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The germen becomes a globular berry with three cells , in- 
dexing one globular feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond feflion 
of Linnaeus’s twenty-fecond clafs, which includes thofe 
plants which have male and female flowers on diffe- 
rent plants. 
The Species are, 
1. Schinus {Molle) folds pinnatis, foliolis ferratis, 
impari longiffimo, petioloaequaii. Lin. Sp. Plant. 338. 
Schinus with winged leaves whofe lobes are flawed , the 
end one being very long, and the foot-ftalks equal. Len- 
tifeus Peruviana. C. B. P. 399. Peruvian Maftick- 
tree ■, and the Molle. Clu'f. Mon. 322. the Arbor Molle. 
2. Schinus ( Areira ) foliis pinnatis, foliolis integer- 
rimis aequalibus, petiolo asquali. Lin. Sp. Plant. 1467. 
Peruvian Maftick-tree with winged leaves , whofe lobes 
and foot-fhalks- are equal , and the lobes entire. Molle fo- 
liis non ferratis. Feuill. Peruv. 3. p. 43. Molle with 
unfawed leaves. 
Both thefe forts grow naturally in Peru and Mexico, 
from which countries I have received the feeds. The 
* firft fort rifes with a woody ftem eight or ten feet high, 
dividing into many branches, covered with a brown 
rough bark ; the leaves are placed alternate on the 
branches ; they are compofed of feveral pair of lobes, 
from ten to fifteen, and are terminated by one lobe 
which is longer than the others •, the lobes are about 
an inch and a half long, and a quarter of an inch 
broad at their bafe, leffening gradually to the point, 
and have a few faws on their edges j they are of a 
lucid green, and emit a turpentine odour when 
bruifed. The flowers are produced in loofe bunches 
at the end of the branches ; they are very fmall, white, 
and have no odour, compofed of five fmall petals 
which fpread open ; thefe have fmall empalements 
of one leaf, indented in five parts at the brim. They 
appear in July, but are not fucceeded by feeds in 
England. 
This plant is propagated beft by feeds, which muft 
be procured from the countries where they naturally 
grow : thefe fhould be fown in pots filled with freff 
earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed. If the 
feeds are good, the plants will appear in about five or 
fix weeks ; and if they are properly managed by ad- 
mitting frefh air daily to them, according to the 
warmth of the feafon, and are duly refrefhed with 
water, they will be fit to tranfplant in about five or 
fix weeks after, when they fhould be carefully turned 
out of the pots and thei» roots feparated •, then they 
muft be each planted in a fmall pot filled with foft 
loamy earth, and plunged again into a moderate hot- 
bed, fhading them from the fun till they have taken 
frefh root •, then they muft be gradually inured to the 
open air, into which they fhould be removed foon af- 
ter, placing them in a fheltered fituation, where they 
may remain till autumn, but they muft be removed 
into fhelter before the firft frofts, otherwife their tops 
will be killed, and thereby the plants are frequently 
deftroyed. 
Thefe plants are tender when young, fo require a 
little warmth in winter •, but after two or three years 
growth, they will live in a good green-houfe, where, 
as they retain their leaves all the year, they will make 
a good variety. It may alfo be propagated by layers 
and cuttings ; the layers fhould be put down in the 
fpring, and by the following fpring they will be root- 
ed ; the cuttings fhould be planted in April, which 
will put out roots in about two months, and may af- 
terward be treated as the feedling plants. 
The fecond fort differs from the firft, in having en- 
tire lobes to the leaves, which are not fawed and are 
equal in fize. 
This fort is propagated in the fame manner as the 
firft, but as the young plants of it are much tenderer 
than thofe, fo they will require to be placed in a mo- 
derate ftove for four or five winters, after which time 
they may be kept in a good green-houfe, giving them 
little water in winter. 
S C ILL A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 378. Lilio-Hyacinthus. 
Tourn. Inft. R. H. 371. tab. 196. [fo called of cAxhu, 
s c 1 
to make dry, becaufe this plant grows in dry places 5 
or as others will have it, of crxuAAw, I am molefted 
becaufe the bulb of this plant, by its acrimony, irri- 
tates the parts to which it is applied.] Squills. 
The Characters are. 
The flower has no empalement ; it has fix oval petals 
whiih fpread open like a ftar, and fix awl-jhaped jlamina 
not more than half the length of the petals , terminated by 
oblong proftrate fummits. It has a roundifh germen flip - • 
porting a Jingle Jlyle , crowned by a Jingle Jligma, The 
germen afterward becomes a flnooth oval capfule with 
three furrows, divided into three cells , which are filled with 
roundijh feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftion of 
Linnaeus’s fixth clafs, which includes thofe plants 
whofe flowers have fix ftamina and one ftyle. To this 
genus he added the Lilio-Hyacinthus, and feveral of 
Tournefort’s fpecies of Ornithogalums. 
The Species are, 
1. Scilla ( Maritima ) nudiflora brafleis refradtis. Lin. 
Sp. Plant. 442. Squill with naked flowers, whofe hr able a 
are broken. Scilla vulgaris, radice rubra. C. B. P. 73. 
Common Squill with a red root. 
2. Scilla ( Lilio-Hyacinthus ) radice fquamata. Hort. 
Cliff. 123. Squill with a fcaly root. Lilio-Hyacinthus 
vulgaris, flore caeruleo. Tourn. Inft. 372. Common 
Lily Hyacinth with a blue flower. 
3. Scilla ( Italica ) corymbo conferto hemifpherico. Lin. 
Sp. Plant. 442. Squill with an her [Spherical corymbus 
of flowers. Ornithogalum fpicatum caeruleum. Tourn. 
Inft. R. H. 380 Blue fpiked Star-flower. 
4. Scilla ( Peruviana ) corymbo conferto conico. Lin. 
Sp. Plant. 309. Squill with a conical corymbus of flowers. 
Ornithogalum caeruleum Lufitanicum, latifolium. 
Tourn. Inft. 381. Portugal, blue, broad-leaved Star- 
flower, commonly called Hyacinth of Peru. 
5. Scilla ( Amcena ) floribus lateralibus alternis fubnu- 
tantibus. Hort. Cliff. 123. Squill with flowers growing 
alternately from . the fldes of the folk, which almoft nod. 
Hyacinthus ftellaris caeruleus amcenus. C. B. P. Fine 
blue ftarry Hyacinth. 
6 . Scilla ( Bifolia ) radice folida, floribus lateralibus 
ereftiufeulis paucioribus. Hort. Cliff 123. Squill with 
a folid root, and ere St flowers growing thinly. Ornitho- 
galum bifolium Germanicum caeruleum. Tourn. Inft. 
380. Blue German Star-flower with two leaves, commonly 
called the early blue ftarry Hyacinth. 
7. Scilla ( Autumnalis ) foliis filiformibus linearibus flo* 
ribus corymbofis, pedunculis nudis adfeendentibus 
longitudine floris. Lin. Sp. Plant. 443. Squill with 
fender linear leaves, flowers growing in a corymbus, and 
naked foct-ftalks rifling over each other to the length of the 
flowers. Ornithogalum autumnale minus, floribus 
caeruleis. Tourn. Inft. 381. Smaller autumnal Star-flow- 
er with blue flowers, commonly called autumnal ftarry Hy- 
acinth. 
8. Scilla ( Hifpanica ) radice folida, floribus paniculatis 
fubnutantibus. Squill with a folid root, and flowers 
growing in panicles which almoft nod. Ornitnogalum 
Hifpanicum fature caeruleum. Tourn. Inft. 381. Star- 
flower of Spain with deep blue flowers. 
9. Scilla {Purpurea) radice folida, racemo conico, flo- 
ribus numerofis adfeendentibus. Squill with a folid root, 
and a conical fpike of many flowers rifling above each other. 
Ornithogalum purpureum. Tourn. Inft. 380. Purple 
Star-flower. 
10. Scilla {Eriophora) radice folida, corymbo conferto 
hemifpherico, fcapo longiffimo. Squill with a folid root, 
an hemifpherical corymbus, and the longcft ftalk. Orni- 
thogalum Eriophorum,Peruvianum. Tourn. Inft. 381. 
Woolly Star-flower of Peru. 
The firft is the Squill or Sea Onion whofe roots are 
ufed in medicine, of which there are two forts, one 
with a red, and the other a white root, which are fup- 
pofed to be accidental varieties, but the white are ge- 
nerally preferred for medicinal ufe. The roots are 
very large, fomewhat Pear-fhaped, compofed of ma- 
ny coats lying over each other like Onions j at the 
bottom come out feveral fibres which ftrike deep in 
the ground. From the middle of the root arife feve- 
