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la the fame way as the former, and requires the fame 
treatment. 
The thirteenth fort grows naturally in Germany ; this 
hath a perennial foot, from which come out many 
leaves that fpread near the ground, which are about 
five or fix inches long, divided into narrow fegments 
to the midrib ; thefe fegments are cut on their edges 
into regular acute points, like winged leaves ; the 
llalks rile near two feet high, and are garnilhed with 
very narrow cut leaves •, they divide into feveral long 
(oot-ftalks, each being terminated by a roundilh flow- 
er, with radiated borders. This flowers in July, and 
the feeds ripen in autumn. It may be propagated by 
feeds, and will thrive any where. 
The fourteenth fort grows naturally in the Levant ; 
this is a low perennial plant, with a branching (talk 
which fpreads wide on every fide ; the lower leaves 
are cut, but the upper leaves are narrow and entire j 
they are of a filvery colour. The flowers are fmall, 
of a pale colour, and have no fcent, fo is only kept 
in botanic gardens for the fake of variety. It is pro- 
pagated by feeds, and is hardy enough to live in the 
open air. 
The fifteenth fort grows naturally in India ; this is 
an annual plant, which is commonly cultivated in gar- 
dens for ornament. Of this there are a great variety 
in the colour of their flowers, fome of them are of a 
purple approaching to black, others are of a pale pur- 
ple, fome are red, and others have variegated flowers •, 
thefe alfo vary in the (hape of their leaves, fome of 
them having finer cut leaves than others •, and fome- 
times from the fide of the flower-cup there comes 
out many (lender foot-ftalks, fuftainihg fmaJl flowers, 
in like manner as the Hen and Chicken Daifies •, but 
as thefe are accidental varieties which come from the 
fame feeds, they need not be particularly enumerated 
here. 
The flowers of this fort are very fweet, and continue 
a long time. The plants are propagated by (owing 
of their feeds, the beft time for which is about the 
latter end of May or the beginning of June, that the 
plants may get ftrength before winter ; for if they are 
fown too early in the fpring, they will flower the au- 
tumn following ; and the winter coming on foon, will 
prevent their ripening feeds ; befides, there will be 
fewer flowers upon thofe, than if they had remained 
ftrong plants through the winter, and had fent forth 
their ftower-ftems in fpring } for thefe will branch out 
on every fide, and produce a prodigious number of 
flowers, and continue a fucceflion of them on the fame 
plants from June to September, and produce good 
feeds in plenty. 
The feeds of thefe plants fhould be fown upon a (hady 
border of fre(h earth (for if they are fown upon a place 
too much expofed to the fun, and the leafon (hould 
prove dry, few of them will grow.) When the plants 
are come up, they may be traniplanted into other beds 
or borders of frefh earth, obferving to water and 
(hade them until they have taken root ; after which 
they will require no farther care but to keep them clear 
from weeds till Michaelmas, when they may be tranf- 
planted into the middle of the borders in the pleafure- 
garden, where the feveral forts being intermixed, will 
make an agreeable variety. They are extreme hardy, 
being rarely injured by cold, unlefs they have (hot up 
to flower before winter, but do not continue after ri- 
pening their feeds. 
The fixteenth fort grows naturally in Spain ; this is 
an annual plant •, the (talks rife three feet high, they 
are hairy, and are garnifhed with oblong leaves which 
are deeply notched on their edges, and thofe on the 
upper part of the (talk are cut almo(t to the midrib 
into fine fegments. The flowers ftand upon long 
foot-ftalks at the top of the (talks, thefe have globu- 
lar receptacles ; the florets are large, and fpread open 
like a (tar ; they are of a pale purple colour, appear- 
ing in July, and in favourable feafons the feeds ripen 
in September, but in cold moift years the feeds do 
not ripen here. 
It is propagated by feeds, which (hould be fown in 
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beds of light loamy earth, where the plants are to re- 
main •, when the plants come up they mud be thinned 
and kept clear from weeds, which is all the culture 
they require. 
The feventeenth fort grows naturally at the Cape of 
Good Hope •, this hath a weak fhrubby fcalk which 
divides into feveral branches, and rifes about five feet 
high ; the branches are garnifhed with oval fpear-fhap- 
ed leaves three inches long, and an inch and a half 
broad, which are entire, and deeply crenated on their 
edges ; they are of a light green, and are a little hairy. 
The flower-ftalk is produced at the end of the branches, 
fuftaining one pale flefii-coloured flower, compofed of 
many five-pointed florets. This plant continues flow- 
ering great part of fummer, and fometimes it pro- 
duces good (beds in England. 
The eighteenth fort is alfo a native of the Cape of 
Good Hope ; it hath a (hrubby (talk like the former ; 
the (talks are hairy, and divide into feveral branches, 
which are garnifhed toward the bottom with fpear- 
(haped leaves which are crenated and entire, but thofe 
on the upper part of the (talk are doubly winged. 
The flowers are produced upon long naked (talks from 
the end of the branches, they are of a pale fle(h co- 
lour, and are large, but have no fcent ; thefe are con- 
tinued in fucceflion all the fummer, and fometimes 
the early flowers are fucceeded by feeds which ripen 
in autumn. 
Both thefe forts may be propagated by cuttings, which 
may be planted in a (hady border during any of the 
fummer months •, when thefe have put out good roots, 
they (hould be taken up and planted in pots filled 
with light loamy earth, and placed in the (hade till 
they have taken new root ; then they may be removed 
to a fheltered fituation, where they may remain till the 
frofts begin, when they fhould be removed to fhelter, 
for they are too tender to live in the open air through 
the winter ; but as they only require prote&ion from 
froft, fo they (hould have as much free air as poflible 
in mild weather, to prevent their being drawn up 
weak ; therefore if they are placed in a common 
frame in winter, they will fucceed better than in a 
green-houfe j and in the middle or latter end of April, 
they may be placed in the open air in a warm fitua- 
tion, afterward treating them as other hardy foreign 
plants. 
The nineteenth fort grows naturally near Aleppo •, this 
is an annual plant, with a branching ftalk near three 
feet high, which is garnifhed with leaves at each joint 
that are varioufly cut. The flowers are produced up- 
on long foot-ftalks at the end of the branches, thefe 
have very long empalements ; the florets round the 
border are cut into feveral fringed fegments. They 
are of a flefh colour, and continue in fucceflion 
from July to autumn, and in favourable feafons 
the feeds ripen here pretty well. This is propagated 
by feeds, which fhould be fown, and the plants after- 
ward treated in the fame way as the common Sweet, 
or Indian Scabious. 
There are feveral other fpecies of this genus, but as 
they are plants which have little beauty, fo they are 
rarely admitted into gardens, therefore they are not 
enumerated here. 
SC AND IX. Tourn. Inft. R. LI. 326. tab. 173. Lin. 
Gen. Plant. 319. Shepherd’s-needle, or Venus-comb. 
The Characters are. 
It hath an umbelliferous flower •, the general umbel is long 
and has few rays , the particular umbels have many : the 
general umbel has no involucrum, the particular have a 
jive- leaved one the length of the umbels : the general um- 
bel is deformed , and has hermaphrodite florets in the 
difk , and female in the rays. The flowers have five in- 
flexed heart-fljaped petals , the inner are fmall , and the 
outer large ; they have five flender ftamina terminated by 
roundifh fummits, and an oblong germen fupporting two 
permanent flyles, crowned by obtufe ftigmas. Id he germen 
afterward turns to a long fruit divided in two parts, each 
having one furrowed feed , convex on one fide and plain on 
the other. 
This 
