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Show ReAc in his excellent tells us, that and Dewthat falls in a Inches, and that poration ina nee that is the sorates in a Summer’s Day, from whicch g-++-t Inches is to be deducted 3.39 Inches, for circulating daily Dew ; there remains 6.2 Inc! Ss which 6.2 Inches deducted from the Quantity of Rain which falls in a Year, there remains at Jeaft 16 Inches Depth to replenifh the h for Vegetation, and to fupply Moifture xs and Rivers. Hence we poles ol a appears, it _ 3. That the conftant Order of the Colours is, that the outmoft is Red or Saffron - colour, the next is 2% » thethirdis Green, the fourth and inmott is Violet or Blues but thefe Colours are not alwaysequally bright. 4. Two R vs appear toge ther, one of which is highet and lar;ger than ihe other, and fhe ws theaforefaid Colours, but in aninverted Order. . The Rai is always exactly round, Bee does not always appear equally intire, the upper or lower Parts being very often wants Is apparent Breadth is always the fame, That thofe who ftand upon plain low Ground, never fee above half its Circle, and oftentimes not fo much. 8. ‘Lhe higher the Sun is above the Horizon, the lefs of the Circle is feen, and ifthere be that about But in the there falls from which deduct tion, there rem ! hes Dept h of Water, befides great Supplies from much more plentiful Dews thanfall in plain Countries, Which vait Stores feem fo abundantly fuflicient to wer the great Quantity of WwW ater, whichis conveyed away by Springs and Rivers from. thofe Hills, that we need not have reSuipplies to the great Abyfs, whof 2 at High Water, is furmounted fome edsof Feet by ordinary Hills, and fome thoufands of Feet by thofe vaft Hills, from whence the longeft and greateft Rivers take their Rife. no Cloud to hinder, the lower the moreof I. g. That never any Rainbow appears, when the Sun is above 41 Degrees 46 Minutes high. TeanaeRanove:: The Moon alfo fometimes exhibits the Phenomena ofan Jris p by the Refraétion of her Raysin the Diss of Rain in the Night-time. Ariftotle fays, he was the firft that ever obferv’d it; and adds, that it never happens, ie, is vifible, but at the Time ofthe Full Moon, her L ight at other times beingtoofaint to afFeet the OW, a Meteor in Form Arch or Semi-circle, ex! iina cyy oppofite to the Sun, by the tareof ne Rays in the Drops of falling 8 Sir Dfaac ut where it rains in the y be reprefente od art ificially, ¢ > fall in' Tittle Drops hich the ee aE the RANUNCULUS, [fo call’d, as fome fay, 2. That when the Rain always rains fome-where, i Rain in D Denicinis firkt in 1611: He explain’d at lar form’d by Refraction and R saa of eams in fpherical Drops of Water. a oe his EEplicarion by Ex perimene made with Glafs Globes, ul of Wa wherein he was follow’d by De5 Cartes mended and improv’d upon his Account. But as they were both in the D true O of Colours, their Explications are e, and infome Things erroneot s, which it is one ofthe Glories of the A n Docof Colours to fupply and cx srredt. Theftoll owing Properties are afcribed tot hat it never appears but in a Place opee€ to ee the Sun, efo that when we look dii rectly at it, the Sunis always behindus, Sight. and one Reflection, RA from Rana, Lat. a Frog, on account of its delighting to grow in moift Places, which Frogs frequent. ] Crowfoot. The Gharaélers are ; The Flower confifts of feveral Leaves, which are placed in a circular Order, and ey in Formof a Rofe; having, for the moft part, a many-leav'd gracent or Flower-cup; out of the Middle of the Flower rifes the Pointal, which apecware becomes a Fruit, either round, cylindrical, v fpiked; to the Axis of which, asa Pde! adhere many Seeds, for the moft part naked. The Species are 3 1. Ranuncutus; hortenjis, erettus, flore glenn. C.B.P. Common yellow Crowfoot with a double Flower. 2, RanuncuLus; repens, flore pleno, F. B. Commoncreeping Crowfoot with a double Flower. 3. Ranuncutus 3; Montanus, aconiti folio, albus, flore minore. C.B.P. Mountain Crowfoot with a white Flower. A. Ranuncutus; multiplici. C.B. P. folio aconiti, flore albo, Crowfoot with a Monk’s- hood Leaf and a double white Flower, com- monly called The Fair Maid of France. 5. RANuncuLuss; bylbofus, flore pleno. C.B.P. Common bulbous-rooted Crowfoot with a double Flower, 6. Ranuncutus; fafanguineo, pleno. Conftantinopolitanus, flore F.B. Common Ranunculus with a double bloody Flower. 7. Ranuncutus; afphodeli radice, prolifer, Aurora. 16. Ranuncu.t Afphodeli pleno, albo, parvo, rubris ftriis « dice 10. Monfp. Crowfoot with an Alphodel R and a {mall double white Flower {{trip d wi red. 17; Ranuncutus; A/pho pleno, magno, lattes, fuperius 1 5 eleganter piéto. Boerb. Ind. Crowfoot with an Afphodel Root and a large double white Flower, mark’d above with red Spots, com- monly called The Seraphick, : Thefe are moft of them old Flow which have been long cultivated in the Evglifh Gardens: The five firit- nee ’d Sorts are very hardy Plants, andwill thrive extremely well in fhady Borders; thefe require no other Culture, but to take up their Roots every other Year, when their Leaves decay, and part ” em, planting out the Off-fets in other Borde: by permitting them to growtoo large, rot each other, The creepiing Sort will re to be oftner tranfplanted, “orherwile it will fpread over every ng that grows n¢ Thefe do all produce handfome double Floy which continue long in Beauty, oe an agreeable Variety, and beingg har w orthy ofa Place in every goodiG Bed: The other Sorts were ori lly brought from Turkey, and were formerly in great Efteem ‘in Exgland, but of late Years there have been introduced manyother Sorts of a After two Refiactions miniatus. > Lunar phodel Root and Childing Carmine Flowers, differing Kind, from Perfia, amc t which are many with femi-double Flowers, ich produce Seeds, from which there are fuch commonly called Turks Turban. prodigious Varieties of new Flowers annually Iris has all the Colours of the Solar v d pleafant, only faint in Comparifon ofthe other, both from the different Intenfity of the Rays, the different Difpofition of the Medium. Marine Raine ow, is a Phenomenon fome- times obfervedin a Paveh agitated Sea, when the Wind {weeping patt of the Tops off the Waves, carries them aloft; fo that the Sun’s Rays falling upon them, are refracted, Se. as in a common Shower, ond paint the Colo rs of the Bow. F, Ba _ in the Philo/o; obferves, that the Colours of the Marine R boware lefs lively, diftin& andof lefsDu than thofe of the common Bow, that there fcarce above two Colours diftin dark Yellow onthe Side nex pale Green on the opapelite But thefe Bows excee being fometimes 20 or appear at Noon-Day, fite to thatof the comn side is turned up} neceflary it fhoulid be, from C. B. P. Ranunculus 8. Ranuncutus; grumofa with an Af- <Afiaticus polyclonos, fiv radice fecundus. F.B. Afiatick Ra- aunculus with many Heads and a grumofe Root, commonly called Sphericus. 9. Ranuncurus; Afphodeli radice, flore fanguineo maximo. H.R. Par. Afphodelrooted Ranunculus with avery large red Flower, como The Montfter. ; Afphodeli radice, flore C.B.P. Afphodel-rooted t -red Flowers commonly called Marv elia. 11, Ranuncutus 5 Af hodeli radice, luteo variegato, H. R. flore Afphodel-rooted Ranunculus with a yell riegated Flower. 12. Ranuncutus ; us, grumofa radice, flore lineis rubris (PF lute firiato. H.R. Par. Grumofe-rooted Crowfoot with a Flower ftrip’d with red and yellow Lines, commonly called Ranunculus of Alep eee > Ranuncutus5 venis rubr 15 vide Campanula efculente RAMUS, aBranch, is the Divifion of Stalk ; in Trees it is often called a Boug RAN calle.ad Bofvel. Ranuncu obtain’d, which are fo large, and of fuch Variety of beautiful Colours, as to exceedall other Flowers of that Seafon, and even vie with the moft beautiful Carnations: Thefe are, many of them, J sd, and the Roots, when ftror rally produce eight, ten, or twelve Flow upon each, which fucceeding each other, do continue in Beauty a full Month, or longer, according to the Heat of the Seafon, or the Care taken to defend them from the Injuries of the Weather; all which excellent Qualities have 1 der’d them fo valuable, that the old Sorts here-namedare almoft difregarded, except in fome old Gardens; but however, as they are ftill preeri by: fome Perfons, fo I fhall briefly fet down their Management, before I proceed to that of the new Kinds, which muft be treated in a different manner from thefe. Alt thefe very double Flowers do never produce Seeds, fo that they are only multi 4 H R. Par, Crowfoot with an Afphodel Root B and yellow Flower with red Veins, commonly RAMPIONS; Crowfoot with a double yellovv Flower curi oufly ftrip’d with red Lines, commonly caled Sy grumofa radice, cin peralae: H.R.Par. Aleppo Crowfoot with a grumofe Root and a Carmine Flower bordered with yellow. 15. Ranuncotus ; flore pleno, flavefiente, & rubris lineis elegantifime variegato, H. R. Par. plied by Off-fets from their Roots, which they gener ally produce in good Plenty, ifplz anced in a good Soil, and duly attended in // The Seafon for Planting their Roots is any time in Ofober, for if they are planted fooner, they are apt to come up inafhort Time, and growpretty rank before Winter, whereby they will be in greater Dangeroffuffering by Froft andifF they are pl anted much later, they will be 6Z in |