BEL 
'This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fedtion 
of Linnaeus’s nineteenth ciafs, intitled Syngenefia* 
Polygamia fuperflua, the flowers being compofed of 
female and hermaphrodite florets, included in a com- 
mon ernpalement. 
The Species are, 
1. Bellis ( Perennis ) fcapo nudo umfloro. Hort. Clift. 
418. Unify with a naked fialk , having one flower. Bellis 
fylveftris minor. C. B. P. 267. Smaller wild Daify. 
2. Bellis {Annua) caule fubfoiiofo. Lin. Sp. Plant. 
887. Daijy with leaves on the lower part of the ftalk. 
Bellis minor pratenfls caule fohofo. Bocc. Muf. 2. 
p. 96. 
3. Bellis ( Hortenfis ) hortenfis fiore pleno majore. C. B. 
P. 261. Garden Daijy with a larger double flower. 
The firft fort is the common Daily, which grows 
naturally in pafture land in molt parts of Europe, and 
is often a troublefome weed in the grafs of gardens, 
fo is never cultivated. 
The fecond fort is a low annual plant, which grows 
naturally on the Alps, and the hilly parts of Italy. 
This feidom rifes more than three inches high, with 
an upright ftalk, which is garnifhed with leaves on 
the lower part ^ but the upper part is naked, flip- 
porting a Angle flower like that of the common Daily, 
1 but fmalier. This is preferved in fome botanic gar- 
dens for the fake of variety it was lent me from Ve- 
rona, near which place it grows wild. 
The Garden Daily is generally fuppofed to be only a 
variety of the wild fort, which was firft obtained by 
culture. This may probably be true, but there has 
not been any inftance of late years of the wild fort 
having been altered by culture •, for I have kept the 
wild fort in the garden upward of forty years, and 
have conftantly parted the roots, and raifed many 
plants from feeds, but they have conftantly remained 
the fame ; nor have I ever obferved the Garden Daify 
to degenerate to the v/ild fort, where they have been 
fome years negledted, tho’ they have altered greatly 
with regard to the fize and beauty of their flowers. 
I have alfo obferved the feveral varieties of the Gar- 
den Daify vary from one to the other, therefore I 
lliall not conftder them as diftinct lpecies, but fhall 
only mention the varieties, which are cultivated in the 
gardens.^ 
1. The red and white Garden Daify, with double 
flowers. 
-2. The double variegated Garden Daify. 
3. The Childing, or Hen and Chicken Daify. 
4. The Cockfcomb Daify with red and white flowers. 
The Garden Daifies flower in April and May, when 
they make a pretty variety, being intermixed with 
plants of the fame growth •, they lhould be planted 
in a fhady border, and a loamy foil without dung, 
in which they may be preferved without varying, 
provided the roots are tranfplanted and parted every 
autumn •, which is all the culture they require, except 
the keeping them clear from weeds. 
Thefe were formerly planted for edgings to borders, 
but they are very unfit for this purpofe •, becaul'e where 
they are fully expofed to the fun, they frequently die 
in large patches, whereby the edgings become bald 
in many places. 
BELLIS MAJOR. See Chrysanthemum. 
BELLONI A. 
This plant was fo named by Father Plumier, in ho- 
nour of the famous Petrus Bellonius, who has left 
many valuable tracts on natural hiftory, &c. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a -permanent ernpalement which is of one leaf cut 
into five parts at the top-, the flower is wheel-fhaped , of 
one leaf, with a fhort tube , but fpread open above , and 
cut into five obtufe fegments. It hath five awl-fhaped fta- 
mina , which are fhort, and (gowned by fhort eredl fum- 
mits , which elefe together. The germen is fituated under 
the receptacle of the flower, fupporting an awlfhaped fltyle, 
which is longer than the fiamina , and crowned by an acute 
fligma. The germen afterward becomes an oval turbinated 
feed-veffel, ending in a point, having one cell filled with 
fra all round feeds. 
B E R ' 
This gefius of plants is ranged in the firft fedtion of 
Linnaeus’s fifth ciafs, intitled Pentandria Monogynia, 
the flower having ftye ftamina and one ftyle. 
We have but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Bellonia. Lin. Sp. Plant. 172.- Bellonia frutefeens, fo- 
lio meliflse afpero. Plum. Nov. Gen. 19. 
This plant is very common in feveral of the warm 
iflands in America, from whence I have received the . 
feeds. 
It hath a ligneous ftalk, which rifes ten or twelve 
feet high, fending out many lateral branches, gar- 
nifhed with oval rough leaves placed oppolite ; the 
flowers come out from the wings of the leaves, in 
loofe panicles, which are of the wheel ftiape, of one 
leaf, divided into five parts ; thefe are fucceeded by 
oval capfules, ending in a point, which are full of 
fmall round feeds. 
It is propagated by feeds, which fhould be fown early 
in the fpring, in a pot filled with light frefli earth, 
and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners barks, ob- 
ferving to water it frequently, as the earth appears 
dry ; but you mull be careful not to wain the feeds 
out of the ground. When the plants are come up 
half an inch high, they fhould be carefully tranf- 
planted into pots filled with light frefli earth, and 
plunged into the hot-bed again, obferving to water 
and lhade them until they have taken root ; after 
which time they fhould have air admitted to them every 
day, when the weather is warm ; they muft alfb be 
frequently watered. When the plants have filled 
thefe pots with their roots, they fhould be carefully 
fhaken out of them, and their roots trimmed, and 
put into larger pots filled with light frefh earth, and 
plunged into the hot-bed again. In warm weather 
they fhould have free air admitted to them every 
day but in autumn they muft be plunged into the 
bark-ftove, and treated in the fame manner as other 
tender exotic plants. The fecond year thefe plants 
will fometimes flower, but they rarely produce good 
feeds in this climate ; however, they may be propa- 
gated by cuttings in the fummer months, provided 
they are planted in light earth on a moderate hot-bed, 
and carefully watered and fhaded until they have 
taken root. Thefe plants muft be conftantly kept in 
the ftove, and lhould have a large lhare of free air in 
warm weather ; but if they are ftt abroad, they will 
not thrive in this climate. 
BELVEDERE. See Chsnopqdium. 
BEN Z O I N, the Benjamin-tree. See Laurus. 
BERBERIS, the Barberry, or Pipperidge-bulh. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a coloured ernpalement, which fpreads open, com- 
pofed of fix concave leaves , three of which are alternately 
larger than the other the flower is of fix leaves, which 
are roundifh , concave , and little larger than the empale- 
ment there are two coloured netiarii, faflened to the bafe 
of each petal, and fix obtufe, compreffed , erect ftamina , with 
two fummits faflened on each fide their apex. The germen 
is cylindrical, the length of the ftamina, having no 
ftyle, but crowned by an orbicular fligma broader than the 
g ermen, having a fharp border : the germen afterward 
becomes an obtufe , cylindrical , umbilicated berry , having a 
pundlure, and one cell inclcflng two cylindrical J'eeds. 
This genus is ranged in Linn^us’s firft fedtion of his 
fixth ciafs, intitled Hexandria Monogynia, the flower 
having fix ftamina and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Berberis ( Vulgaris ) pedunculis racemofis. Mat. Med. 
290. Barberry with branching Jcot-ftalks. Berberis du~ 
metorum. C. B. P. 454. The common Barberry. 
2. Berberis {Canadenfis) foliis obverse-ovatis. Barberry 
with oval cbverfe leaves. Berberis latiftimo folio Ca- 
nadenfis. H. R. Par. 
3. Berberis ( Cretica ) pedunculis unifloris. Lin. Sp. 
Plant. 331. Barberry with a Jingle flower on each foot - 
ftalk. Berberis Cretica buxi folio. Tourn. Cor. 42. 
The firft fort grows naturally in the hedges in many 
parts of England, but is alfo cultivated in gardens 
for its fruit, which is pickled, and ufed for garnifh- 
ing difties. This fhrub rifes with many ftalks from 
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