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thirty years cultivating it, I can affirm it never alters-, 
and the plants before they fhew their flowers are io 
different, as to be eafily difting'uifhed from the firft. 
There is a variety of this with a deeper blue flower, 
whole feeds I received from Nice, and this hath re- 
• tained its colour for three years, during which time I 
have fown it in the Chelfea garden. 
Thefe ate all annual plants which arife from feeds, and, 
if fullered to remain till their feeds' fcatter, will become 
weeds in the place fo that they are never cultivated, 
except in botanic gardens for variety. The firft and 
fecond forts are directed by the College of Phyficians 
for medicinal ufe. 
The third fort is a very beautiful, ffnall, perennial plant, 
producing great numbers of fine blue flowers, in 
April and May : this may be propagated by feeds, 
which fliould be fown foon after they are ripe *, for if 
they are kept till fpring, they do not always fucceed : 
this plant requires to be flickered from extreme cold, 
which will fometimes deftroy it in winter. 
The fourth fort was lent me from Spain by Mr. Hor- 
, tega, intenclant of the royal gardens at Madrid. This 
is a trading annual plant, with broad leaves and blue 
flowers. It will eafily rife from feeds, and requires 
no other care but to keep the plants clean from 
weeds. 
There are two varieties of the firft fort, one with a 
white, and the other a flefh-coloured flowery but as 
they are not conftant, I have not inferted them as 
different fpecies. There is alfo another with a worn- 
out purple flower, which has feveral years continued 
the fame in the Chelfea garden •, but as there is little 
difference in the leaves of this and the firft, I have 
not enumerated it. 
ANAGYRIS, Stinking Bean-trefoil. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a bell-japed empalement , which is cut into five 
parts at the brim , the upper fegment being much deeper 
cut than the others. I he flower is of the butterfly kind , 
the ftandard is heart-japed , upright , broad , and indented. 
This is- much longer than the empalement the wings are 
oblong , plain , and longer than the ftandard -, the keel is 
long and upright : it hath ten ftamina , which rifle diftinbl , 
and are equal , crowned with Jingle fummits. In the center 
is placed an oblong germen, fupporting a Jingle fiyle , having 
a hairy ftigrna. The germen afterward becomes a large 
oblong pod , which is reflexed at the point , in which is 
lodged feveral kidney -/leaped feeds. 
Dr. Linn sens ranges this genus in his tenth clafs of 
plants, entitled Decandria Monogynia, the flower 
having ten ftamina, and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Anagyris ( Pcetida ) folds ovatis floribus lateralibus. 
Stinking Bean-trefoil with oval leaves , and flowers pro- 
ceeding from the wings of the /talks. Anagyris feetida. 
C. B. I 3 . 391. 
2. Anagyris ( Cretica ) foliis oblongis racemis longiori- 
bus. Stinking Bean-trefoil with oblong leaves , and longer 
j pikes of flowers. Anagyris feetida Cretica oblongis fo- 
liis luteis floribus. Barrel. Icon. 
The firft fort grows wild in the fouth of France, in 
Spain and Italy : this is a fhrub which ufually rifes 
to the height of eight or ten feet, and produces its 
flowers in April and May, which are of a bright yel- 
low colour, growing in ipikes, fomewhat like thofe 
of the Laburnum : the feeds are never perfected in 
this country, which is the reafon of its prefent fcarcity 
in England. 
The other fort is a native of Candia, and feme of the 
iflands of the Archipelago, and at prefent very rare 
in the Englifh gardens. This fort hath longer leaves 
than the former, and flowers later in the fummer, fo 
tha£ it never produces feeds. 
Thefe may be both propagated by laying down their 
tender' branches' in the fpring, obferving to tongue 
' them in the fame manner the layers of Carnations, 
being careful in dry, weather to iupply them with 
water; which if duly performed, the layers will have 
taken root by the following fpring, when they fliould 
be cut off from the old plants, a little time before 
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they begin to put out their leaves, and planted in a 
warm fituation ; for if they are too much expofed to 
cold winds, they will be in danger of being deftroyed 
in a hard winter. This method of propagating thefe 
plants, is to iupply their defedt in not producing ripe 
feeds in this country -, for the plants which are pro- 
duced from feeds, will be much handfomer, and will 
rife to a much greater height. 
If you propagate thefe plants from feeds, you fliould 
fow them on a moderate hot-bed the beginning of 
March. If the feeds are good, the plants will appear 
in a month after the feeds are fown ; when they fliould 
be inured by degrees to the open air, into which they 
fliould be removed toward the end of May, placing 
them in a flickered fituation ; for this purpofe the 
feeds fliould be fowed in pots, and plunged into a 
hot-bed, becaufe the plants do not bear tranfplanting 
well till the fpring following : and as they are impa- 
tient of cold while young, fo the two firft winters it 
will be proper to flieher them under a common frame, 
where the glaffes may be drawn off every day in mild 
weather, that the plants may enjoy the open air, 
which will prepare them for planting abroad when 
they have acquired proper ftrength: it will be very 
proper to keep thefe plants in pots three years, in 
which time they will have advanced to be in proper 
condition for planting them into the places where they 
are intended to remain the beft time for this is about 
the beginning of April, juft before the plants begin 
to put out new leaves : at which time they ftiould be 
turned out of the pots, preferving good balls of earth 
to their roots, planting fome of them againft warm 
afpefled walls, where they will not be in danger of 
fuffering by froft ; and the others may be planted in 
warm fituations, where, if they are protected in fevere 
winters, by covering the furface of the ground about 
their roots with tanners bark, and fereening their 
heads with mats, they may be preferved feveral years. 
The fourth year from feeds thefe plants will begin to 
produce their flowers, and will continue flowering 
every year after, fo will be very proper to intermix 
with other flowering fhrubs of the fame growth in 
warm fituations. 
ANANAS, the Pine-apple. 
The Characters are, 
The flower confi/is of three oval petals , which are pro- 
duced from the protuberances of the pyramidal fruit , and 
are Jiretched out beyond the empalement. Thefe have fix 
awl-Jhaped J lamina , which /land within the flower , crovJned 
with fpear-Jhaped fummits : the germen is fituated below 
the flower , flupporting a fender ftyle , crowned with a trifid 
ftigma. The germen afterward becomes a cell, in which 
is lodged feveral angular feeds. 
Dr. Linnaeus has joined this to the Bromelia of father 
Plumier, to which he has alfo added the Karatas of 
the fame author, fuppofing them to be of the fame 
genus ; which miftake he may have been led into by 
Plumier’s figures, for he has joined the fruit of the 
Caraguata to the flowers of the Karatas, and vice verfa . 
The other differences will be exhibited under the ar- 
ticle Karatas. 
The Varieties of this are, 
1. Ananas ( Ovatus ) aculeatus, fru&u ovato, carne al- 
bida. Plum. Oval-Japed Pine-apple , with a whiti/h 
fle/h. 
2. Ananas ( Pyramidalis ) aculeatus, frudeu pyramidato, 
carne aurea. Plum. Pyramidal Pine-apple , with a 
yellowi/h fle/h, called the Sugar-loaf Pine. 
3. Ananas ( Glabra ) folio vix ferrato. Boerh. Ind. Alt. 
2. 83. Pine-apple with flmooth leaves. ' 
4. Ananas ( Lucidus ) lucide virens, folio vix ferrato. 
Hort. Elth. Pine-apple with Joining green leaves , and 
fcarce any fpines on their edges. 
5. Ananas ( Serotinus ) fruftu pyramidato olivae colore, 
intus aureo. Pyramidal Olive-coloured Pine-apple , with 
a yellow fliejh. 
6 . Ananas ( Viridis ) aculeatus, fruAu pyramidato ex 
viridi fiavefeente. The green Pine-apple. 
There are feveral other varieties of this fruit, fome of 
which may have been obtained from feeds-, and I 
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