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high, but divides into branches by pairs from the j 
bottom, which fpread afunder. The leaves are very 
fmall, the flowers come out fingle from the wings of 
the leaves •, they have hairy cylindrical empalements, 
out of which the petals of the flower do but juft 
peep, fo are not obvious at any diftance. The whole 
plant is very clammy to the touch. As this plant 
makes no figure, fo it is only kept for variety. 
Thefe plants are eafily propagated by feeds, which 
fhould be fown where the plants are to remain, and 
will require no other care but to keep them clean from 
weeds, and thin them where they are too clofe. If 
the feeds are fown in autumn, or are permitted to fcat- 
ter, the plants will come up without care. 
S A P O T A. Plum. Nov. Gen. 43. tab. 4. Acras. Lin. 
Gen. Plant. 438. The Mammee Sapota. 
The Characters are, 
Hhe flower has a permanent empalement compofed of five 
oval leaves , which are acute-pointed and eredt. It has 
five roundijh heart foaped petals , which are conneEled at 
their hafie , and end in acute points j and fix floor t ftami- 
na the length of the tube , terminated by arrow-pointed 
fummits , with an oval germen fupporting a Jhort ftyle , 
crowned by an obtufe ftigma. The germen afterward be- 
comes an oval fucculent fruity indofing one or two oval 
hard nuts or ftones. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedtion of 
Linnaeus’s fixth ciafs, which includes thole plants 
whofe flowers have fix ftamina and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Sapota ( Achras ) foliis oblongo-ovatis, frudtibus tur- 
binatis glabris. Sapota with oblong oval leaves , and 
fimooth turbinated fruit. Sapota fructu turbinato mi- 
nori. Plum. Nov. Gen. 43. Sapota with a fmaller tur- 
binated fruit. 
1. Sapota ( Mammofa ) foliis lanceolatis, frudtu maxi- 
mo ovato, feminibus ovatis utrinque acutis. Sapota 
with fpear-Jhaped leaves , a very large pval fruit, and oval 
feeds which are pointed at both ends. 
The name of Sapota is what thefe fruit are called by 
the natives of America, to which fome add the ap- 
pellation of Mammee * but there is no other name 
given to thefe fruits by the Englilh, fince they have 
fettled in the Weft-Indies, fo far as I can learn. 
The firft of thefe trees is common about Panama, 
and fome other places in the Spanifh Weft-Indies, but 
is not tO' be found in many of the Englifh fettlements 
in America. The fecond fort is very common in 
Jamaica, Barhadoes, and molt of the iflands in the 
Weft-Indies, where the trees are planted in gardens 
for their fruit, which is by many perfons greatly ef- 
teemed. 
The fecond fort grows in America to the height of 
thirty-five or forty feet, having a ftrait trunk, cover- 
ed with an Afn-coloured bark. The branches are 
produced on every fide, fo as to form a regular head ; 
thefe are befet with leaves, which are a foot in length, 
and near three inches broad in the middle, drawing 
to a point attach end. The flowers which are pro- 
duced from the branches, are of a cream colour * 
when thefe fall away, they are fucceeded by large 
oval or top-fhaped fruit, which are covered with a 
brownilh fkin, under which is a thick pulp of a ruf- 
fet colour, very lufeious, called natural marmelade, 
from its likenefs to marmelade of Quinces. 
As thefe trees are natives of very warm countries, 
they cannot be preferved in England, unlefs they are 
placed in the warmeft ftoves and managed with great 
care. They are propagated by planting the ftones, 
but as thefe will not keep good long out of the ground, 
the fureft method to obtain thefe plants is, to have 
the ftones planted in tubs of earth, as foon as they are 
taken out of the fruit, and the tubs placed in a flota- 
tion where they may have the morning fun, and kept 
duly watered. When the plants come up, theymuft 
be fecured from vermin and kept clear from weeds, 
but fhould remain in the country till they are about 
a foot high, when they may be fhipped for England ; 
but they fhould be brought over in the fummer, 
and, if poftible, time enough for the plants to 
make good roots after they arrive. During their paf- 
fage they muft have fome water, while they continue 
in a warm climate * but as they come into colder 
weather, they fhould have very little moifture *, and 
they muft be fecured from fait water, which will foon 
deftroy the plants if it gets at them. 
When thefe plants arrive in England, they fhould be 
carefully taken out of the tubs, preferving fome earth 
to their roots, and planted into pots filled with frefh 
earth, and then plunged into a moderate hot-bed of 
tanners bark, obferving, if the weather is hot, to 
fhade the glades with mats every day, to fereen the 
plants from the fun, until they have taken new root ; 
obferving alfo not to water them too much at firft, 
efpecially if the earth in which they come over is 
moift •, becaufe too much water is very injurious to 
the plants before they are well rooted, but afterward 
they muft be frequently refrefhed with water in warm 
weather * and they muft have a large fhare of air ad- 
mitted to them, otherwife their leaves will be infefted 
with infedts and become foul ; in which cafe they muft 
be wafhed with a fponge to clean them, without which 
the plants will not thrive. 
In the winter thefe plants muft be placed in the 
warmeft ftove, and in cold weather they fhould have 
but little water given to them, though they muft be 
frequently refrefhed when the earth is dry ; efpecially 
if they retain their leaves all the winter, they will re- 
quire a greater fhare of water than when they drop 
their leaves •, fo that this muft be done with difere- 
tion, according to the ftate in which the plants are. 
As thefe plants grow in magnitude, they fhould be 
fhifted into pots of a larger fize, but they muft not be 
over-potted, for that will infallibly deftroy them. 
SARRACENA. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 657. tab. 476. 
Lin. Gen. Plant. 578. The Sidefaddle-flower. 
The Characters are, 
fhe flower has a double empalement -, the under is com- 
pofed of three fmall oval leaves which fall away ; the upper 
has five large coloured leaves , which are permanent. It 
has five oval infexed petals which inclofe the ftamina , 
whofe tails are oblong , oval, and eredl , and a great num- 
ber of fmall ftamina , terminated by target-jhaped fummits. 
In the center is fituated a roundijh germen , fupporting a 
jhort cylindrical ftyle , crowned by a target-jhaped five- 
cornered ftigma covering the ftamina , and is permanent. 
'The germen afterward becomes a roundijh capfule with five 
cells , filled with fmall feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedtion of 
Linnaeus’s thirteenth ciafs, which includes thofe plants 
whofe flowers have many ftamina and one ftyle. 
The title of this genus was given to it by Dr. Tour- 
nefort, in honour of Dr. Sarrazin, a curious botanift, 
who fent this and many other rare plants from Cana- 
da to the Paris Garden. 
The Species are, 
1. Sarracena ( Purpurea ) foliis gibbis. Hort. Cliff. 
427. Sarracena with gibbous leaves. Sarracena Cana- 
denfis, foliis cavis & auritis. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 
657. Sarracena of Canada, with hollowed and eared leaves. 
2. Sarracena ( Flava ) foliis ftridtis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 
510. Sarracena with clofed leaves. Sarracena foliis lon- 
gioribus & anguftioribus. Catefb. Hift. Carol. 2. p. 
69. Sarracena with longer end narrower leaves. 
The firft fort grows naturally upon bogs in moft parts 
of North America * this hath a ftrdng fibrous root, 
which ftrikes deep into the foft earth, from which 
arife five, fix, or feven leaves, in proportion to the 
ftrength of the plant ; thefe are about fi e or fix inches 
long, hollow like a pitcher, narrow at their bafe, but 
fwell out large at the top \ their outer Tides are round- 
ed, but on their inner fide they are a little compreff- 
ed, and have a broad leafy border running longitu- 
dinally the whole length of the tube ; and to the 
rounded part of the leaf there is on the top a large, 
appendage or ear Handing eredt, of a brown ifh co- 
lour •, this furrounds the outfide of the leaves about 
two thirds of the top, it is eared at both ends, and 
waved round the .border. From the center of the 
root, between the leaves, arifes a ftrpng, round* na- 
ked 
