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beauty is in April and May, when they have the 
greateft number of flowers upon them ; but there is 
commonly a fucceflion of flowers late in the autumn, 
though not in fo great plenty. This fort doth not 
often produce good feeds in Europe, but it is eafily 
propagated by flips taken off from the heads, in the 
fame manner as is practifed for Thrift. They may be 
planted any time in fummer, in pots filled with light 
frefh earth, which may be plunged into a very mo- 
derate hot-bed, to forward their putting out roots •, 
or otherwife the pots may be funk in the ground up 
to their rims, and covered with a Melon-glafs, which, 
in the middle of fummer, will anfwer full as well, 
but in the fpring or autumn, the former method is 
to be preferred : when thefe are planted, the gkfies 
muft be ihaded in the heat of the day, and the flips 
mult be frequently refrefhed with water, but it muft 
not be given them too liberally, for much wet will 
rot them : after they have got ftrong roots, they fliould 
be each planted into feparate fmall pots, filled with 
frefh light earth, and placed in a fliady fituation, till 
they have taken frefh root, when they may be placed 
in the open air, in a fheltered fituation, where they 
may remain till autumn, and then fliould be placed 
in a dry, airy, glafs-cafe, for the winter feafon, or 
under a common hot-bed frame; for thefe plants do 
not thrive in artificial heat, they only require pro- 
tection from froft and wet, and fliould enjoy the air 
at all times when the weather is mild. The feeds of 
this fort are heart-fhaped, like thofe of the fifth. I 
have fometimes had one or two heads of them ripen 
in a feafon, but this is very rare ; and if the feeds are 
not fown in autumn, they feldom grow. 
The eighth fort has been of late vears introduced into 
the Dutch gardens from the Cape of Good Hope. 
This was fent me by Dr. Van Royen, profefior of 
botany at Leyden, fome years paft. It hath a flender, 
fhrubby, perennial ftalk, which rifes to the height 
of feven or eight feet, but requires fupport ; this 
fends out a great number of weak branches, from 
the bottom to the top, which hang downward, unlefs 
they are fupported; they are garniihed with oval 
leaves, having fhort flat foot-ftalks; moft of thefe 
are flightly indented toward the top, and many of 
them are entire ; they are of a fhining green colour 
on their upper fide, but paler underneath ; the flo.w- 
ers come out at the end of the branches, on fhort 
naked foot-ftalks, and are in lize and colour like thofe 
of the fixth fort; thefe are fometimes fucceeded by 
flat heart fliaped feeds. The flowers appear during 
the fummer months. 
This is eafily propagated by cuttings, which may be 
planted any time in fummer in a fliady border, or 
otherwife fhaded with mats in the heat of the day : 
in five or fix weeks, thefe will have taken root, when 
they fhould be carefully taken up, and each put into 
a feparate pot, filled with light fandy earth, but not 
dunged, and placed in the fhade till they have taken 
frefh root ; then they may be placed with other hardy 
exotic plants in a flickered fituation where they may 
remain till the froft begins, when they muft be re- 
moved into the green-houfe, placing them near the 
windows that, they may enjoy the free air, for this 
plant only requires protection from froft. The earth 
in which thefe are planted, fhould be light, but very 
poor, for in rich earth they grow too luxuriant, and 
feldom flower. 
The ninth fort was fent me from La Vera. Cruz, in 
New Spain, by the late Dr. Houftoun, where he 
found it growing naturally in great plenty. This 
fends out many herbaceous ftalks from the root, which 
are hairy, and trail upon the ground. The, leaves 
are placed by pairs oppofite ; thefe are long, narrow, 
and indented on their edges in two or three places 
oppofite to each other, fo as to appear like three, 
five, or feven lobes : they are rough, and of a deep 
green on their upper fide, but hoary on their under, 
covered with flender hairs. From the divifions of 
the branches and the wings of the leaves, come out 
long naked foot-ftalks,- terminated by Angle yellow 
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flowers, about the fize of thofe of the Field Daify ; 
which are fucceeded by long, fiat, rough feeds. It 
grows naturally in poor fandy ground, and flowers in 
the fpring. This plant is annual; the feeds muft 
be fown in the fpring upon a hot-bed, and when the 
plants are fit to remove, they fhould be planted in 
pots filled with light fandy earth, and plunged into 
a hot-bed of tanners bark, -obferving to fhade them 
until they have taken new root; then they muft have 
air admitted to- them every day, in proportion to the 
warmth of the feafon, and treated in the fame manner 
as other tender-plants from the fame countries. With 
this management, the plants will flower in Auguft, 
and the feeds ripen inOdfober. 
The tenth fort rifes with an upright ftalk about , eight 
inches high, fending out flender ftiff branches on 
every fide, thofe near the ground being much longer 
than the upper; thefe are garnifhed with oblong 
hairy leaves without foot-ftalks, placed oppofite. 
From the wings of date ftalk, arifes the foot-ftalk .-of 
the flower, having two fmall leaves placed oppofite, 
juft below the flower, which hath a Angle empale- 
ment, like the other fpeeies. The flowers are of a 
yeflowifti white colour. This fort was fent me with 
the former from La Vera Cruz, by the fame gentle- 
man. It is an annual plant, and requires the fame 
treatment as the former fort. 
CAL F’s SNOUT. See Antirrhinum. 
CALL A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 917. Wake Robin, or 
Ethiopian Arum, 
The Char-acters are. 
It hath a large open [pat ha of one leaf which is oval 
and heart-floaped., ending in a point , it is coloured and 
permanent , and a fingk upright fpadix, to which _ the 
flowers and fruit adhere. This hath male and female 
flowers , intermixed toward the upper part of the club ( or 
fpadix.) The male flowers conjifl of ninny very floor i fta- 
mina , terminated by fmall yellowijh flummts \ the female 
flowers have a comprejfled ftyle , refling upon an obtufle 
germen , crowned by a ppinted fligma. Thefe flowers, at 
their firfi appearance, have a fhort green empalement 
which floon falls off, leaving the ftyle naked. The germen 
afterward becomes a globular pulpy fruit, cornpreffed on 
two files, inclofirig two or three obtufle feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the feventh feCtion 
' of Linnaeus’s twentieth clafs, intitled Gynandria Po- 
lyandria. This clafs includes thofe plants whofe male 
and female flowers are intermixed ; and this feftion, 
thofe whofe male parts have many ftamina, 
The Species are, 
1. Call a (. Mfmopica ) foliis fagitato-cordatis, fpatha ^ 
cucullata, fpadice fuperne mafculo. Hort. Cliff. 436. 
Calla with arrow-headed heart-fhaped leaves, a hooded 
fpatha or [heath, and male flowers fituated on the upper 
part of the fpadix. Arum Africanuni flore albo odo- 
rato. Par. Bat. Prod. 
2. Calla (. Paluflris ) foliis cordatis, fpatha- plana, Ipa- 
dice undique hermaphrodite. Hort. Cliff 436. Calla 
with heart-fhaped leaves, a plain fheath, and every part 
of the foot-ftalk hath hermaphrodite flowers. Dracunculus 
aquatilis. Dod. Pempt. 330. 
3. Calla ( Orientals ) foliis ovatis. Gron. Orient. 282, 
Calla with oval leaves. Arum minus Orientale, ro- 
tundioribus foliis. Mor. Hi ft. 3, p. 544, 
This plant hath thick, fleftiy, tuberous roots, which 
are, covered with a thin brown fidn, and ftrike down 
many ftrong fleftiy fibres into the ground. The leaves 
arife in chillers, having foot-ftalks more than a foot 
long, which are green and fucculent, The leaves are 
fhaped like the point of an arrow, they are eight or 
nine, inches in length, and of a filming green, ending 
in a fharp point, which turns backward ; between 
the leaves arife the foot-ftalk of the flower, which is 
thick, frnooth, of the fame colour as the leaves, and 
rifes above them, and is terminated by a Angle flower, 
fliaped like thofe of the Arum; the hood or fpatha 
being twilled at the bottom, fpreads open at the 
top, and is of a pure white colour. In the center of 
this is fituated the fpadix or club, which is of an 
herbaceous yellow colour ? upon which the fmall her- 
baceous 
