*The thirtieth fort is a native of China, from whence 
the feeds were fent to France by the miflionaries, 
where the plants were firfb raifed in Europe. In the 
year 1731, I received feeds of this, from which I 
raifed plants with red, and fome with white flowers s, 
and in 1 736, I received feeds of the blue flower, but 
thefe were all fingle. They came by the title of La 
Reine Marguerette, or the Queen of Dailies, by which 
title the French ftill call it. In 1 752, I received 
feeds of the double flowers both red and blue, and 
in 1753, the feeds of the double white fort, from my 
worthy friend Dr. Job Baiter, F. R. S. of Zirkzee. 
Thefe have retained their difference, from that time 
without variation, yet as they are generally fuppofed 
to be only varieties, I have not inferred them as dif- 
ferent ipecics. 
As thefe are annual plants, they are only propagated 
by feeds, which mult be fown in the fpring upon a 
gentle hot-bed, juft to bring up the plants ; tor they 
fhould be inured to the open air as loon as poifible, 
to prevent their being drawn up very weak : when 
the plants are big enough to remove, they ihould be 
carefully taken up and planted in a bed of rich eartn 
at fix inches diftance each way, obferving to fhade 
them from the fun till they have taken new root ; 
and if the feafon proves dry, they muff be often re- 
frefhed with water. In this bed they may remain a 
month or five weeks, by which time they will be 
flrong enough to transplant into the borders of the 
flower-garden where they are defigned to remain •, the 
plants fhould be taken up carefully, with large balls 
of earth to their roots, and the ground dug up and 
well broken with the fpade, where the holes are made 
to receive the plants : after they are planted, and 
the earth doled about their roots, there fhould be 
fome water given them to fettle the earth. This 
work fhould, if poflible, be done when there is rain, 
for then the plants will foon take new root, after 
which time they will require no other care but to keep 
them clear from weeds. , 
In Auguff thefe plants will flower, by which time if 
the ground is rich in which they are planted, they will 
be two feet high, and furnifned with many fide 
branches, each of which is terminated by a large ra- 
diated flower, fome white, fome red, and others blue. 
Thefe are fome of the greateft ornaments in the flower- 
garden in autumn, during their time of flowering. 
The feeds ripen the beginning of October, which 
fhould be gathered when it is perfeftly dry •, and in 
order to o refer ve the kinds with double flowers, thofe 
which grow upon the fide branches, which are com- 
monly fuller of leaves than the flowers on the main 
fem, fhould always be preferved for feeds. 
The thirty-firft fort was difcovered by the late Dr. 
Houfton in the year 1731, at La Vera Cruz in New 
Spain. This is an annual plant, which rifes with an 
upright ftalk about one foot high, garnifhed the 
whole length with winged leaves, each confiding of 
two or three pair of lobes, terminated by an odd 
one : each of thefe lobes are heart-fhaped, and fawed 
on their edges ; at the top of the italk is produced 
one large Orange-coloured flower, having a fingle 
empalement, cut into many (lender fegments which 
end in points. After the flower is pail, each floret 
is fucceeded by an oblong angular feed, crowned 
with long down. This is propagated by feeds, which 
fhould be fown on a moderate hot-bed in the Ipring ; 
and when the plants are fit to remove, they muff be 
each planted into a feparate fmall pot filled with rich 
earth, and plunged into the tan-bed, obferving to 
fhade them until they have taken new' root, as alfo 
to refrefn them with w'ater, and in warm weather ad- 
mit free air to the plants. When thefe pots are filled 
with their roots, the plants fhould be carefully fhaken 
out i and after paring off the outfide roots, put into 
larger pots, filled with light earth, and plunged into 
■the hot-bed again, where they may remain to flower 
and perfect their feeds, for they will not thrive in the 
open air. This fort flowers in July, and the feeds 
ripen in September. 
The thirfy-fecosid fort was difcovered by the late Dry 
William Houfton, in. the year 1720, growing in plenty 
in the Tandy ground about Vera Cruz, in America, 
where he drew' the figure, and made a defcription of 
the plant upon the fpot ; which he fent to England 
with the feeds, fome of which grew in the Chelfel 
garden, and the plants flowered the following fummer, 
but did not perfect their feeds. 
It hath buftiy fibrous roots, which' creep in the 
ground, and fend out many {lender round {talks, 
which bend and incline to the ground. Thefe are 
about four or five inches long, deftitute of leaves, 
each fuftaining one flower, in fhape and fize of thofe 
of the common Field Dailey, of a whitifh purple co- 
lour, but the rays are narrower. The difk is com- 
pofed of feveral florets, which are fucceeded by fmall 
feeds crowned with a pappous down. The empale- 
ment which includes the flowers, is fcaly. 
As this plant is a native of a warm climate, it will 
not live in the open air in England ; therefore the 
feeds muff be fown in a hot-bed, and the plants 
will require a fcove to maintain them through the 
winter. 
The thirty-third fort is a native of North America. 
This hath upright italics about three feet high, gar- 
nifhed wfith fpear-fhaped fawed leaves ; the flowers 
are produced in bunchy panicles, having rough em~ 
palements. It flowers the end of Augufir, and is pro- 
pagated by parting the roots in autumn. 
The thirty-fourth fort grows naturally in Siberia •, the 
ftalks are ftriated about two feet high, fending out fide 
branches, garnifhed with rough, veined, fpear-fhap- 
ed leaves ; the foot-ftalks of the flowers are woolly, 
each fupporting one large blue flower. This flowers 
in Auguff, and is propagated by parting the roots 
in autumn. 
The thirty-fifth fort fends up rough ftalks about two 
feet high, dividing toward the top into many forked 
branches, diverging from each other, garnifiled be- 
low with oval fawed leaves ; but the flowering ftalks 
have entire obtufe leaves which embrace them with 
their bafe ; the flowers are growing almoft in an 
umbel j thefe appear the beginning of September. 
It is propagated by parting the roots as the 
former. 
ASTERISCUS. See Buphthalmum. 
ASTEROIDES, Baftard Starwort. See Inula. 
ASTRAGALOIDES. See Phaca. 
ASTRAGALUS, Wild Liquorice, Liquorice 
Vetch, or Milk Vetch. 
The Characters are, 
It hath a butterfly flower , whofle empalement is of one 
leaf, cut into five acute fegments at the top. Lhs flan- 
dard {or vexillutn ) is upright, blunt , and reflexed on the 
fldes •, the wings are oblong , and floor ter than the flandard 
the keel is the fame length with the wings , and bordered. 
It hath ten ftamina, nine of which are joined , and one 
ftands fingly thefe are crowned by roundiflo fummits '. At 
the bottom of the flower is fituated a taper germen , fup- 
porting an awl-jhaped fiyle , crowned by a blunt ftigma. 
Id he germen afl terward becomes a pod having two cells , 
each having a row of kidney-Jhaped feeds. 
This' genus of plants is ranged in the third lection of 
Linnaeus’s feventeenth clafs of plants, entitled Dia- 
delphia Deoandria, from the flower having ten fta- 
mina joined in two bodies. 
The Species are, 
1. Astragalus {Glycyphyllos) caulefcens proftratus lego- 
minibus fubtriquetis arcuatis foliis ovalibus pedim- 
culo longioribus. Lin. Sp. Plant. 758. Stalky pr oft rate 
Milk Vetch , with crooked pods almoft triangular , and oval 
leaves longer than the foot-ftalk. Aftragalus luteus pe- 
rennis procumbens vulgaris fylveftris. Mor. Hi it, 2. 
107. fometimes called Wild Liquorice. 
2. Astragalus ( Hamojis ) caulefcens procumbeps, le- 
guminibus fubulatis recurvatis glabris. Hort. Upfal. 
226. , Stalky trailing Milk Vetch , with fmoath awl-jhaped 
pods bending inward. Aftragalus luteus annus Mon- 
ipeliacus procumbens. Mor. Hift. 2, 108. 
D d 2- Astra- 
