed of light earth the beginning of April, and 
when the plants come up, they muft be conftantly 
kept clean from weeds, which is all the culture they 
will require till the end of Oftober, or the begin- 
ning of November, when their ftalks decay. At which 
time, if the bed is covered with tanners bark, afhes, 
faw-duft, or fuch like covering to keep out the froft, 
it will be a fecure way to preferve the roots, which 
when young are fomewhat tender. . The following 
March the roots may be taken up,, and tranfplanted 
into a warm fituation and a dry foil, where they will 
continue feveral years. This is fometinres ufed in 
medicine. 
PELECINUS. See Biserrula. 
PELLITORY OF SPAIN. See Anthemis. 
PELLITORY OF THE WALL. See Pa- 
rietaria. T • 
PELTARIA. Jacq. Vind. 260. Lin. Gen. Plant. 
So 6. Mountain Treacle Muftard, 
The Characters are, 
The empalement of the flower .is compofed of four fmall, 
concave , coloured leaves which fall of ; the flower has four 
petals placed inform of a clofis , whofe necks are jhorter 
than the empalement , and fix awl-Jhaped ftamina , two of 
which are jhorter than the empalement , terminated by 
fingle fummits , with a roundifo germen fupporting a floor t 
ftyle , crowned by an obtufe ftigma. The germen afterward 
becomes a roundijh xomprefed pod with one cell , containing 
one roundifo feed. 
- This genus of plants is ranged in the firft, fe&ion of 
Linnaeus’s fifteenth clafs, intitled Tetradynamia Sili- 
ciilofa, the flower having four long and two fhort fta- 
mina, and the feeds being included in fhort pods. 
We have but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Pel taria {Alliacea.) Jacq. Vind. 260. Lin. Sp. Plant. 
910. Peltaria or Thacle Muftard. Thlafpi montanum,- 
glafti folio majus, C.B.P. 106. Mountain Treacle 
Muftard with a Wbad leaf.. 
This plant grows naturally upon the mountains in 
Auftria and Iftria ; it is a biennial, fo generally dies 
foon after the feeds are perfected. It rifes with an 
upright branching ftalk about a foot high, garnifhed 
with heart-fhaped fmooth leaves, which embrace the 
ftalks with their bafe ; the ftalks are terminated by 
clu fters of white flowers growing in form of umbels, 
each flower having four petals placed in form of a 
crofs ; thefe are fucceeded by roundifh comprefted 
pods, each containing one feed of the lame form. 
The. plant flowers in May, and the feeds ripen m July. 
This is eafily propagated by feeds, which may be 
fown in fmall patches in the borders of the flower- 
garden the beginning of April, and when the plants 
are up, there fhould be four or five left in each patch ; 
the others fhould be pulled out, to give thefe room to 
grow ; after this, they will require no other culture 
but to. keep theni glean from weedy. 
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