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The fecond fort has alfo been fome years in the Eng- 
iifh gardens, where we had not that fort with male 
flowers till lately, when I was favoured with one 
by my learned friend Dr. job Bafter, of Zirkzee in 
■Holland. 
The- firft fort rifes with a fhrubby ftalk to the height 
of fix or eight feet, putting out many fide branches 
which grow ereft •, thefe are garnilhed with fmall, 
linear,' fpear-fhaped leaves, placed alternate, fitting 
clofe to the branches : they are of a grayifn colour 
and entire. The flowers come out from the joints, 
at the fetting on of the leaves : toward the upper 
part of the branches thefe are fmall and of a greenilh 
white j they appear in June, July, and Auguft, but 
being fmall make no great appearance. 
The fecond fort riles about the fame height with the 
firft, but hath a ftronger ftem ; the branches are gar- 
nilhed with oval leaves, which are much larger than 
thofe of the firft fort, Handing upon foot-ftalks which 
are an inch long •, they are of a fea green, and entire •, 
the flowers are like thofe of the firft fort in fliape and 
colour, but thofe on the male plants are fmaller, and 
grow clofer together than thofe of the female, but both 
are fuftained 'upon fliort foot-ftalks. Thefe flowers 
appear at the fame time as thofe of the firft fort, and 
the feeds ripen in autumn. I have raifed feveral of 
thefe plants from feeds, which have all proved fe- 
male, the fame as the parent plant. 
Thefe plants are eafily propagated by cuttings during 
any of the fummer months : if the cuttings are plant- 
ed in fmall pots, and plunged into a very moderate 
hot-bed, and fhaded from the heat of the fun in the 
middle .of the day, they will foon take root, and 
fhould then be inured to the open air, otherwife they 
will draw up very weak : afterward thefe plants may 
be each put into a feparate fmall pot, and placed in 
a fheltered fituation, where they may remain until the 
middle of Odtober, or later, if the weather continues 
mild, when they fhould be removed into the green- 
houfe, and placed where they may have the free air 
in mild weather, for they only require to be protected 
from froft, therefore require no warmth in winter ; 
but if the green-houfe is fhut up too clofe, or the 
plants are much fhaded by others, the tender fhoots 
are fubjedt to grow mouldy, which deftroys more of 
thefe plants than the cold. In fummer 'they muft be 
placed abroad in a fheltered fituation, with other 
hardy exotic plants. 
As thefe plants are always green, they look well in 
the green-houfe during the v/inter feafon ; and in fum- 
mer, when they are placed in the open air with other 
exotic plants, they make a pretty variety. 
The third fort grows naturally in India, from whence 
the feeds were brought. This rifes with an upright 
fhrubby ftalk, not more than three or four feet high 
in England ; but in the places where it grows natu- 
rally, it rifes upward of twenty feet high, and fends 
out many branches at the top, fo as to form a large 
fpreading head : the branches are garnifhed with 
leaves, fhaped like thofe of the black Poplar, which 
are of a lucid green, and are placed alternate Handing 
upon flender foot-ftalks. As thefe plants have not 
yet flowered in England, I can give no account of 
them, but the feed-veflels are very like thofe of tire 
fecond fort. 
This plant will live through the winter in m airy 
glafs-cafe, without artificial heat ; but in that fitua- 
tion they fhould have very little water, for the plants 
abound with a milky juice like the Euphorbia, fo 
muft at no feafon of the year have too much wet. 
If thefe plants, when young, are placed in a very 
moderate warmth in winter, it will greatly forward 
their growth, but they muft not have too much heat, 
for that will force them too much ; and when the 
plants have obtained ftrength, they may be treated 
more hardily. This fort may be propagated by cut- 
tings during the fummer feafon ^ but the cuttings 
fhould be laid in a dry place for a few days, when 
they are taken from the old plants, that their wounded 
parts may dry and be healed over before they are 
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planted. Thefe muft be planted in fmall pots filled 
with light fanciy earth, and plunged into a moderate 
hot-bed of tanners bark ; and if the feafon is very 
warm, the glaftes fhould be fhaded in the heat of the 
day, and raifed up to admit frelh air to the cuttings 
every day •, thefe muft be fparingly watered. When 
they have taken root, and begin to fhoot, they muft 
have a greater fhare of air, and by degrees be inured 
to the open air •, and when their roots have filled the 
pots, they fhould be carefully parted, and each 
planted in a feparate pot of the fame light fandy 
earth •, then they Ihould be placed on the back part 
of the ftove, behind the other plants, where they 
may be fcreened from the fun till they have taken 
frefli root, after which they may be brought forward, 
and expofed gradually to the open air. In the fum- 
mer they Ihould have free air conftantly in warm 
weather, but they muft be fcreened from heavy rain ; 
and in winter placed in an airy glafs-cafe, where they 
may enjoy the fun, and during that feafon have very 
little wet. 
CLYPEOLA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 72 3. Jonthlafpi.' 
Tourn. Inft. R. H. tab. 99. Treacle Milliard. 
The Characters are, 
The flower hath a ■permanent empalement , compofed of 
four oblong oval leaves. It hath four oblong entire pe- 
tals, placed in form of a crofs, and fix ftamina which are 
Jhorter than the petals , two of which fianding oppofite 
are floor ter than the other , terminated by fingle fummits. 
In the center is ftuated a roundijh comprejfed germen, flap- 
porting a fingle ftyle, crowned by an obtufe fiigma . The 
germen afterward becomes an orbicular pod , which is 
comprejfed, eredt , and indented at the top , with a longi- 
tudinal fijfure, opening in two cells , containing round com- 
prejfed feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fe&ion of 
Linnaeus’s fifteenth clafs, intitled Tetradynamia fili- 
culofa, the flower having four long and two fhorter 
ftamina, and the feeds growing in Ihortpods. 
The Species are, 
1. Clypeola ( Jonthlafpi ) flliculis unilocularibus mo- 
nofpermis. Hort. Cliff. 329. Clypeola with pods, hav- 
ing but one cell and a fingle feed. Jonthlafpi minimum 
lpicatum lunatum. Col. Ecp. 1. Leaf Buckler Muf- 
tard with fpiked flowers. 
2. Clypeola (. Maritima ) flliculis bilocularibus ovatis 
difpermis. Sauv. Monfp. 71. Clypeola with oval pods 
having two cells and two feeds. Thlalpi Alyffon dic- 
tum maritimum. C. B. P. 107. 
This genus of plants was named Jonthlafpi by Ea- 
bius Columna, and the fame title was continued by 
Dr. Tournefort, and other late writers on botany be- 
fore Dr. Linnaeus, who has altered the name to this 
of Clypeola. 
The firft fort is a low annual plant, which feldom 
rifes more than four inches high ; the flender branches 
commonly lie proftrate on the ground ; thefe are gar- 
nifhed with fmall leaves, narrow at their bafe, but 
are broader at their ends, where they are obtufe. 
The flowers are produced in fhort clofe fpikes at the 
extremity of the branches, which are fmall, yellow, 
and compofed of four petals, placed in form of a 
crofs ; thefe are fucceeded by orbicular comprefled 
feed-veffels, each having one cell, containing a fingle 
feed. It flowers in June and July, and the feeds 
ripen in autumn. 
The fecond fort is perennial. This fends out 
from the root feveral flender branches, which di- 
vide again into many fmaller, that lie proftrate, 
garnifhed with very narrow hoary leaves, fitting clofe 
to the branches. The flowers are produced in fpikes 
at the end of the branches ; thefe are fmall, yellow, 
and fhaped like thofe of the other fort, but the fpikes 
terminate in a roundifn bunch. It flowers in June, 
and the feeds ripen in autumn. 
Thefe two forts are low plants, which grow naturally 
in the fouth of France, Spain, and Italy, and are 
preferved in botanic gardens for the fake of variety, 
but 3 iave little beauty ; their leaves and italics are 
of a hoary white, which is much lighter in the warm 
countries 
