ANA 
’That fort with green fruit, if {offered to ripen well, 
is of an Olive colour ; but there are fome perfons who 
cut them before they are ripe, when they are not fit 
to be eaten, for no other reafon but to have them 
green : and although many perfons have much recom- 
mended this fort for its excellent flavour, yet I think 
the Sugar-loaf fort is much to be preferred to it. 
This Sugar-loaf fort is eafily diftinguifhed from all 
the other, by its leaves having purple ftripes on their 
infide the whole length. The fruit is of a paler co- 
lour than the others when ripe, inclining to a ftraw 
colour. This fort was brought from Brafil to Ja- 
maica, where it is efteemed far beyond the other 
kinds. 
The next in goodnefs to this, is what the inhabitants 
of. the iflands in America call the Montferrat Pine *, 
the leaves of this are of a dark brown, inclining to 
purple on their infide •, the protuberances of the fruit 
are longer and flatter than thofe of the common fort. 
I raifed feveral plants of this fort from feeds which 
I received from the ifland of St. Thomas, where this 
fruit is in greater perfection than in any of the Britifti 
iflands. 
As fome of the fruit produce feeds in England, when 
the greater number have no appearance of any, I 
doubt not whether there are not fome with male, and 
others with hermaphrodite flowers •, becaufe thofe 
fruit which have feeds, are remarkably different from 
the others, when cut through the cells in which the 
feeds are lodged, lying nearer to the center of the 
fruit than the abortive cells, which are chiefly clofe 
to the rind •, but not having diftinguifhed this dif- 
ference till the fruit was cut, I had no opportunity of 
examining their flowers. 
I have continued this title of Ananas to the genus, 
being the moft generally known and ufed, left by al- 
tering it, the practical gardeners fhould be rather con- 
fufed than inftruded : and I was the rather inclined 
to this, as Dr. Linnaeus has miftaken the characters 
of the three genera, which he has joined in one. The 
different varieties are alfo “enumerated, for the fake 
of thofe who cultivate the fruit, though they are not 
diftinCt fpecies, but vary in their fhape, colour, and 
flavour, the fame as other fruits. Therefore, as this 
work is intended to inftruCt the practical gardener, 
the mentioning thefe varieties is more excufable here, 
than in thofe books which are only intended for the 
improvement of botany. 
AN APODOPHYLLON. See Podophyllum. 
ANAS TAT I C A, Rofe of Jericho. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a four leaved empalement , which falls of ; the 
flower has four petals placed cr cjj- wife , which fpread open , 
whofe tails are the length of the tube of the empalement , 
and fix awl- f aped Jlamina , two of which are floor ter than 
the other four , crcwned with roundifh fummits , and a 
fmall bifid germen, fupporting an awl-fhaped ftyls the length 
of the Jlamina , and is permanent , crowned by a headed 
fummit. The germen afterward becomes a fort bilocular 
pod) having an awl-f aped partition placed obliquely to the 
pod , and is longer. 
We have but one Species of this genus in the Eng- 
lifh gardens, viz. 
Anastatica ( Hierocuntica ) foliis obtufis, fpicis axillari- 
bus breviflimis, filiculis ungulatis fpinofls. Lin. Sp. 
895. Rofe of Jericho with obtufe leaves , fort fpikes of 
flowers at the wings of the fialks , and prickly pods. 
This plant grows naturally in Paleftine and Cairo, in 
fandy places near the fea. The ftaiks are ligneous 
though the plant is annual ; it rifes five or fix inches 
high, dividing into many irregular branches the 
flowers which are fmall and white, are difpofed in 
Ihort fpikes at the wings of the ftaiks, and have little 
beauty ; thefe are fucceeded by fnort prickly pods, 
having two cells, in each of which are two feeds. 
It is preferved in botanic gardens for the variety, and 
in fome curious gardens for the oddnefs of the plant, 
which, if taken up before it is withered, and preferved 
entire in a dry room, may be long preferved ; and 
after being many years kept in this fituation, if the 
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root is placed in a glafs of water a few hours, the buds 
of flowers will fwell, open, and appear, as if newly 
taken out of the ground, to the great furprife of moft 
people. 
The plant is annual, fo can only be propagated by 
feeds, which rarely ripen in England, uniefs the feeds 
are fown upon a hot-bed in the fpring, and the plants 
afterward put into pots, which fhould be plunged 
into another hot-bed to bring them forward ; for al- 
though the feeds will come up in the full ground 
where the foil is dry, yet the plants rarely rife to any 
flze, nor do they perfed feeds uniefs the fummer is 
very hot and dry : but if the plants are kept in a 
frame, giving them free air in warm weather, they 
will flower in June, and the- feeds will ripen in Sep- 
tember. 
A N A I OMY [’A vdlofix,) of ’Ai idlfvcO) Gr. to difledj, 
a difiedion. 
Anatomy of plants is a cutting, dividing, or feparat- 
ing the parts or members of plants, in order to dif- 
cover the flze, form, ftrudure, and ufes of their fe- 
veral veflfels, for the better promoting their culture. 
Anatomifts have obferved a great fimilitude betwixt 
the mechanic frame of plants and animals : the parts 
of plants feeming to bear a conftant analogy to thofe 
of animals ; and the ceconomy, both vegetable and 
animal, feem to be formed on the fame model. 
The parts of a plant are the root, the wood, the bark, 
and the pith. 
1. The roots of the plants are fpongeous bodies, 
whofe parts are difpofed for the eafy admittance of 
certain humid particles, which are prepared in the 
ground. The quality of the root is found much to 
depend upon the flze of its veflels and pores. 
Monfieur Renaume fuppofes the root of a plant to do 
the office of all the parts in the abdomen of animals, 
which ferve to nutrition, as the ftomach, inteftines, 
&c. 
Dr. Boerhaave confiders the roots of plants to be 
compofed of a number of abforbent veflels, which are 
analogous to the ladeals in animals. 
The root, according to Dr. Van Royen, is that part 
of the plant by which the nutriment is taken in, or 
that by which the aliment is attracted, as Theophraf- 
tus has defined it : but it is not all that part, which is 
committed to the earth, to be nourifhed by the mat- 
ter which is about it, which is properly to be called 
the trunk of the root ; this is to be referred rather to 
the ftalk or ftem, than to the root, in that it confifts 
of the fame implicated kinds of veflels •, but that part 
which is by its furface contiguous to the exterior ma- 
trix, which, being perforated with infinite little 
mouths, promotes the received moiftures, that they 
may be afterwards carried, by veflels not unlike to 
ladeal ones, into the very body of the plant ; this is 
properly to be called the root. 
Which definition, although it may feem too ftrid, 
is the moft general, and applicable to all plants ; for 
it agrees as well with them which have no root, as 
the vulgar opinion is, as to thofe which have a mani- 
fell root ; of the former kind there are but very few 
plants, but of the latter a great many. 
As to thofe that want a manifeft root, the fuperficies 
of them is found to be perforated on all fldes with 
very fmall holes, by which they take in their nutri- 
ment, as in the Porno Aurantio, called Meptuni, or 
Pila Marina by fifhermen, and many other fubmarine 
plants ; and in thefe the whole fuperficies ferves for 
roots, as is plainly feen in fome ftony plants that 
grow under the fea, and may be in lbrhe fort proved 
to be deduced from the analogy of animals ; for thefe 
being become fui generis , take in aliment, not only 
by the mouth, but alfo the whole furface, expofed to 
the moift air, feems to ferve to the fame defign. But 
although thefe fubmarine bodies have, by moft natu- 
ralifts, been ranged with vegetables,; yet, by later 
difeoveries, many of them have been found to con fill: 
of beds of infeds, inclofed in fmall cavities of thefe 
incrufted bodies, therefore fhould rather be ranged 
with minerals. 
But 
