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white, and have an agreeable odour, but the pod I 
have not feen. 
The plants muft be preferred in the bark-ftove, and 
treated as the fourth fort. It is propagated by feeds, 
and will alfo take root from cuttings in the hammer, 
if they are planted in pots, and plunged into a bark- 
bed. It has flowered feveral years in the Chelfea 
garden, in Auguft. 
The tenth fort was fent me from La Vera Cruz, by 
the late Dr. Houfloun ; this rifes with ligneous (talks, 
which put out tendrils at the joints, whereby they 
fallen themfelves to the neighbouring plants; the 
leaves come out on each fide the branches, upon 
pretty long foot-fcalks, two at each joint oppo- 
fite, which are heart-fhaped and entire, having a fine 
hairy down on their under fide. The flowers grow 
in loofe fpikes at the end of the branches, -which 
are tubulous, and do not fpread much at the top ; 
they are of a Violet colour, and fmell very fweet. 
Thefe in their native country are fucceeded by oval, 
hard, ligneous feed-veffels, which open in four parts, 
and are full of comprefied winged feeds. 
This fort is propagated by feeds, which mufl be fown 
on a hot-bed, and the plants muft be treated in the 
fame manner as the third fort, for they will not 
thrive in this country unlefs they are placed in the 
bark-ftove. 
The eleventh fort grows naturally in the Bahama 
Iflands, from whence Mr. Catefby fent the feeds in 
1724, and many of the plants were railed in the gar- 
dens near London. This, in the country where it 
grows naturally, rifes to the height of twenty feet, 
fending out many lateral branches, garnifhed with 
compound winged leaves, each having eleven alter- 
nate wings, with lpear-fhaped frnall lobes, which grow 
alternate, and are entire at the ends of the branches 
the flowers are produced in very loofe panicles ; the 
foot-ftalks branching into three or four, each fuftain- 
ing a fingle blue flower, with a long fwelling tube, 
cut into five unequal fegments at the top, where it 
fpreads open. The flowers are fucceeded by oval feed- 
vefiels, which open in two parts, and are filled with 
flat winged feeds* 
The twelfth fort hath a woody ftem, fending 
out many branches, which have four narrow borders 
or wings running longitudinally, fo as to refemble a 
fquare ftalk-, the leaves are produced by pairs, 
on each fide the branches ; they are heart-fnaped, 
fmooth, and have fhort foot-ftalks -, thefe have 
tendrils coming out by their foot-ftalks, which 
fallen themfelves to the plants which grow near them, 
and thereby rife to a great height. The flowers are 
produced in (mall clufters from the wings of the 
leaves, which have pretty long tubes, fpread open 
at the top, and are of a pale yellow colour -, thefe are 
fucceeded by flat pods a foot in length, which have 
two rows of flat winged feeds, joined to the inter- 
mediate partition. 
This fort was fent me from Campeachy, where it na- 
turally grows, and rifes to the tops of the tailed 
trees, to whofe branches thefe plants fallen themfelves 
by their tendrils or clafpers, and are thereby fup- 
ported. This is propagated by feeds, which muft 
be fown on a hot-bed, and the plants treated in the 
fame manner as the fourth fort for they will not 
thrive in this country, unlefs they have a warm ftove, 
where the branches will rife to the height of twenty 
feet in three years and if permitted, will fpread to 
a great diftance. It has flowered in the garden at 
Chelfea, but doth not produce pods in England. 
The thirteenth fort was fent me from Campeachy, 
by Mr. Robert Millar ; this hath woody ftalks, which 
rife to a great height, climbing on the trees which 
grow near it, faftening themfelves to their branches 
by its clafpers, and fending out many ligneous branches, 
which are garniftied with oval heart-fhaped leaves, 
by fours, two on each fide, growing oppofite at the 
joints ; thefe are covered on their under fide with a 
loft hairy down, of a yellowifh colour. The flowers 
are produced in loofe panicles at the end of the 
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branches, which are ft raped like thofe of the Fox* 
glove, and are of a pale yellow colour, and are flic- 
ceeded by flat pods a foot long, having a border on 
each fide, and contain two rows of flat winged feeds. 
This plant is tender, lb muft be conftantly kept in 
the Mrk-ftove, and treated in the fame manner as the 
fourm fort. It is propagated by feeds, which muft 
be obtained from the country where it grows naturally, 
for it doth not produce any in England. 
The fourteenth fort was fent me from La Vera Cruz 
in New Spain, by the late Dr. Houfton. This hath 
a woody ftem covered with an Afh-coloured bark, 
which rifes to the height of ten feet, fending out 
many fide branches, garnifhed with trifoliate leaves, 
placed oppofite at each joint, which are very fmooth, 
oval, and ending in points. The flowers come out 
at the extremity of the branches in loofe panicles, 
and are of a dirty white colour. Thefe are fucceeded 
by fiat narrow pods, containing two rows of flat; 
winged feeds. 
This fort is propagated by feeds, which muft be fown 
on a hot-bed, and the plants afterward treated as the 
fourth fort, and muft conftantly remain in the bark- 
ftove. 
B I H A I. See Musa. 
BINDWEED. See Convolvulus. 
BIRCH-TREE. See Betula. 
BiSCUTELLA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 7 24. Thlafpi- 
dium. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 214. tab. 101. Buckler 
Mallard, or Ballard Mithridate Milliard, 
The Characters are, 
1 The emp dement is compofed of four leaves , which are 
pointed. The flower hath four petals , placed in form of 
a crofts, which are obtufe and fpread open ; it hath fix 
ftamina , four long and two fhort , placed 'oppofite, having 
fingle fummits. In the center is fimated an orbicular com- 
prefl'ed germsn, fupporting a fingle permanent ftyle, crowned 
with an obtufe ftigma the gerrnen afterward becomes a 
plain , comprefl'ed , erebi capflule , with two convex lobes, 
having two cells , terminated by the rigid ftyle , which is 
joined to the fide of the partition , each cell containing one 
comprefl'ed feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feflion of 
Linnseus’s fifteenth clafs, intitled Tetradynamia Si' - 
culofa, the flower having four long, and two fhort 
ftamina, and are fucceeded by very fhort pods. 
The Species are, 
1. Biscutella ( Auriculata ) calycibus neflario utrinque 
gibbis, filiculis in ftyium coeuntibus. Lin. Hort. Cliff. 
329. Buckler Muflard , with the enp of the neblarium 
fwelling on each fide , and frnall pods joined to the ftyle. 
Thlafpidium hirfutum calyce Boris auricular©. Inft. 
R. H. 214. 
2. Biscutella (Didyrna) filiculis orbiculato-didymis a 
ftylo divergentibus. Hort. Cliff. 329. Buckler Muft ard, 
with a double orbicular pod diverging from the ftyle . 
Thlafpidium Monipelienfe hieracii folio hirfuto. 
Tourn. Inft. 214. 
3. Biscutella ( Apula ) hirfuta foliis oblongis dentatis 
femiamplexicaulibus fioribus fpicatis ftylo breviore. 
Hairy Buckler Muftard , with oblong indented leaves which 
half embrace the ftalk , flowers growing in fpikes , and a 
floor ter ftyle. Thlafpidium Apulum fpicatum. Tourn. 
Inft. 214. 
■ The firft fort grows naturally in the fouth of France 
and Italy, where it rifes about a foot high -, but in a 
garden generally grows near two feet high, dividing 
into feveral branches ; and at every joint there is one 
oblong entire leaf a little indented, thofe on the 
lower part of the ftalk being broader and more ob- 
tufe than thofe on the upper.. The flowers are pro- 
duced at the ends of the branches in loofe panicles, 
which are compofed of four obtufe petals of a pale 
yellow colour ; thefe are fucceeded by double, round, 
comprefied feed-veffels, fwelling in the middle, where 
is lodged a fingle, round, fiat feed, the ftyle of the 
flower (landing upright between the two (mail ve fiefs, 
joined to their borders. . 
The fecond fort grows naturally in the fouth of 
France, Italy, and Germany, from whence I received 
Mm the 
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