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a rckndijh germen with three Jhort divaricated fiyles , and 
torn Jligma . c fbe capfule hath three cells , each contain- 
ing one roundiflo feed. 
This genus of plants, is ranged by Dr. Linnaeus, in 
the twelfth fecftion of his twenty-fecond clafs, which 
includes thofe which have male flowers on diflincc 
plants from the female, whole ftamina join at their bafe. 
The Species are, 
1. .Adelia ( Bernardia ) foliis oblongis tomentofis ferra- 
tis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 1473. Adelia with oblong, woolly, 
fawed leaves. 
2. Adelia ( Ricinella ) foliis obovatis integerrimis. Lin. 
Sp. Plant. 1473. Adelia, with oval entire leaves. 
3. Adelia ( Acidoton ) ramis flexuofis, fpinis gemmaceis. 
Amoen. Acad! 5. 41 1. Adelia with flexible branches 
and prickly gems. 
Thefe plants grow naturally in the ifland of Jamaica, 
and are near a-kin to the Ricinus, or Croton, but 
the male flowers growing upon different plants from 
the female, has occafloned their being ranged in a 
different clafs. Dr. Houftoun conftituted a genus of 
them by the title of Bernardia, in honour ta Dr. Ber- 
nard de Juflieu, demonftrator of plants in the royal 
garden at Paris •, but Dr. Linnaeus has fixed the title 
of Adelia to them. The plants are propagated by 
feeds, when thefe can be procured from the countries 
where they grow, for they do not produce good feeds - 
in England. The feeds muff be fown upon a hot- 
bed in the fpring, and when the plants are fit to re- 
move, they fliould be each tranfplanted into a feparate 
fmall pot, filled with light earth, and plunged into a 
hot-bed of tan, treating them in the fame manner as 
is hereafter directed for Croton. In the autumn, the 
pots fhould be plunged into the tan-bed in the flove, 
where, if they are kept in a temperate heat in winter, 
and not over-watered during that feafon, the plants 
may be preferved, and the fummer following will pro- 
duce flowers *, but as thefe have little beauty, the 
plants are feldom propag-ated except in botanic 
gardens. 2_ 
ADENANTHERA. Prod. Leyd. 462. Baftard 
Flower-fence. L\ 
The Characters are, 
T'he empalement of the flower is of one leaf, Jlightly cut 
into five at the top •, the flower is of the b ell -flo aped kind, 
and is conipofed of five petals , which are reflexed and con- 
cave on their under fide. In the center is fituated an oblong 
germen, fuppcrting a fiyle crowned with a Jingle Jligma ■, 
this is attended by ten erebl ftamina of the fame length , 
which are crowned with roundijh fummits after the flower 
is pafl, the germen becomes a long comprejfed pod, con- 
taining many convex finooth feeds, placed at a diftance from 
each other. 
Dr. Linnaeus ranges this genus of plants in the firfl 
fePcion of his tenth clafs, entitled Decandria mono- 
gynia, the flowers having ten ftamina and one ger- 
men ; but he feparates it from the Poinciana, becaufe 
the petals of the flower are equal, and the empale- 
ment is of one leaf, whereas the Poinciana hath a five 
leaved empalement, and the petals are unequal. 
Adenanthera foliis decompofitis. Prod. Leyd. 462. 
Baftard Flower-fence with decompounded leaves. 
There is another fpecies, or at leaf! a variety of this 
kind, with fcarlet feeds, which is at prefent rare in 
this country. I received the feeds of it from India, 
from which many plants have been railed, but they 
are of very flow growth in England. 
The fort here mentioned grows to a very large tree 
in its native country, but it is fo tender as to require 
a ftove to preferve it through the winter in England, 
fo that there are no large plants in the Englifh gar- 
dens at prefent ; the young plants which are not more 
than two feet high, have large branching leaves, com- 
pofed of many equal divifions, garnifhed with fmall 
oval leaves, which are placed alternately on the mid- 
rib, and are of a bright green colour. The Items of 
the plants are woody, the bark of a brown colour, and 
the leaves continue all the year-, but I have not feen 
any flowers produced in England as yet, but by fome 
dried famples which were brought from India, they 
feem to be fmall, and of little beauty -, the fine branch- 
ing leaves of the plant, however, make a very hand- 
fome appearance in the ftove. The feeds are of a 
fhining black colour, and are fomewhat larger than 
thofe of the great Lentil, and nearly of the fame fhape. 
This plant muft be raifed on a hot-bed, and after- 
wards placed in the bark-ftove with other tender 
exotics. 
AD H AT O DA. See Justicia. 
ADIANTHU M, i. e. Maidenhair. 
The Characters are, 
This genus is diftinguifhed from the other capillary plant 's 
by the fructification, being confufedly joined in oval fpots , 
and the points of the leaves reflexed. 
The Species are, 
1. Ad 1 a nt hum ( Capillus Veneris') frondibus decompofi- 
tis foliis alternis pinnis cuneiformibus lobatis pedi- 
cellatis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 1096. The true Maidenhair. 
Adianthum foliis Coriandri. C. B. P. 356. 
2. Adianthum (Pe datum) frondibus pedata foliolis pin- 
natis pinnis antice gibbis incifis fruftificantibus. Lin. 
Sp. Plant. 1095. American Maidenhair. Adianthum 
Americanum. Corn. Canad. 7. tab. 6. 
3. Adianthum ( Trapeziforme ) frondibus fupradecom- 
pofitis foliolis alternis, pinnis rhombeis incifis utrinque 
frudificationibus. Lin. Sp. Plant. 1097. The largeft 
black American Maidenhair with branching ft alks, and 
leaves Jhaped like the figure of a rhombus. 
There are many fpecies of this genus, which are 
natives of the Eaft and Weft-Indies, greatly dif- 
fering in fize and form from each other. I have up- 
wards of thirty diftmd fpecies in my collection of 
dried plants, which to enumerate in this place, would 
be fuperfluous, as they have not been introduced into 
the Englifh gardens. The three forts here mention- 
ed, are all that I have feen growing in England. 
The firft fort is the true Maidenhair, which is direded 
to be ufed in medicine ; but as it does not grow natu- 
rally in England, fo the Trichomanes is ufually fub- 
ftituted for it, which grows in great plenty in feveral 
parts of England. The other is a native of the fouth 
of France, Italy, and the Levant, from whence I 
have received the plants. It ufually grows out of the 
joints of walls, and 'the fiffures of rocks, fo that who- 
ever is inclinable to keep this plant in their gardens, 
fhould plant it in pots filled with gravel and lime 
rubbifh, in which it wall thrive much better than in 
good earth ; but the pots muft be fheltered under a 
frame in winter, otherwife the plants are often killed 
by the froft. 
The fecond fort is often preferved in gardens for the 
fake of variety ; this may be preferved in pots, and 
treated in the fame manner as the former for altho* 
it will live through the winter in the open air in mode- 
rate feafons, yet in fevere froft it is fometimes de- 
ftroyed. This grows naturally in Canada in fuch 
quantities, that the French fend it from thence in 
package for other goods, and the apothecaries at Paris 
ufe it for the Maidenhair, in all their compofitions in 
which that is ordered. 
The third fort grows naturally in very warm coun- 
tries ; I received it from Jamaica in a tub of earth 
among other plants. This fort will not thrive in Eng- 
land, unlefs it be preferved in a ftove, where its fhiri- 
•ing black ftalks and odd fliaped leaves will afford 
an agreeable variety among other exotic plants, 
ADNATA, ADNESCENTIA, are thofe off- 
fets, or fmall bulbs, which are produced from the 
roots of bulbous plants, and are clofely connected to 
the parent root -, of this fort is the Narcifius, Amaryl- 
lis, Pancratium, &c. 
ADOMIDIS HORTI, i. e. the gardens of Ado- 
nis, are plants, flowers, &c. in pots or cafes, fet on 
the outfide of windows, in balconies, &c. 
ADONIS, or FLOS ADONIS, Bird’s-eye, or 
Pheafant’s-eye. 
The Characters are. 
The empalement of the flower is compofed of Jive concave , 
obtufe, coloured leaves which fa.ll off ; the flower is com- 
pofed in fome fpecies of five petals, and in others of twelve 
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