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Show MI —— {I The third Sort hath very broad Leaves, and is greatly befet with fharp Thorns: This will rife to the Height offive orfix Feet, but has generally very flender Branches, and i tenderer than the laft-mention’d: It rarely produces Seeds in this Country, but may be preferv’d through the Winter in a very good Perfon would be induc’ d to chinkthe Y were really endow’d with the Senfe of F ecling, This feem’d fo hard to be dif a curious Malabarian PhiJofophe ry obferving the Nature ofthis Plant, upon his ran m ad Tne juft as riffotie is faid to have A felf headlong into the Sea, becau{ehe not comprehend the Ebbing and Flowing The fourth Sort has the quickeft Motion of thereof, : all the Kinds at prefent in England: Thisis TheReafon of thefe Plants thus drooping d dittiew!hat like the third in Appearance, but and reviving again fo foon, maj be accounted grows more erect, and hath fewer Spines, and for as follows: i the Flowers are “of a different Colour. The It is occafion’d by. the Stru@ure of Seeds ofthis kindare frequently brought over Mufcles or Fibres, their Nerycs, their Valves, from Barbadoes, where, bythe Plenty of Seeds and their Por Stove. brought over, it feems to be the moft common in that ae Thefifth Sort is preferv’d in Botanick Gardens for Viariety, ais a Plant of no great Curiofity: It hath fomewhat th yearance of the firft Sort, and w i Ww st to the oduce great Quantities of S z no Motion n being touch’d, han the others. Thefe oe s were moft be Annuals formerly, be of them thought to pon the firft rft, By reafon that the interior Nerves which belong to their fuperior Mufcles or Fibres of the Veaves being wider than thofe exterior which belong to the inferior; and therefore the " Favour atcending out of the Earth through the inferior Nerves, having a_large as they are pretty broad sof the F Infence on the upper ycaf, and by reafon ofthe Situation of the ife, not being able to return to Talves cro ne Earth, dilate themfélves with their Tavtnde! and abbreviate ther nee ach of cold Weather ey were de- Longitude, and fo erect the Leaves on t fince the modern Invention of which thele Fibres are inferted, to fuch a ¢ of thefe Sorts have been Height, as their Articulation or Flexibil preferv'd two or three Yeears, and do produce will permit Seecds ver well, h thefe Plants are placed Kept to Auana’s He l s 7monMeters) fhould“pe trey1ently hich muftbeplac’d in t twenty-four Hoursbefore it may have nearly an equal : the Stove ; but you mutt not givei them in large QuaiSmRIEIeS, which will tro eos, and caule them to decay: You mutt alfo obferve to Pick off all decay’d Leaves ‘which may appear at that Seafon ; if not taken off, will harbour Infeéts, at Prejudiceof the Plants, Hence it that by the Inflation of the and the Ereétion of the h which is in the inferior fo preisd or Fibres of the Lea and fo fore’d to open the Valves and Pores out of the narrower Nerves looking, into the broader or wider, and then tocrofs overwit the other Sy in the wider Nerves intothe fiperior Mok es of the Leaves, and raile them upward ee that fo much the more, by their Situation becaufe the inferior Valves, crofs-wife, hinder the Defcent of the Fumes any Perfon; butI fhall “here infert what has been advane'd on that Head, ‘The Phenomenon thereof ;is worthy Admiration, that not only in the Evening, or towards Niight, but at all Hours of the Day with theleaft Touch of a Sti > or gentle one ne with the Hand, the Leave: ft like a Tree a dying, dr oop, and complicate apes peJes with ake all the Quic knefs Senet im inable, and preutter erect and recover them {elives, refurning to their former Pofition; fo tthat a s Then, after thofe Leaves have been fo prefs'd downwards, and the Hand remov’d from the a the Exhalations out of the nto the Stalk in greater Quanhrough the inward and wider Nerves, the Valves that go crofs them exterior and narrower, and by firft fhut thofe Valves which come een the wider and inward Nerves into the or, and then pro ing forward, @. e. xhalations) crof§ over to the fupe and bythat means open the V which look from the wider and into the outward and narrower, of the Stoppagxe of the Valves ct not able to defcend, they and, by their Afcent, { ing from the n arrower INerves and fo neceflarily defcend Mufcles or Fibres of the Le ting them and abbreviatin bendthofe lowex Articulation or Fle; MOLDAVICA: [This Plant is fo call’d, of Moldavia, becaufe it was brought to us from that Country, where it grows without Culture] Turkey Balm. TheCharatters are ; It is a Plant ) a labiated Flower, confi fomewhat raife the Leaves which were sd; and by that {mall Sublatation of 7g of 6one Leaf, whofe Upper-lip is arch’d, cu prefs the Exhalations, which the into two Parts, and reflex’'d: Ihe Under-lip is inferior Mutcles of the Leaves are full of; alfo ] 7 W Parts, both i and thoft being prefs’d, they open the Valves border'd Faws : The Flower-cup is hollo narrower Nerves, out of the exterior generally cut into two unequal Lips, out Nerves into the interior, and fo crofs over to which arifes the wider and inner Embryos, Nerves ; and reafon of the Vehemency of there, by Fumes in great Quantities exhaling out of th m, and clofing f into the narrowe ¢ Earth into which go can neither aeicenc the Ea, attended with four which afterwards become fo many oblons Seeds. The Species are ; 1. Morpavica; bet Journ. Turkey Balm, and a blue Flower. Mo tpaviea; betoni Turkey Balm, with a elany, feat yut of th hrough the wider and a white Flower, Mo.pavica; betonice, folio, flore pur which Leaves, as their upper Parts fall of copious Exhalations, fo theyare puro-ceeruleo. Tourn. mr‘key a with a Betony Leaf, and a 4. Moxpavrea flore magno, violaceo, Mentha. by ns perpetuslly Journ. vita, witha Betony Leaf’ Cadaaa latte VioletMIRABILIS PERUVIANA; vide Jalapa. pe colour’d Flower. 5. Morpavica ; Orientalis, falicis folio Vifcum in the Ap- flore parvo ceruleo. T. Cor. Baftern Moldavica with a Betony Leaf, and a large whi tith Flower. calld, _of Mitella, Lat. 6. Morpavica ; Orientalis, falicis fi Mitre, becaufe the Seed-veflel of this flore parvo ceruleo. I. Cor. Eaftern Moldavi ay t refembles a Bifhop’s Mitre. Baftard witha W illow Leaf, anda {mall blue Flower. 7. Morpavica , Orientalis, falicis folio, joe parvo albo. T. Cor. Eaftern Moldavica, The Spirits then afcending out of the E more vehemently by that Touch, wards, through the interior and \ in the manner as is praétis’d for Polyanthus’s; &c. and being planted in a fhadySituation, will grow very vigoroufly ; fo that, for the Sake of Variety, a few Roots may be admitted in fhady Borders where few better Plants will thrive fufcles of the Leaves ; andbyinflating thofe, again nto the Ground. in prettylarge€ Quantities, and pretty itr But wherethere is not the Conyeniency of through theinterior and wider Nerves, do not a good Stove to preferve thefe Plants through fuffer the Valves, out of the wider Nerves, he eds may be annually proentering into the narrower, to be open’d, Plants rais’d, which may be ofthe out thefe thoug crofs to Fumes the h 1a Hot- bed under Glaffes, where they wider Nerves into the narrower. W hen there ontinue until the Cold aproaches in fore the fuperior Part of the Leaves ate Autumn, and, being a great Curiof are touch’d with the Hand, then the Spirits 19 worthy ofCarein eve y good Garden. riven thofe upper Parts of the Leavy The Phi fophical Reafon of the fudden Motion ofthis Plant, uponits being touch’d, has oe I know of, been excplain’d by MO MI with a Willow Leaf, and a {mall white Flower. 8. Morpavica; Americana, trifolia, odore Sravi. Journ. ‘Three-leav’d American Molterminates in mt ” Bifhop’s The Species are ; Mitretta ; Americana, florum petalis integris, Tourn. American Mrtella, whofe Flower-leaves are intire. Mirevta Americana, florum petalis atis. Tourn, American Mitella, d Flower Leaves. with ELLA ; Americana, flore {quallide lofo. Boer. Ind. American Mitella, th hairy Flowers, of a dirty purple Colour Thefe Plants are prefery’d in curious BoGardens for Variety ; but there being little Beauty in their Flowers, they are r Gardens for Pleafure | 1 >€eds, be done I in almoft davica, with a ftrong Scent, commonly call'd The Balm of Gilead. The feven firft Species are annual Plants, which perifh foon after they have perfected Seeds; Thefe may be propagated by fowing their Seeds in March, upon a Bed offreth light Earth, in a warm Situation ; and wher the Plants are come up about two Inches high, they fhould be tranfplanted into the Borders of the Pleafure-Garden, obferving to water ’em until they have taken Root: After w hich they will require nofarther Care but to keep them clear from Weeds; and ifthey pretty tall, to fupport them with Sticks, cg prevent their being broken by Winds In Fune and I ly they will produce Flowers ; and in duguft their Seeds perfected, when they muft be gath preferv’d dry for the fucceeding § The Seeds may alfo be { Border in Auguft, where come up foon after, and wi |