A T R 
It is propagated by feeds, which mult be obtained 
from the countries where it grows naturally ; thefe 
■ fhould be fown upon a border of light earth, in a 
warm fituation, early in April, and when the plants 
come up, and are fit to tranfplant, they fhould be 
thinned, and thole which are drawn out may be trans- 
planted, leaving the other two feet afunder ; after 
which the only culture they require is, to keep them 
clean from weeds in fummer, and in winter to cover 
the roots with fome old tanners bark, to prevent the 
froft from penetrating the ground. 
The fourth fort grows naturally at the Cape of Good 
Hope ; this riles with a fhrubby (talk near three feet 
high, garnifhed with oblong leaves, indented on their 
ed ges, which have weak ipines at each indenture ; 
there are feveral weak branches fent out on the fides, 
each of which are terminated by a fingle head of 
flowers, inclofed in a common empalement, which 
fpreads open, and are of a golden colour, but are 
never fucCeeded by feeds in England. This is pro- 
pagated by flips, taken from the flower-ftalks in June, 
and planted in pots filled with light earth, and 
plunged into an old bed of tanners bark, where the 
heat is gone, and fhaded with mats in the heat of the 
day, until they have taken root ; after which time 
they may be expofed in the open air till Offober, 
when they muft be removed into fhelter, and, during 
the winter, fhould have little water, and in fummer 
expofed with other hardy exotic plants in a flieltered 
fituation. 
ATRAPHAXIS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 405. We have 
no Englifh name for this. 
The Characters are, 
The flower hath a permanent empalement , eompofled of two 
flmall coloured leaves placed oppojite. 'The flower hath two 
roundifh finuated petals larger than the empalement , %vhich 
are permanent ; it hath fix capillary ftamina , which are 
the length ofl the empalement , crowned with roundifh fum- 
niits ; in the center is fituated a compreffled germen , having 
no ftyle , hut crowned by two ftigma ; the germen afterward 
becomes a roundifh compreffled feed, flout up in the em- 
palement. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond febtion 
of Linnaeus’s fixth clafs, entitled Hexandria Digynia, 
the flower having fix ftamina and two ftigma. 
The Species are, 
1. Atraphaxis ramis fpinofis. Horfi. Cliff. 138. Atra- 
phaxis with prickly branches. Atriplex orientalis frutex 
aculeatus fiore pulchro. Tourn. Cor. 38. 
2. Atraphaxis inermis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 333. Atra- 
phaxis without Jpines. Arbufcula Africana repens folio 
ad lateras crilpo, ad Polygona relata. Hort. Elth. 
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The firft fort grows naturally in Media, from whence 
Dr. Tournefort fent the feeds to the royal garden at 
Paris. 
This is a fhrub which rifes four or five feet high, 
fending out many weak lateral branches, which are 
armed with fpines, and garnifhed with fmall, fpear- 
fhaped, ftpooth leaves, -of an Afh-colour. The flowers 
come out at the ends of the fhoots in clufters, each 
confifting of two white leaves tinged with purple ; 
and are Excluded in a two leaved empalement, of a 
white herbaceous colour-, thefe appear in Auguft, 
but the feeds never ripen here, fo the plant is propa- 
gated by cuttings, and muft be fcreened from hard 
froft, which commonly def iroys thofe which are 
planted in the open air. 
The fecond fort fends out many (lender branches, 
which trail on the ground when they are not fup- 
- ' ported, garnifhed with fmall oval leaves, about the 
fize of thofe of the Knot Grafs, waved and curled on 
their edges, embracing the ftalk half round at their 
bafe, and are placed alternate. The flowers come 
out thorn the wings of the leaves, and have much 
the appearance of an apetaious flower, being com- 
peted of four herbaceous leaves, two of winch are 
the empalement, the other two the petals; in the 
center is fituated the compreffed germen, attended 
by fix ftamina, but' the feeds are never produced in 
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this country. It flowers in June and July. This is 
a native of the country about the Cape of Good Hope, 
from whence it was brought into the gardens in Hol- 
land, and has been feveral years in the Englifh gar- 
dens, where it is allowed a place more for the fake 
of variety, than Its beauty. It may be eafiiy pro- 
pagated by cuttings any time in the fummer, and in 
winter the plants muft be fcreened from froft. 
A TRIPLE X, Orach, or Arach. 
The Characters are. 
It hath female and hermaphrodite flowers on the flame 
plant. The hermaphrodite flowers have a permanent em- 
palement of five oval concave leaves, with membranaceous 
borders ; they have no petals , but five awl-floaped ftamina , 
placed oppoflite to the leaves of the empalement , fupporting 
double fummits. In the center is placed the orbicular ger- 
men, wi}h a floort bipartite ftyle, crowned with a reflexed 
ftigma. The germen afterward becomes an orbicular com- 
preffed feed, fhut up in the five-cornered empalement. The 
female flowers have a two-leaved empalement, which are 
large , plain , eretf, and pointed. They have no petals nor 
ftamina , but in the center a compreffed germen, fupporting 
a bipartite ftyle, crowned by a reflexed ftigma. The ger- 
men afterward becomes an orbicular compreffled fleed, in- 
clofed in the heart-Jhaped valves ofl the empalement. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft febtion of 
Linnaeus’s twenty-third clafs, entitled Polygamia Mo- 
ncecia, the lame plants having female and herma- 
phrodite flowers. 
The Species are, 
1. Atriplex caule erebto herbaceo foliis triangulari- 
bus. Hort. Cliff. 469. Orach with an upright herba- 
ceous ftalk, and triangular leaves. Atriplex hortenfis 
alba five pallide virens. C. B. P. 119. 
2. Atriplex caule fruticofo foliis deltoidibus integris. 
Hort. Cliff. 469. Orach with a fhrubby ftalk and en- 
tire leaves , fhaped like the Greek delta. Atriplex lati- 
folia five Halimus fruticofus. Mor. Hift. p. 2. 207. 
commonly called Sea Purflane-tree. 
3. Atriplex caule fruticofo foliis obovatis. Flor. 
Suec. 829. Orach with a fhrubby ftalk and oval leaves. 
Atriplex maritima fruticofa, Halimus & Portulaca 
manna dibta anguftifolia. Raii Syn. 
There are feveral other fpecies of this genus, fome of 
which grow naturally in England, but as they are 
plants of no beauty, they are rarely admitted into 
gardens, for which reafon I fhall not enumerate them 
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here. 
The firft of thefe plants was formerly cultivated in 
the kitchen-gardens as a culinary herb, being ufed 
as Spinage, and is now, by fome perfons, preferred 
to it ; though, in general, it is not efteemed amongft 
the Englifh'; but the French, at prefent, cultivate 
this plant for ufe. 
There are three or four different forts of this, whofe 
difference is only in the colour of the plants ; one of 
which is of a deep green, another of a dark purple, 
and a third with green leaves and purple borders. 
Thefe are fuppofed to be only accidental varieties 
which have come from the fame feeds, but in forty, 
years which I have cultivated thefe forts, I have never 
yet obferved them to vary. But as there is no other 
effential difference, I have not enumerated them 
here. 
Thefe plants are annual, fo muft be fown for ufe 
early in the fpring, or at Michaelmas, foon after the 
feeds are ripe ; at which time it generally fucceeds 
better than when it is lbwn in the fpring, and will 
be fit for ufe at leaft a month earlier. Thefe plants 
require no other culture, but to hoe them when they 
are about an inch high ; to cut them down where ' 
they are too thick, leaving them about four inches 
afunder, and to cut down all the weeds. This muft 
be done in dry weather, otherwife the weeds will take 
root again, and render the work of little or no ufe. 
When the plants are grown about four inches high, 
it will be proper to hoe them a fecond time, in order 
to clear them from weeds ; and, if you obferve the 
plants are left too clofe in any part, they fhould then 
be cut out. If this be well performed, and in dry 
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