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Show 'Ihe Hijlory of P L A N T S. YUCCA. T HERE is no calyx; the corolla is of a campanulatf,':d fhape, and ~o~·med of fix large, oval petals, cohering at their b~fe; or of a fingle _petal, divtded_ almoft to the bafe into {o many fegments. The fiamma are fix very i11ott filaments, thtckeft at top, and reflex; the ant~er<I! are fm_all; the. germen ~s obl~ng,, obtufely triquetrous, and longer thap the fiamma; th~r.e 1~ no ~yle: th.e ~1gma ts tnfid, obtu!e, pervious and each of the three fegments IS bifid : the fruit IS an oblong, obtu!e!y triangu!' ar capfule, with three furrows,; it is forme? of .three valves, and contains three cells: the feeds are numerous and incumbent, m a double order. The Yucca approaches very near to the aloe, but is abfolutely a diftinet genus. I, rucca jofiis margine integerrimis. The rucca, with even edges to the leaves. '1tbt 1Jnlltnn l/5t:tatl 10tant. The root ~s tuberous and very large, divided into many portions, and ~overed with a reddiG1 crull, or bark, but white within : the leaves !land in. an orbtcular manner; . they are a foot and half long, three inches broad, and of~ bl01q1-green colour : they are hard, ~ough, carinated, even at the edges, and termmate m a convoluted fpine a~ the extremhy. The fialk is round, thick, fmooth, and grows to three or four feet high; toward the top it divides into a number o_f branches, a~d oH thefe ftand numerous, large, and beautiful flowers ; they. are white ftre~ked With purpl~. It is a native of many parts. of Amenca,. Ray calls It, Yucca. Peruviana; C:· Bauhine, Yucca foliis aloes. A kmd of bread lS made from the dned root of th1s plant by the Indians, which qmch refembles that made from the root of the Ca!fada. 2. rucca foliorum margine crenulato. 'Ihe rucca, with crent~lated' leaves. The root is large, tuberops, and white; the leaves are two feet long, and th ree inches broad, fucculent, thick, and ever-green : they are of a bluifh-green, and very lightly crenated at the edges ; they rife in an oblique dirctl:ion from the root, and often bend backwards at their ends: the fialk is round, fmooth, ramofe, and brownifh ; the flowers are large, and of a pale flefb colour. It is a native of America ; we have it in feme of our fioves. C. Bauhine calls it, Draconi arbori aHinis Americana. AGAVE. T HERE is no calyx. The corolla is of a regular figure and eretl:, compofed of a fingle petal ; the tube is long and gibbous; the limb is divided into fix fegments : the ftamina are fix {ubulated filam~nts, longer than the corolla : the anther~ are oblong and incumbent; the germen ftands under the corolla: the ftyle is fimple, nearly of the length of the ftamina : the ftigma trifid and obtqfe : the fruit is an oblong cap(ule, marked with three furrows, formed of three valves, and containing three cells: the fe~ds are numerous, and of an angular figure. Agave foliis Jpinofo-dentatis mucronatifque. The Agave, with fpinoje, dentate, and mucronated leaves. · <!5rtat~nte~ rtcan ~toe. The root is very large, oblong, crooked, and, as it were, jointed, The leaves are five feet long, fix inches broad, near the bafe, and two or three inches thick ; they are hollowed, and of a blui01-green colour: the extremity terminates in a robufl, brown fpine, of two inches long; and the edges are befet with fpines of the fame kind, only fmaller, ·and bent downwards. The fialk is round, as thick as a man's arm, and fifteen feet high. The upper part of this ftalk forms a fpike of flowers fix feet, or more, in length; the flowers are yellow, and ftand in clufters on peduncles, growing gradually 1l1orter, in a regular and beautiful manner toward the top, fo as to make the whole fpike pyramidal. It T s. . Jt is a native of m.any of the warmer parts of America ; we have it very commori m our gardens, but It rarely flowers. It has been pretepded only once in a hundred years; but this is as fabulous as the idle circum fiances recorded, as attending the opening of the flowers. C. Bauhihe calls it, Aloe folio in oblongum mucronem abeunte; Cluliu s, Aloe ex America. I H E M E R 0 C A L L I S. THERE is no calyx; the corolla is of an infundibuliform figure; the tube is . fhort: the limb is paten~, and divided into fix fomewhat reflex fegments: the .fiamma are fix fubu}ated, decimated filaments, of ,the length of the corolla; the upper ones fomewbat fhorter than the others ' the anther::.e are oblong, incumbent, and aifurgent ~ the germen _.is roundifh. a~d rulcated : the. ftyle is filiform, of the length ~nd .fituatton o_f the il:ami.na : the ibgma 1s obtufely tngonal and affurgent : the fruit J.S an ovato-tnlobous, tngonal capfulF, formed of three va1ves, and containing three ceUs : the feeas a.re numerou.s :md roundifh. . This genus comprehends the Lilioafphodelus and the tiliafirum of Tournefort. In the ~ilioafph?~elus, the germen !lands within t~e receptacle of a monopetalous corolla; m the Liltaftrum, the germen ~as the fame fituation in a corolla, more properly hexapetalous. 1. Hemerocallis Jcapo ramrfo, corollis monopetalis. majoribus. The large, mo:topttalous-jfowered, ramqfe-fialked H-emerocallis. The root ls compofed of a number of oblong, tuberous bodies, of a yellowifh ~o~ ~ur o.n the out fide, and white within: . the leaves ~bich a rife immediately from it are e1ght mches long,, three quarters of an mch broad, and. o£ a bright green :1 the fialk is rou~d, n_aked, thick, ii.nooth, and grows to three feet high, and is divided into feveral ram1ficat10ns ~oward the top : the flowers ftand along thefe ramifications, and are of a dufky yellowt{h red; they are very large, and much refemble. thofe of the red lily: the fides of the petals are undulated and venous; the fiyle is firiate. It is a native of Hungary; we have it in our gardens. C. Bauhine calls it) Lilium rubrum afphodeli radice. 2. Hemerocallisflapo ramr?fo, corollis monopetalis minoribus. 3tbe VtUOU1, Thefinaller, monopetalous-jlowered Hemerocallis. ttap J.Ltlp. ~he root is tuberous and ~ompofite; the leaves are four or five inches long, and half an mch broad: the fialk IS round, flender, ramofe, and near two feet high : the flowers fiand on the ramific~tions at the top, and are fcarce half fo large as thofe of ~he former.: the petals are neither undulated nor venous at the edges; and the colour IS a fine bnght yellow. It is a. nati~e of Siberia, and ma!1Y other places; C. Bauhine calls it, Liliurn luteum afphodeh radtce; Toumefort, Lihoafphodelus luteus. 3~ Hemerocallis Jcapo Jimplici,_ cor~llis hexapetalis. <1f5rtat, lbbitt The jimple-.ftalked Hemeroca_llzs, wtth hexapetalous flowers. ~ptilttlllO~t. '!'he root is compofed of a great number of large, long, and thick filaments ; the radtcalleaves ftand 111 clullers, and are long, narrow, of a deep green colour, and indofe o~e an?ther at the bafe : the fl:alk is round, thick, firm, green, and a foot, or more, m hetght : the flowers are numerous, large, and of a fnow-white; their antherre only yellow. They ftand in a . kind of fpiked clufter at the top of the fl:alk and very much refemble the flowers of the common white lily except that they ar~ fmaller. ' - l' It_ is a native o.f the Alps, and of ~orne parts of Germany. Tournefort calls it, Li/ a!b.um flore maJore albo; J. Bauh1ne, Phalangium flore Iilii; and C. Batihine Pha- .utngmm magno florc. ' Clafi |