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Show BA BA Seen and fhap’d like a Heart ; each Floweris fucceeded by four naked Seeds. We have two Varieties of this Plant growing wild in Exgland; which are, : ! Matth. 825. Marrubrium, ni- grum, f allote. F. B. The ftinking Black Horehound. ‘ cn 2. Bariore; fore albo. Tourn. Stinking Black Horehound, with white Flowers. The firft of thefe Plants is common upon moft dry Banks near Loudon, and is feldom er’d to have a Place in Gardens; but this being a Plant fometimes ufed in Phyfick, i thought proper to mention it in this Place ; it may.be eafily propagated by either Seeds or Roots, but is very apt to increafe too faft in aGarden. This is the common Black Horehound of the Shops: The fecond Sort is a iety of the firft, whichis found fometimes with the other wild. BALSAMINA ; The Female Balfamine, or Balfam Apple. The Charafters are; It hath an anomalous Flower, which coufifts of an unequal Number of Lea having Jometimes two, three, four, fix, or more Leaves, or Spur to the Flower: Th ) i cecded by turbinated Veffels, 7 Sembling Pods, which, when vipe, upon the firft Louch burft, and caft forth feveral roundi[b Seeds. The Species are ; 1. Barsamina lutea; five, Noli me tangere, C.B. The Yellow Balfamine; or, Touch me not. 2. Barsamina fi ; fore purpureo. The Female Balfamine, with Purple F 3- Batsamina femina; fore car The white Female Balfamine. 4. Barsamina femin flore vubro, The Red Female Balfamine, H. L. 5. Barsamina femina ; flore majore candido. Tourn. The large white-flower’d Balfc 6. Batsamina femina; fore majore fj Touru. The large {pecious fower’d Female Balfamine. 7. Barsamina feemina ; flove partim candido, partim purpureo, The purple and white-ftrip’d Balfamine. INA tiffimo vaviegato. Balfamine. erfough. The other Sorts are commonly rais’d on Hot-beds in the Spring, and afterwards planted into Pots or Borders, to adorn ConrtYards and Parterres. The fecond, third; and fourth Sorts will come up in the common Ground, without anyartificial Heat, and make ftronger Plants than when rais’d in a Hot-bed, and ftand longer in Flower, but the four laft mention’d Sorts are much ten= derer, and mutt be rais’d on a Hot-bed, and’ afterward planted in Pots, and fet into afreth ina; flore majore, elegan— The large-flower'd ftrip’d of it in Soups with other Herbs; and its Ufe in Medicine is, at prefent, but{mall: However as it hath been an old Garden-Herb, 1 thought proper to mentionjt in this Place. ‘This Plant increafes very faft at the Root, and will grow in almoft any Soil or Situation, fo that whoever hath a mind to propagate it, need only plant a few Slips in the Spring or Autumn, in any common Border, and they will foon be furnifh’d with enoughofit, BAMIA MOSCHATA; vide Ketmia. Hot-bed to bring them forward (efpecially the laft Sort) which otherwife will not flower BANANA; vide Mufa. foon enough to produce BARBA CARPA; wide the Appendix. flower’d Balfamine, one is brought fron Weft-Indies, by the Name of the Co this is very apt to produce large trong but rarely begins to flower till] the End of BALM; vide Meliffa. uw if it is not rooted out, it will multiply faft Summer, and then very often hath but Quantities of Flowers, and feldom produces ripe Seeds in England, it from Fi Fle Wey Plant produces la a I double i eat Quantities, and is one of annual Piants we have, cot { time in Flower(efpecially ifthelter’d fi Violence of Wind and Rain, both o are great Enemies to this Plant); alfo ripens Seeds very well, but is generate in a few Years with us to Flowers, and plain Colours. Thefe Plants muft be taken great while young, and in the Hot-bed, par to give them as much free Air as prevent their running up too muft they have much Water, rots them at Bottom near the Surface Ground. When you put thefe Plants into Pots, ob= ferve to chufe fuch as have clear fpotted Stems, which always produce ftrip’d Flowers, and thofe with greenifh Stems white F and the red Stems red Flowers: So tl you have Plants enough, you need only take the ftrip’d ones. And in’ order to them from degenerating, you fhould Pp tal all fingle or plain-colour’d Flowers from J Plants, and not fufer them to feed, which means youwill preferve this beautifulby Plant many Years longer than you otherways could. 9. Batsamina femina; fore majore pleno, elegantiffimo variegato. The double largeBALSAMITA ; Coftus Hortorum flower’d ftrip’d Balfamine ; or, Immortal , or CoftMary. Eagle Flower. The Chara flers are; The firft of thefe Species is preferv’d in The Flo are naked, Gardens, for the Diverfion it affords when growing in bels on the Seed Veflels are ripe, by defiring igno- the Leaves are tutire rant Perfons to gather them, who , are fur~ the Edges, priz’d to find, uponthe firft Touch, that the Weha ve at prefent but one Speci Pods fly to Pieces in their Hands : es of this This Plant Plant in the E; is very hardy in refpe& to Cold; Gard ens, whic h i and altho’ Batsamrra; it is Annual, yet, if fuffer’d major. Dod. The lars to caft its Seeds, Mary ‘ . will come up every Spring without any Care; This Plant was formerlyin great it delights beft in moift fhady er Requeft Places, where, thanit is at prefent; many Peop le were fond of BARBA JOVIS; Jupiter’s Beard, or Silver Bufh. The Charalters are; It bath pennated or winged Leaves ; the Flowers are papilionaceous, andare [ucceeded by Short oval Pods, in which is, for the moft part, contained one roundifb Seed. The Species are ; I. Barna Fovis, pulchré lucens. F. B. The Silver Bufh; vulgs. 2. BarBAa Fovis, Hifpanica, incana, flore Juteo. Tourn. Spanith Jupiter’s Beard. 3. Barsa Sovis, Caroliniana, arborefcens, Pfeudoacacie foliis. Baftard Indigo Jncolis. Rand. Att. Phil. N. 404. Baftard Indigo, or Carolina Barba Jovis. ° 4. Barsa Fovis, Africana, foliis viridibus pinnatis, flore ceruleo. Boerb. Ind. 'The African Jupiter’s Beard, with deep green Leaves and blue Flowers. The firft of thefe Plants is very common in many Gardens; the fecond is, at prefent, more rare with us; the third Sort was rais’d from Seeds fent from America, by Mr. Catesby, and is by the Inhabitants made into a coarfe fort of Indigo: This growsto bea large Shrub, and will refift the Cold in the open Air very well ; it is alfo a beautiful flowering Shrub, and for Diverfity merits a Place in Quarters of curious flowering Trees, ‘This Plant will fometimes produce ripe Seeds, by which means it may be eafily propagated, and will alfo take Root bylaying down the Branches in the Spring, which bythe next Spring will be fit to tran{plant out: It delights in a {andy dry Soil, and mufthave Roomto {pread its Branches, which extenda confiderable Diftance from the Stem: This Tree is alfo fubject to fplit if expos'd to ftronz Winds, The fourth Sort may be preferv’d with firft and fecond in’a common Green-Ho the ufe : They are not very tender, but require much free Air in good Weather and frequent one very well with us, fo I would recommend the raifing them that Way, as the moft fure and expeditious. BARBAREA, or Winter-Crefs ; Appendix, BARDANA ; Burdock. BAROMETER, [of Bee a Weight or Burden, and wy a M is an Inftrument or Machine for m Weight of the Atmofphere, or Variations of the Weizht or Pref incumbent Air, in order to deter Changes of Weather, This Machine is founded on the j Experiment, fo call’d from the I: Toricellius. It confifts of a long Tube of Glafs, hermetically fealed at one End; and being fill’d with Quickfilver, is inverted fo as to have one End of it emerg’d in a Bafon of ftagnant Quickfilver, and the other hermetically feal’d, which is expos’d to the Preffure of the outward Air: Out of which open End (after fuch Immerfion) the Quickfilver in the Tube being fuffer’d to run as muchasit will into the ftagnant Quickfilver in which that Mouth or open End is immers’d; there is wont to remain a Cylinder of Quickfilver fufpended in the Tube, about twenty-eight, twenty-nine, or thirty Inches high, meafuring from the Surface of the ftagnant Quickfilver perpendicularly ; but more or lefs within fuch Limits, according as the Weight or Preffure of the Air incumbent on the external ftagnant Quickfilver expos’d toit, is ereater or Jeffer, leaving the upper Part of the Tube void, or at leaft empty of common Air, The Phenomena of the Barometer are vari~ ous; and the Caufes affien’d for them by feveral Authors as various; nor is the Ufe of it in predicting the Weather yet perfectly afcertain’d. The greateft Height the Mercury has been known to ftand at Lox jon, is thirty Inches three-Eighths, and its leaft tw enty-cight Inches: And though, as Mr Boyle obferves, the Phano mena of the Barometer are fo very precarious, that it is very difficult to form anygeneral Rules about the Rife and Fall thereof in thar which feems to hold moft univerfally, viz, That when the high Winds blow, the Mercury is the lower, fometimes fail; Yer the following Obfervations have been made byfeveral Authors, Dr. Halley obferves, that in calm Weather, when the Air is inclin’d to rain, the Mercury is continually low ; in ferene good fettled Weather, high. That on great Winds, tho’ unaccompany’d ings: They are all propagated bySeeds Water, which fhould be fown on a Hot-bed in the Spring, with Rain, the Mercury and tran{plantedinto Pots ofgood is loweft of all, with (but not ov er-dung’d) and hous’d light Earth regard to the Point of the Compafs the Wind in Winter, blows on; that, with Myrtles, €c. and have a ceteris paribus, the greateft good Ef<@ adding to the Diverfity of the Green-houf in Heights of the Mercury are on Eafterly and e: : Plants will fometimes take Root from North-eafterly Winds; ‘that after great Storms of Wind, when the Mercury has but as *tis difficult to obtain Plants been lowit rifes again veryfaft. ty, and the Seeds many times ripen That in calm frofty Weather it ftands high. yi That |
