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Show The Hi.flory of P L A N . T S. the plant is faid to be proliferous. The whole plant is covered with .a hoary ~anugo, and {mells fragrant and aron:atic. ~t'~ taft~ is very pu~gent. an~ ac~td, burnmg the mouth, on taking the leaft ptece of 1t .mto 1t : the r~~t 1s qu~te mfiptd. This fpecies is perennial ; it flow~rs m Augu~. It IS a native of Canada, ~nd fame other parts of North America. It ts preferved m the green-houfes of our cunous people, and flowers there regularly. Cornutus, to whom. we ?we t~e knowledge of it, calls it, Origanum fiftulofum Cana~enfe. IY!ori~on calls ~t, Clmopodtum Ca~adenfe ~ajus, hirfutum, florib~s fiftulofis. Lmnreus, m ht$ H. Chffert. Monarda flonbus capita-tis caule obtufo. 2. Monarda floribus verticillatis corollis punElatis. 7he verticilla!e Monarda, with punE!ated flowers. The root of this fpecies is compofed of a number of white fibres, infipid to the tafie. The plant rifes to eight or ten inches high : the fialk is fquare, and the leaves oblong, narrow, and of an extreamly fragrant finell. The flowers fl:and in clufters, in a verticillate manner, furrounding the ftalks : there grow under every clufter o~ them ten or twelve reddilh leaves: the flowers themfelves are large, and of a beauuful yellow colour, and are variegated with purple fpots. This fpecies is a native of Virginia, but it is not eafy to make it fiand more than the firfi year in our gardens, though naturally a perennial plant. _ The Monardre have improperly been ranked among the clinopodia and ocyma by moft authors. C 0 -L L I N S 0 N I A. T HE calyx of the Collinfonia is a fmall perianthium, compofed of a fingle leaf, divided into five lhort and equal denticles at the extremity : the three upper ones are convex and inflex, and the two lower ones patent and fubulated. The whole cup is permanent: the corolla is monopetalous and unequal: the tube is of a conico-cylindraceous fhape, and is much larger than the cup : the limb is quadrifid and ereCt : one of the fegment~is very long, and is divided to the middle into other fmaller, ramofe, and capillary lacinire. The fegment, oppofite to this, is very fmall, emarginated, and acute: the lateral or alternate ones are oppofite to one, another, . and are ereCt, entire, and very fmall. The !lamina are two ereCt and very long fetaceous filamen ts: the antherre are fimple: the germen of the pi!l:il is globofe; the ftyle is fetaceous, of the length of the !lamina, and inclines to one fide ; the ftigma is bifid and acute. The feed is fingle, and of a globular figure, and is contained in the bottom of the cup. Of this genus there is but one known fpecies. C 0 L L I N S 0 N A. The ro~t is compofed of a multitude of white and thick fibres. The ftalk is fqu are, and grows to three or four feet high. The leaves fiand on pedicles, and are large, and of an obfcure green, broad eft: near the bafe, and terminate in a paint ; they are deeply ferrated round the edges. The flowers are numerous, and moderately large ; they are of a pale red. It is a native of North America, but is now frequent in our gardens. None of the old authors were acquainted with it. MORIN A. T HE calyx of the Marina is double: the perianthium of the fruit is of a cylindric figur~, tubulous and permanent; it is compofed of a fingle leaf, dentated at the verge: two of the oppofite denticuli are longer than the reft, and all of them are fubulated and acute. The perianthium of the flower is bifid, tubulous, and compofed alfo of one leaf: the fegments are emargmated, obtufe, ereCt and permanent, and are of the fize of the others. The corolla confifts of a fingle pe:at: th~ tube is e~treamly long, large at the top, and fomewhat crooked i at the bafe 1t 1s thm and capillary. The limb is plain, obtufe, The Hiftory of P L A N T S. 1 77 tufe, and bilabiate : the upper lip is fmall and femibifid ; the lower lip is divided into three obtufe fegments, the middle one of which is longer than the others. The fl:amina are two fetaceous filaments, {horter tha~ the limb; they fiand parallel, and prefs the fiyle. The anther:£ are ereCt and approximate, and of a cordated figure: the ger! nen ?f the pifl:il is gl6bofe, and is p~aced under. the r.eceptacle of the. flower : the fiyle 1s captllary, and longer than the fiamma; the 1hgma IS peltated, capttated, and inflex. After the flower there appears a fingle naked feed, which is coronated with the cup of the flower, and ftands in the other cup. This genus comprehends the Morin a of Tournefort, and the Diototheca of Vaillant. Of this there is but one known fpecies. M 0 R I N A. The root is oblong, ilender, white, and furniilied with a few fibres: the radical leaves are eight inches long, moderately broad, divided at the edges, and of a duiky green. The fialks are ereCt and robufr; the leaves fiand ufually two at a joint· [ornetimes, though l~fs frequently, there are four together : the flowers fiand on t 1 he tops of the branches m clufters, or heads, and are finall and reddiili. It is a native of the Eaft. Vaillant has defcribed it under the name of Diototheca carlince foliis ex· adverfo binis; Tournefort, under that of Marina Orientalis carlin::e folio. C!afs the Second. Order the Second. D I A N D R I A D I G Y N I A. P /ants which have two .ftamina and two jJyli in each flower. B. U F F 0 N I A . . T HE calyx is a perianthium, confifting · of four leaves· the corolJa confifis of four petals : the fiamina are two ; the ftyles are alfo :wo; and the fruit is a capfule, containing only one cell, but in it a number of fmall feeds. Of this genus there is but one known fpecies. B u F F 0 N I A. The root of this plant is oblong, ilender, and furni{hed with a number of fibres whitifh and flexible. The ftalk rifes to fix o~ eight inches ~igh, it is round, and very flender, yet robuft and ft~o~g enough to keep ttfelf ereCt; this ftalk has frequent joints, or knots, and, at each JOHlt, there fiand two extremely narrow, graffy leaves; thofe on the lower part of tthe ilalk are about an inch in length, thofe on the upper part fcarce half fo much; all are ~f a pale green colour, and terminate in a point. The fial~s are .bran~hed toward their upper part, · and fend out many fmaller branches from their ramtficattons; thefe are lh~rt, and do not fl:and two oppofite to one another, but alternately. The flowers ft:and m the al::e of the leaves; thGy are fmall and white ; the feed, which follows thefe, is fmall and black. . !his plant is found in fame. parts of England and France, but it is not common; 1t 1s. an. annual, ~nd flow~rs I_n July a~d Augufi. Ray calls it, Alfine polygonoides tenm foho, ~ofcuhs ad lo?g1tudm~m caults velutiin fpicam difpofitis. Magno), Polygonu~ at:g~fl:lilimo, grammeo, foho ereCl:um; and C. Bauhine, Polygono angufiiffimo foho affims. A N T H 0 X A N T H U M. THE calyx of the Antho~anthum is a bivalve glume, containing a fingle flower: the valves are ovate, acummated, and concave, and the inner one is larger than the other. The corolla· is of the l~ngth of the larger valves of the cup, and is alfo a bivalve glume: each_ valv~ o~ this fends forth a fmall fpine, from the lower part of it's back. The neCl:anum 1s ?tphyllous, and very thin, of a cylindric figure, and formed of ovated leaves, furroundtng one another. The fiamina are two capillary filaments of great length ; th~ anthera~ are oblong, and bifurcated at each end ; the germen of the z z pifiil |