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Show oC SC may be propagated bySlips or Cuttings, as the third, and require the fame Manage- ‘ment. The twelfth Sort is preferved by fuch as are curious in collecting Varieties of Plants, but the Flowers have no Scent ; however, as it is a hardy Plant, requiring no other Culture than the common Field Sorts, fo it may be admitted, for Diverfity, into the Pleafure-Garden, becaufe it will thrive in fhady Places, where few other Plants will grow. SCILLA, [focalled of axtaro, to make dry, becaufe this Plant grows in dry Places; or, as others will have it, of cxaaw, Tam molefted, becaufe the Bulb of this Plant, byits Acri- mony, irritates the Parts to whichit is apply’d.] SCLAREA, [this Plant is % called of oxam@, hard, becaufe it has a hard and dry Stalk.] Clary. The Charaéfers are ; It is averticillate Plant with a labiat ed Flower confifting of one Leaf, whofe Upper-lip, or Cre, 4s hooked, but the Under-lip, or Beard, is divided into three Parts, the middie Segme nt being hollow and bifid ; out of the Flower-cup rifes the Pointal, attended by four Embryo’s, which afterw ards turn to fo many roundifh Seeds, enclofed in a Husk, which was before the Fower-cup. The Species are ; I. Scare$ Zabern. Ic. Common Garde n Clary. 2. Scrarea; vilearis, Janu inofa, amplif~ fimo folio. Tourn. Common downy Clary a a large Leaf. 3- Scrareas; Jaciniatis foliis. Tourn, Clary with jageed Leaves. e, acrid, bulbous Roots like an 4 Scrarea; Lufitanica, ghutinofa, amplifOnion: The Leaves are broad ; the Flowers are fimo folio. Tourn, Portugal Clary with a large like thofe of Oruithogalum, or the ftarry Hyaglutinous Leaf. cinth: They growin a tong Spike, and come out 5. Scrarea ; Indica, flore variegato. Tourn, before the Leaves, Indian Clary witha variegated Flower. The Species are ; 6. Sctrareas rugo/o, verrucofo, € laciniato 1. Scrzia; vulgaris, radice rubra. C. B.P. folio. Tourn. Clary with a rough, warted and Common red Syui/, jagged Leaf. 2. Sciria; radice alba. C. B. P, 'The 4. SCLAREA; glutinofa, floris lutei, varie. White Sguif, Sati, barba ampla cava. Boerh. Ind. Glutinous Thefe Plants are very common upon the Clary with a yellow variegated Flower, having fandy Shoars of Spain and the Levant , from a large hollow Beard, commonly called Jupiter's whence their Roots are annually brough t to Diftaff. England, for Medicinal Ufe. But I was lately 8. Sctarea; folio falvie, minor, five glainformed by a Letter from Dr. Willia m Ste- bra, Tourn. Leffler or fmooth Clary with ‘vens, Profeflor of Botany at Dublin, a that the Sage Leaf. White Squil_grows in great Plenty upon the 9. Scta rea ; Orientalis, folio Sea Coaft of the County of Kerry in Treland; acutiffimo, coma purpurafcente. I. Cor. Betonica Eafterti which is the only Place in which it has been Clary with a fharp-pointed Betony Leaf anda found growing wild in thefe Parts of Europe. purplith Top. But altho’ thefe Roots are brought overc hiefly lo. Scrarea ; pratenfis, foliis ferratis, flore for Medicinal Ufe, yet are they worthy of Suave rnbente. Tourn, Mead being cultivated in every good Garden, for ferrated Leaves, and a foft red ow Clary with Flower. the Beauty of their Flowers, which : make a The common Garden Clary is chiefly cultivery handfome- Appearance when they are vated in England for medicinal Ufe, but the ftrong Roots, other Sorts are preferved in Botanick Garden The beft Time to traniplant thefe s, Roots for the Sake of Variet y, with many other Sorts is in May, when their Leaves are decay’d ; of lefs Note ; however, thofe here mentioned or if the Roots are brought from abroad, are worthy of a Place in large Gardens, if they can be procured firm at that ora little after, they fhould be planted Seafon, where, if they are intermix’d among other of light, fandy Earth, and placed in Pots large growing Plants, they will afford a pretty Windows of the Green-houfe, where, in the Variety, efpecially the fifth, eighth, ninth, if they and tenth Sorts, which produce long are blowing Roots, they will Spikes flower the Fuly of beautiful Flowers, and continue a long Time following. 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Thefe Plants muft be preferved in Shelter All thefe Sorts may be during the Winter Seafon, gated by fowbecaufe if their ing of their Seeds upon a propa Bed offrefh Earth Leaves are deftroy’d by Froft in Winter, the in March, and when the Plants Roots are {ubject to perith; but are comeup; in Summer theyfhould be tranfplanted into they fhould be expofed to the Beds of frefh open Air, and Earth, about eight Inche in dry Weather they muft s afund er, obferving be frequently to water “em until they have watered, efpecially during taken Root, after the Seafon their which they will require no farther Care, but ~€aves are on, or that they are in Flower ; to keep them clear from Weeds but when the Roots are until J nae in a State of Reft, mas, when they fhould be tranfplanted mE? they fhould have but little at that Time will rot them, Moifture, for Wet the Places where they are to remain, placing Theyare pretty them at a large h ardy, and do onlyrequir Diftance, for they {pread eto be fheltered from pretty far, provided hard Froft; but mutt have the Soil be good pe as poflible in open Weather, as much free Air Sd SC thefe Plants are planted for a Crop, Lae for medicinal Ufe, they fhould beplanted in Rows sG Rows two Feet and a half afunder, and the Plants eighteen Inches diftant in the Rows: But the other Sorts to be placed in Borders, fhould be planted eight or ten Feet diftant, being intermixed with other Plants, Some of thefe Sorts will endure many Years, provided they are planted on a frefh Soil, not over moift or rich ; but others do rarely continue longer than the fecond Year, perifhing foon after they have perfeéted their Seeds; thefe fhould therefore be often renewed from Seeds, to have a Continuance of ’em; but the other Sorts maybe increafed byparting their Roots, the beft Time for which is at Michaelmas, whentheir Stems begini to decay. SCORDIUM, [this Plant takes this Name of sxbesSov, Garlick, becaufe it has the Smell of Garlick.]_ Water Germander, The Charaéfers are ; to which if it be expofed, it is often deftray’d; This may be propagated by fowing the Seeds as the formef, but when the Plants come Ups they fhould be placed in Pots of freth Earth, and in inter put in an airy Part of the Greenhoufe, where they may enjoy the free Air when the Weatheris mild, forif they are too much drawn, they ate fabjeét to mould and decay. In the Summer Seafon they fhould be expofed to the open-Air, with Myrtles and other Foreign Plants, and mutt be frequently refrefh’d with Water. SCORPIOIDES, [fo call’d becaufe the Husk being wreathed, refembles the Tail of a Dragon. It is by fome called Campoides, of xaumds, a Canker-Worm, and sidG, Form.) Caterpillars. The Charaéfers are ; It hath a papilionaceous Flower, out of whofe The Flowers are like thofe of Germander, Impalement rifes the Pointal, which afterwards which are produced from the Wings of the ves; the Flower-cup is tubulous, and the becomes a jointed Pod, convoluted like a Snail or Caterpillar, having a Seed in each Foint, le Plant fells like Garlick. which is for the moft part of an Oval Figure. The Species are ; 1. Scorprum; C.B.P. Common Water The Species are ; Germander. 1. Scorprorpes ; Bupleuri folio. C. B. P: 2. Scoxnium 3 alterum, five Salvia agreThe great rough Caterpillar. fis. C. B. P, Wild Sage, vulgé. 2. Scorptorpes ; Bupleuri folio, corniculis 3. Scoxvium frutefcens, folio angufto Sal~ afperis, magis in fe contortis € convolutis, Mor. i@, lore luteolo. Boerb. Ind. Shrubby wild Hifi. Prickly Caterpillar. with a narrowSage Leaf and yellowith 3. Sconprotpes ; Bupleuri folio, filiquis Flowers ft of thefé Plants grows wild in moift 1 the Ifle of Bly, in great Plenty, but dow it is propagated in Gardens for Jfe. This Plant is increafed by he Roots, or from Cuttings or Slips ; the beft Time for this Work is in the Beginning of March. 'Thefe Slips muft be planted in Beds of moift Earth, about four orfive Inches afunder, obferving to water them well il they have takeri Root, after which they require no further Care but to Keep ’em clear from Weeds, and in Fuly the Plantswill be fit to cut for medicinal Ufe, being at that Time in Flower. But it is not proper to tranfPlant them every Year, for then the Crop will be {maller, therefore every other Year will be fufficient to renew thefe Beds ;_ nor levibus. Park. Theat. Smooth-podded Cater= pillar. 4. Scorprornss ; filiqua craffa. Boelii. Ger Emac. Thick-podded Caterpillar. Thefe Plants are prefervedin feveral curious Gardens, for their Oddnef§ more than for any great Beauty: They are all of them annual Plants, which are propagated by fowing their Seeds upon a Bed of light, frefli Earth, and when the Plants are come up, they fhould be thinned, fo as to leave ’em about ten Inches or a Foot afunder, becaufe their Branches trail upon the Ground, and if they have not Room, they are apt to over-bear each other, and thereby are veryoften rotted, efpecially in moift Seafons. ‘The Weeds fhould alfo be diligently clear’d from ’em, otherwife they will grow over and deftroy em: In June thould they be planted again upon the fame thefe Plants will produce fmall, yellow, papiGround, but upon a freth Spot, otherwife lionaceous Flowers, which are fucceeded by theywill nor thrive. Pods, fo much like Caterpillars, that a Perfon The Wild Sage is very common in Woods at a {mall Diftance would imagine they were and fhady Places in divers Parts of England, real Caterpillars feeding on the Plants ; and and is rarely cultivated in Gardens, except by it is for this Oddnefs of their Pods that thefe thofe who are curious in Botany. ‘This may Plants are chiefly preferved., } be propagated by fowing the Seeds in the Thefe Plants do feldomthrive well if they Spring, upon a Bed of freth Earth, and when are tranfplanted, therefore the beft Method is the Plants are come up, they fhould be tranf- to put in three or four good Seeds, in each planted out, at about a Foot afunder, upon a ht, frefh Soil, obferving to water them they have taken Root, after which they ire no further Care, but to keep ’em clear from W eeds, for theyare extream hardy, and will abide many Years in almoft anySoil or ation. r The third Sort is of a more tender Nature, andrequires to be thelter’d from fevere Froft, Place where you would have the Plants remain, (which maybe in the Middle oflarge Borders in the Pleafure-Garden, where being inter- mix’d with other Plants, they will afford a pleafing Variety) : When the Plants come up, there thould be only one of the moft promifing left in each Place, which fhould be conftantly kept clear from Weeds, and when their Pods are ripe, they fhould be gathered and |
