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The Characters are, 
'The flower has a fmall permanent ernpalement of one leaf, 
cut into five fegments at the top. The petal is funnel- 
fhaped ; the tube is cylindrical , globular at the bafe , and 
is cut at the brim into five parts. It has five ftamina 
whi h are a little floor ter than the tube, terminated by 
ere It fummits , and a romdijh ger men fupporting a floor t 
jlyle , crowned by a headed Jligma. The ger men afterward 
becomes a globular bsrrj with two cells, inclofing one com - 
preffed feed in each. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fir ft feel; ion of 
Linri'jbus’s fifth clafs, which includes thofe plants 
whofe flowers have five fiamina and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Rauvolfia ( Canefcens ) fubpubefeens. Lin. Sp. Plant. 
. 303. Hairy Rauvolfia. Rauvolfia tetraphylla latifo- 
lia. Plum. Nov. Gen. 19. Broad four-leaved Rauvolfia. 
2. Rauvolfia ( Nitida ) giaberrima nitidiffima. Lin. Sp. 
303. Smooth neat Rauvolfia. Rauvolfia tetraphylla 
anguftifolia. Plum. Nov. Gen. 19. Narrow four-leaved 
Rauvolfia. 
Both thefe forts grow naturally in the warmed: parts 
of America ; Mr. Robert Millar fent the feeds of 
them from Garthagena in New Spain, where he ob- 
ferved the ihrubs growing in great plenty. Thefe rife 
with feveral ligneous ftalks from the foot, which grow 
feven or eight feet high, fending out a few fmall fide 
branches, covered with a fmooth green bark when 
young, but as they are older their bark changes to a 
gray. The leaves are placed by fours at each joint 
round the branches •, thofe of the firft fort are two 
inches and a half long, and an inch and a half broad 
in the middle, a little hairy, of a light green, and 
have a few Right indentures on their edges ; the 
leaves of the other fort are full as long, but are a 
third part narrower, of a thinner fubftance, and much 
fmoother. Thefe differences continue in the plants 
which are railed from feeds, for I have feveral times 
propagated them both from feeds, and have con- 
ttantly found the feeds produce the fame as the 
plants from which they were taken. The flowers are 
produced on (lender foot-ftalks, which arife from the 
wings of the leaves •, they are tubulous, and globular 
at their bafe, and are fucceeded by roundifli berries 
about the fize of thofe of the Privet, which turn black 
when they are ripe. Thefe plants flower moft part 
of the fummer, and the fruit ripens in autumn and 
winter •, the leaves and ftalks of thefe plants have a 
milky juice, which flows out if they are broken. 
Thefe are propagated by feeds, which fhoukl be fown 
in autumn foon after they are ripe ; for if they are 
kept out of the ground till fpring, the plants rarely 
come up the fame year ; and this is frequently the cafe 
with thofe feeds which are brought to England. 
The feeds of thefe plants fhould be fown in pots fill- 
ed with frefh earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of 
tanners bark ; for as they are very hard, fo they fre- 
quently remain a long time in the ground ; therefore 
when they are in pots, they may be fhifted from one 
bed to another as their heat decays. When the 
plants come up, they muft be frequently refrefned 
with water, but it muft not be given them in large 
quantities ; for as the plants are fucculent and full of 
a milky juice, fo they are in danger of rotting with 
too much moifture. They fhould alfo have a large 
fiiare of frefh air admitted to them in warm weather, 
and when they are about two inches high, they fhould 
be transplanted each into a feparate fmall pot filled 
with frefh light earth, and plunged into a hot-bed 
again, obferving to fhade them from the fun until 
they have taken new root ; after which time they 
fhould have free air admitted to them every day, in 
proportion to the warmth of the feafon. In this 
hot -bed the plants may remain till toward Michael- 
mas, when they fhould be removed into the ftove, 
and plunged into the tanners bark, where they muft 
be kept warm, and not have too much moifture in 
cold weather. 
As thefe plants are natives of very hot countries, they 
will not live in the open air in England, therefore 
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they fhould conftantly remain in the ftove; and if ■ 
they are continued in the bark-bed, they will thrive 
much fafter than when they are placed on ftands in a 
dry ftove. But in the fummer feafon they fhould 
have a large (hare of frefh air admitted to them, arid 
the leaves of the plants muft be now and then waflied 
with a fponge, to clear them from the filth they are 
apt to contract ; which, if fuffered to remain, will 
retard the growth of the plants. Where due care is 
taken of them, they will thrive very fail, and the 
fecond year will produce flowers, and continue fo to 
do for many years, and will perfect their feeds in 
England. They may alfo be propagated by cuttings, 
which fhould be laid to dry for two or three days 
before they are planted ; and then fhould be plunged 
into a moderate hot-bed of tanners bark, obferving 
to fhade them until they have taken root, after which 
time they may be treated as the feedling plants. 
RESEDA. Tourn. Inft. R. II. 423. tab. 238. Lin. 
Gen. Plant. 535. Baftard-rocket. 
The ChaPvActers are, 
The ernpalement of the flower is of one leaf , cut into fe- 
veral fegments almofl to the bottom , and is permanent . 
The petals of the flower are unequal , and generally trifid , 
having a honey gland on their bafe the length of the em- 
palement . The honey glands are plain , erect, and produced 
from the upper fide of the receptacle , between the /la- 
mina and the place of the upper petal, joining with the bafe 
of the petals , dilating from the Jides. It hath fifteen or 
fix teen floor t ftamina, terminated by erect obtup fummits ; 
and a gibbous ger men fitting upon very floort fifes, crowned 
by a Jingle Jligma. The germen afterward becomes a gib- 
bous angular cap fide of one cell, with an aperture between 
the ftyles, filled with kidney -/leaped feeds faftened to the an- 
gles of the capfuls. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the third fed ion of 
Linnaeus’s eleventh clafs, which includes thofe plants 
whofe flowers have from eleven to nineteen ftamina, 
and three ftyles. 
The Species are, 
1. Reseda ( Vulgaris ) foliis pinnatis, foliolis integris al- 
ternis floribus tetragynis. Baftard-rocket with winged 
leaves, whofe lobes are entire, placed alternate, and have 
four ftyles to the flower. Refeda vulgaris. C. B. P. 100. 
Common Baftard-rocket. 
2. Reseda ( Crifpa ) foliis omnibus trifidis, inferiortbus 
pinnatis. Hort. Cliff. 213. Baftard-rocket with all the 
leaves trifid, and the lower ones winged. Refeda crifpa 
Gallica. Bocc. Sic. 77. French curled' Baftard-rocket. 
3. Reseda (. Phyteuma ) foliis integris trilobifque, calyci- 
bus fexpartitis maximis. Hort. Cliff. 412. Baftard- 
rocket with entire and trifid leaves, and the largeft em- 
palement to the flower. Refeda minor vulgaris. Tourn. 
Inft. R. H. 413. Lejfier common Baftard-rocket. 
4. Reseda ( Undata ) floribus trigynis, tetragynifque ca- 
lycibus quinquepartitis, foliis pinnatis undulatis. Lin. 
Sp. Plant. 644. Baftard-rocket with trifid and quadrifid 
flowers, whofe empalements are cut into five parts , and . 
winged waved leaves. Refeda minor alba, dentatis fo- 
liis. Barrel. Icon. 588. Smaller white Baftard-rocket 
with indented leaves. 
5. Reseda {Alba) foliis pinnatis, floribus tetragynis, ca- 
lycibus fexpartitis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 645. Hort. Upfal. 
149. Baftard-rocket with winged leaves , flowers having 
four ftyles, and an ernpalement cut into fix parts. Refeda 
foliis calcitrapis flare albo. Mor. Hort. R. Bl. Baf- 
tard-rocket with Star Thiftle leaves , and a white flower. 
6 . Reseda ( Odorata ) foliis integris trilobifque, calycibus 
fiorum aequantibus. Lin. Sp. Plant. 646. Baftard- 
rocket with entire three-hbed leaves, whofe ernpalement is 
equal with the petals of the flower, commonly called fweet 
Refeda, or Mignonette d Egypt. 
7. Reseda ( Canefcens ) foliis fubulatis fparfts. Sauv., , 
Monfp. 41 . Baftard-rocket with awl-Jhaped halves placed 
thinly. Sefamoides flore albo, foliis canefcentibus. 
Tourn Inft. R. H. 424. Baftard Sefamum with a white 
flower and hoary leaves. 
8. Reseda (. Luteola ) foliis lanceolatis iritegris, calycibus 
quadriftdis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 448. Baftard-rocket with 
fpear-Jhapsd entire leaves, and quadrifid emp elements. Lu- 
teola 
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