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Gardener. 
This Flower, ye skilful Florifts, often Plant, 
Let not our Nation this fair Beauty want j 
And tho’ fhe anfwers not your common Care, 
No coft or labour on her Drefling fpare j 
For fhould fhe but her conquering Charms dilplay. 
From every Fair fhe bears the Prize away. 
E P I L O G U S. 
I cannot conclude this Defeription better than by a Ihort recapitu- 
lation of it in Latin^ which I have drawn up, more BoerhaavianOt 
that is, in the Stile and Manner ufed by the learned ProfelTor Boer- 
haavey in his Index Blantanm, dec. njiz. 
RADIX 
Bulbofa, t unicat dy feu ex multis candidis conflata pellkuUsy Jibimu- 
tuo incumbent ibu s j flamentorum tranfverfalium internjentu con-^ 
nexis. 
Ventre rotundiore in Collum longiufculum attenuato. ’ 
Numrojis albifque fibris comat a^ a bafi oriundis, & in fibrillas tenui- 
ores laxatis. 
Membranaceo involucro ohduHa & infufeata. 
Terennis 6" •vivaxj fingtdis Annis Novas foboles emittens. 
CAULIS FLORIGER 
NuduSy enodis ac l£visy 
Ex rotunda prejfiory 
E)uos circiter palmos altus. 
Bartim propriisy partim fibi cum foliis communibus tunicis mvolutus, 
relius ajfnrgity pofiea verOy fuperbo forum ponder i cedere coaliuSy 
paulatim incurvatur. 
Colore viridi nitenSy inferiore autem fede ex viridi rubefeens. 
Fungofa fubfiantia quafi medulldy oppletuSy 
Et Cortice dura ac forti munitus. 
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