plants, growing naturally upon bogs, are with diffi- 
culty preferved in gardens. 
ANTHERS [from 'Aihfc flowery,] are the fum- 
mits or little tops in the middle of a flower, fupported 
by the ftamina. 
ANTHOLOGY [of ’'A^, a flower, and \6y&, 
Gr. a word,] a difcourfe or treadle, of flowers. 
ANTHOLYZA. We have no Englifh name for 
this plant. 
The Characters are, 
It hath an imbricated J heath growing alternate , which 
is permanent the flower is of one leaf \ tubulous , and 
opens above with compreffed jaws. The upper lip is /lender , 
long , erebl , and waved-, the two jaws are floor t , and 
joined at their bafe the under lip is trifid , floort , and the 
middle fegment turns downward it hath three long J, lender 
ftamina , two of which are under the upper lip , and the 
other lies in the under lip thefe are crowned by pointed 
fummits. Under the flower is fituated the germen , fup- 
porting a J, lender ftyle the length of the ftamina , which is 
crowned by a fender , trifid , reflexed ftigma. 'The germen 
afterward becomes a roundifh three-cornered veffel having 
thyee cells , in which are lodged many triangular feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedion of 
Linnaeus’s third clafs, entitled Triandria Monogynia, 
the flowers having three ftamina and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Antholyza ( Ringens ) corolla labiis divaricatis fauce 
eompreflb. Lin. Sp. Plant. 54. Antholyza whofe flower- 
lips fpread afunder. Gladiolus floribus ridum referens 
coccineus fuprema lacinia ereda & fiftulofa. Breyn. 2 1 . 
2. Antholyza ( Spicata ) foliis linearibus fulcatis floribus 
albis uno verfu difpofitis. Fig. Plant, pi. 40. Antho- 
lyza with narrow furrowed leaves , and white flow- 
ers ranged on one fide of the ftalk. 
The firft fort hath round, red, bulbous roots, from 
which arife feveral rough furrowed leaves, near a foot 
long, and half an inch broad ; between thefe comes 
out the flower-ftem immediately from the root, which 
rifes two feet high, is hairy, and hath feveral flowers 
coming out on each fide. Thefe are of one leaf, cut 
into fix unequal parts at the top : one of thefe feg- 
ments is ftretched out much beyond the other, Hand- 
ing ered the margins are waved and clofed to- 
gether, wrapping up the three ftamina. The flowers 
are red, and appear in June, and the feeds ripen in 
September. 
The roots of the fecond fort are in Ihape and fize like 
thofe of the Vernal Crocus, but the outer fkin is thin 
and white ; from this arifes five or fix long narrow 
leaves, which are deeply furrowed. Between thefe 
arife the flower-ftem, which is a foot and a half high, 
bending on one fide toward the top, where the flowers 
come out, ranged on one fide, Handing erect. Thefe 
have each a fpatha or ftieath, of one leaf, divided into 
two, ending in points, which are permanent. The 
flower is of one leaf, having a long tube, but is di- 
vided into fix unequal fegments at the top, which 
fpread open, their margins being waved and turned 
inward. The three ftamina rife under the upper feg- 
ment, which is larger than the others, and below is 
fituated the trifid ftyle, crowned with purple ftigma. 
After the flower is paft, the germen becomes a three- 
cornered feed-veflel, opening in three cells, which are 
filled with triangular feeds. The flow'ers of this fort 
are white, appear in May, and the feeds ripen in 
Auguft. 
Thefe plants are natives of Africa, from whence their 
feeds have been obtained, and were firft raifed in the 
Dutch gardens, where one of the forts has long 
been an ornament in the curious gardens of that 
country. 
They are propagated by offsets, which the bulbous 
roots fend forth in pretty great plenty ; or by feeds, 
which are fometimes perfected in Europe. Thefe 
feeds fhould be fown foon after they are ripe ; for if 
they are kept out of the ground till the following 
fpring, they often mifcarry, or at leaft remain a year 
in the ground before they grow. If the feeds are fown 
in pots of fight earth, and plunged into an old bed of 
tan which has loft its heat, and fhaded in the middle 
of the day in hot weather, the feeds will come up the 
following winter; therefore they muft be kept covered 
with glaffes to fcreen them from cold, otherwife the 
young plants will be deftroyed. Thefe may remain 
in the. pots two years, if the plants are not too clofe, 
by which time they will have ftrength enough to be 
planted each into a feparate fmall pot filled with light 
earth. The time for tranfplanting of thefe roots is 
in July or Auguft, when their leaves are decayed. 
In fummer the pots may be placed in the open air, 
but in winter they muft be removed, and placed under 
a hot-bed frame, for they are not very tender ; but 
where any damp arifes, it is very apt to occafion a 
mouldinefs upon their leaves. The roots fhoot up in 
autumn, and the flowers begin to appear in May ; 
the feeds ripen in Auguft, and foon after their leaves 
and ftalks decay ; when the roots may be taken up, 
and kept fix weeks or two months out of the ground, 
fo may be eafily tranfported from one country to 
another at that time. Thefe flowers are ornamental 
when they appear, and they are plants which require 
but little culture, fo deferve a place in every good 
garden. 
ANTHOSPERMUM, Amber-tree, vulgo. 
The Characters are. 
It is male and female in different plants % the male flowers 
have no petals , but a coloured empalement of one leaf, 
which is act into four parts almofl to the bottom. Out of 
the bottom arifes four fender ftamina, crowned with oblong 
fquare fummits , having a deep furrow through their middle. 
The female flowers have the fame ftrudlure as the male , 
but have no ftamina inftead of which , there is an oval 
germen , fituated in the bottom , fupporting two recurved 
ftyles croivned with a /lender ftigma. The germen afterward 
becomes a roundiflo capfule having four cells , which contain 
feveral angular feeds. 
Dr. Linnmus has ranged this genus in his twentieth 
clafs of plants, but it properly belongs to his twenty- 
fecond, becauie the plants are male and female in dif- 
ferent plants -, whereas thofe of his twenty-third, have 
male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers on the fame 
plant. 
Anthospermum {.Mthiopicum') foliis laevibus. Hort, 
Cliff 7 . 455. Amber -tree with fmooth leaves. 
This plant has been long known in the curious gar- 
dens, under the title of Frutex Africanus, ambram 
fpirans, or Amber-tree. 
It is preferved in moft curious gardens which have 
collections of tender plants, and is eafily propagated 
by planting cuttings during any of the fummer 
months, in a border of light earth ; which will take 
root in fix weeks time, provided they are watered and 
fhaded as the feafon may require : or if thefe cuttings 
are planted in pots, and plunged into a very moderate 
hot-bed, they will take root looner, and there will 
be a greater certainty of their growrng. Afterward 
they fhould be taken up, with a ball of earth to their 
roots, and planted into pots filled with light fandy 
earth, and may be expofed to the open air until Oc- 
tober-, at which time they fhould be removed into 
the confervatory, where they fhould be placed as free 
as poffible from being over-hung with other plants 
and, during the winter feafon, they muft be refrefhed 
with water, but fhould not have too much given them 
each time and fhould have as much air admitted to 
them as the weather will permit, for if they are kept 
too clofe, they will be fubjed to grow mouldy, and 
generally decay foon after fo that if the green-houfe 
is damp, it will be difficult to prderve thefe plants 
through the winter. 
The beauty of this fhrub is in its fmall ever-green 
leaves, which grow as clofe as heath ; which being 
bruifed between the fingers, emit a very fragrant 
odour; Thefe plants muft be frequently renewed by 
cuttings, for the old plants are very fubjed to decay, 
feldom continuing above three or four years. 
It is but of late years there have been any of the fe- 
male plants in the gardens, for all thofe which were 
formerly in the gardens, were the male, which being 
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