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are heart-fhaped, and furround the pedicle with their 
bafe. The flowers are yellow, and appear in June. 
The feeds ripen in Auguft •, which, if permitted to 
fcatter, the plants will come up, and require no other 
care but to keep them clean from weeds ; this mull 
have a fhady fltuation. • 
The thirtieth fort grows naturally at La VeraGruz, 
from whence the late Dr. Houftoun fent me the feeds; 
this is an annual plant, which riles front two to 
three feet high. The leaves of thefe are fometimes 
narrow and entire, at other times oval, and divided in 
the middle, almoft to the midrib, in fhape of a fiddle ; 
they alfo vary in their colour, fome being inclinable 
to purple, others of a light green ; they are fawed on 
their edges, and Hand upon Ihort foot-llalks. The 
flowers are produced in fmall umbels at the end of 
the branches ; they are of a greenilh white, and are 
fucceeded by fmall round capfules with three cells. 
The thirty-firft fort grows naturally in moll of the 
iflands in the Weft-Indies • this is an annual plant, 
which rifes with a branching ftalk about two feet 
high, garnifhed with oblong, oval, fmooth leaves, 
which are fawed on the edges; The flowers grow 
in fmall umbels at the foot-ftalks of the leaves, 
gathered into clofe bunches ; thefe are white, and 
are fucceeded by fmall round capfules, inclofing three 
feeds. 
The feeds of the thirty-fecond fort were fent me 
from La Vera Cruz, by the late Dr. Houftoun ; this 
is an annual plant, which rifes with an upright ftalk 
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about a foot high, dividing into a great riUrhber of 
branches, which fpread very wide on feVery fide, 
garnifhed with roundifti, heart-fhaped leaves, Which 
are entire, Handing upon pretty long foot-ftalks. The 
flowers come out fingly from the divifions of the 
ftalk ; they are fmall, and of an herbaceous colour; 
and are fucceeded by fmall round capfules, contain- 
ing three feeds; 
The laft three forts are annual ; the feeds of thefe mu ft 
be fown upon a hot-bed in the fpring, and when the 
plants are fit to remove; they ftiould be each planted 
in a fmall pot filled with light earth, arid plunged into 
the hot-bed again, and muft afterward be treated in 
the fame manner as other tender annual plants from 
warm countries. 
EUPHRASIA. Eyebright; 
This is a medicinal plant; which grows naturally iri 
the fields and commons in moft parts of England; al- 
ways among grafs, heath, furz; or fome other cover, 
and will not grow when thefe are cleared from about 
it ; nor will the feeds grow when they are fowm in a 
garden ; for which reafon I fhall not trouble the reader 
with a defcription, or any farther account of it, than 
that the herb-women fupply the markets with it in 
plenty from the fields. 
EX COR TIC AT I ON [excorticatio, Laid] a 
pulling or peeling off the outward bark of trees. 
EXOTICS [exotica, Lai,] Exotic plants are fueh 
as are natives of foreign countries. 
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FAB 
ABA. Tourn. Inft. R. H. J91. tab. 212. Vi- 
cia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 782. The Beari; in 
French, Feve. 
The Characters are, 
‘The flower hath a tubulous empalement of one leaf, 
which is cut into five fegments at the brim ; the three lower 
fegments being long , and the two upper are very floor t. The 
flower is of the butterfly kind. The ftandard is large , 
oval , and indented at the end ; the two fides turn back- 
ward, after fome time ; it hath two oblong ereft wings, 
which inclofe the keel, being much longer. The keel is 
flocrt, fwelling, and clofely covers the parts of generation ; 
thefe are joined in one column , almoft to the top where 
they are divided ; the nine ftamina are in three parts, and 
one ftands feparate ; thefe are terminated by roundifh re- 
clined fummits. At the bottom is fituated an oblong com- 
prejfed germen, fupporting a fhort angular ftyle, crowned 
by an obtufe ftigma, which is bedrded on the two fides. 
The germen afterward becomes a long, comprejfed , leathery 
pod, having one cell, filled with comprejfed kidney-Jhaped 
feeds. 
Tournefort ranges this genus of plants in the fecund 
fedion of his tenth clafs, which includes the herbs 
with a butterfly flower, whofe pointal turns to a long 
pod with one celh This is in the third fedion of 
Linnseus’s feventeenth clafs, in which he places thofe 
plants whofe flowers have ten ftamina, joined in two 
bodies ; and he joins it to his genus of Vicia, fo he 
makes only a fpecific difference between them ; but as 
the Bean hath a compreffed leathery pod and kidney- 
fhaped feeds, and the Vetch a fwelling pod with round 
feeds, they Ihould be feparated* 
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There are feveral varieties of the Garden Bean, which 
are known and diftinguiftied by the gardeners, but 
do not effentially differ from each other ; fo I fhall 
not enumerate them as diftind fpecies, nor joiii 
thefe to the Horfe Bean, as fome* have done, who have 
fuppofed them to be but one fpecies ; for, from hav- 
ing cultivated them more than forty years, without 
findingthe Garden Beari degenerateto the Horfe Beari, 
or the latter improving to the former, I Conclude 
they are diftind fpecies. 
There is a great variety of the Garden Beans, now 
cultivated iri the kitchen-gardens in England, Which 
differ in fize and ftiape ; fome of them producing their 
pods much earlier in the year than others, for which 
they are greatly efteemed by the gardeners, whofe pro- 
fit arifes from their early crops of moft efculent plants* 
therefore they are very careful to improve all thofe va- 
rieties which have a tendency to be fit for the markets 
firft; but as many forts of feeds, when cultivated long 
in the fame land, are apt to degenerate; fo new feeds 
ihould be annually procured; either from abroad, or 
fome diftant fitoation, where the foil is of a different 
nature, by which change many of the varieties may 
be continued in perfediort 
I fhall begin with the Garden Beari, Called by the 
botanifts, Faba major to diftinguifh it from the Horfe 
Bean; Which they have titled Faba minor feu Equina; 
arid I fhall only mention the riarnes of each; by which 
they are known among- the gardeners, placing them 
according to their time of ripening for the table. 
The Mazagan Bean is the firft and beft fort of early 
Beans at prefen; knowri ; thefe are brought from a fet- 
tle merit- 
