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Show 1be Hi.ftory of P L AN T S. they are very long and narrow, of a pale green colour, and have a few white hairs 0 them : the flowers are large and numerous ; they fiand on moderately long pedicles, are of a pale red, and the petals are emarginated. . . It is a native of Sicily. Ray calls it, Pfeudomelantluum glabrum Stculum ; Boc~ cone, Lychnis foliis glabris calyce duriore ; Morifon, Nigellaftrum flore rubella. L Y C H N I S. T HE calyx is a roundilh, inflated, permanent perianthium, formed of a fingle leaf, and divided into five lhort fegments at the edge : the corolla confi!ls of five petals; their ungues are of the length of the cup, and are plane and membranated : the limb is plain, and the bractere of the petals are divided into either two or four fegments: the nectarium is compofed of two denticles, placed in the neck of every petal: the fiamina are ten fetaceous filaments, longer than the cup : the anthera! are incumbent ; the germen is of a fuboval figure; the fiyles are five ; they are longer than the fiamina, and of a fubulated figure; the fiigmata are reflex and hoary : the fruit is a capfule, approaching to an oval figure, covered, formed of five valves, and contains only one cell: the feeds are numerous and roundi!h. 1. Lychnis petalis quadrifidis,fruE!u Jubrotundo. 'The round-fruited Lychnis, with quadrijid petals. <lru.cltolb;; tlollltt. The root is oblong and creeping; the fialks are firiated, hollow, jointed, ramofe, and two feet high, often of a reddiili colour : the leaves fiand in pairs, and have no pedicles ; they are long, narrow, and of a deep green ; the flowers fiand on the tops of the branches, and are of a bright red: they are large, and fo deeply divided, that the pe-tals look ragged or fringed. It is common in our meadows. C. Bauhine calls it, Caryophyllus laciniato flore; others, Lychnis plumaria pratenfis. 2. Lychnis j!oribus j.afciculatis fajligiatis. The Lychnis, with Jqfciculated and fa.fligiated flowers. <!onftanttnople jftolller. The root is compofed of a multitude of thick, divaricated fibres; the fl:alks are round, thick, rigid erect, hairy, and hollow ; they grow to two or three feet high: the leaves. fiand two at every joint; they have no pedicles, and are large, oblong, broad, pomted at the entls, and of a deep green, hairy and rough to the touch : the flowers ftand in large clu!lers at the tops of the branches ; they are large, and of a fine fcarlet colour; the petals are bifid,; the flowers fiand very clofe in the clu!ler, and have an agreeable fmell. It is a n.ative of Ruffia and Tartary ; it is frequent in our gardens, where it is called the Lychms, or Con!lantinople Lychnis. It's flowers vary in colour, and other acci? ents; w~enc~ Tournefort a~d other~ have made feveral fpecies of it. C. Bauhine calls 1t, Lychms hufuta flore coccmeo maJor; J. Bauhine, Flos Confiantinopolitanus. AVER R H 0 A. T HE calyx is a fmall, ereCl: periaothium, compofed of five lanceolated, perma· nent leaves.: the corolla confifts of five lanceolated petals, erect in their lower part, but patent m the upper : the fiamina are ten fetaceous filaments, alternately fhorter; th~ five longeft are of the length of the corolla: the antherre are roundilh ; the germen 1s oblong;. the figure of it obfcurely pentagonal : the fiyles are five, fetaceous and erect; the ihgmata are fimple: the fruit is an apple of a turbinated and obtufely pentagonal figure, containing five cells. the feeds are a~gular, and are feparated by membranes. It is an oriental, figured in the Hort. Mal. 47· OXALI S~ Tb~ Hi)lory of P L A N 'i~ S. OXALIS. T HE calyx is a very {hort, permanent perianthium, divided into five parts: the corolla is divided alfo ~nto five parts, w~ich cohere only by their ungues, and are ereCl:, obtufe, and emargmated : the fiamma are ten erect, capillary filaments . the exterior ones lhorter than ~he others : the antherre are roundilh and fulcated : th~ germen is pentangular; the fiyles are five, filiform, and of the length of the fiamina: the fiigmata are obtufe; the fruit is a capfu1e of a pentagonal figure, containing five cells, and fplitting longitudinally at the angles : the feeds are roundia1. This genus comprehends the Oxys of Tournefort, and the Oxyoides of Garcin. The capfule in fome fpecies is 01ort, and the feeds fingle ; in others it is long, and the feeds are numerous. 1. Oxalis fcapo unijloro,foliis ternatis, radice Jquammofoarticulata t11toon 'lbe Jingle-flowered, ternate-leaved Oxalis; with a fquam~ Otl'Cl. mous-articulated root. The root is oblong, of the thicknefs of a quill, jointed and fcaly : the ieaves !land three on each pedicle, and are of a cordated form : the pedicles are three or four inches long, very £lender, and ufually reddilh: the flowers fiand fmgly, on pedicles of the fame kind; they are large, and of a beautiful flelh colour, or white ftriated with pale red. The feed-veifel is pentagonal, and, when ripe, burfts on the leaft touch, and throws out the feeds with great violence. It is common in our woods. C. Bauhine calls it, Trifolium acetofum vulgare ; others, Oxys, Acetofella, and Lujula. The leaves are of a very agreeable acid ta!l:e, and a conferve is kept of them in the lhops, as a refrigerant. 2. Oxalis pedunculis multijloris, caule ramofo herbaceo. ~CUOllJ The many-flowered Oxalis, rwith a ramofe, herbaceous jtalk. (lUtoo'O:fortci. The root is oblong, Dender, and furniilied with a number of fibres 1 the fialks ate flender, ramofe, and .!l:riated; the leaves fiand three together, on long and very Dender pedicles, and are fomewhat hairy, and more deeply c01·dated than in the other fpecies : the flowers are moderately large and yellow. It is a native of Italy. Clufius calls it, Oxys flore luteo4 C 0 T Y LED 0 N. T HE calyx is a very fmall perianthium, formed of one leaf, and divided into five lhort fegments at the edge: the corolla is of a campanulato-turbinated form, lightly divided into five fegments, which are rolled back! the nectarium is compofed of hollow fquammulre, one at the bafe of each of the germina; the !l:amina are ten firait, fubulated filaments, of the length of the corolla ; the anther~ are erect, and furrowed in four places; the germina a(e five in number; they are oblong, thick, and terminate in fo many fubulated fiyles, longer than the fiamina : the fiigmata are fimple : the fruit confifts of five oblong, ventricofe, acuminated capfules, each formed of a fingle valve, and opening longitudinally inwards : the feeds are numerous and fmall ; there is fometimes a fifth lefs in the feveral parts of the fructification. t. Cotyledon Joliis rotundis, crenatis, umbilicatis. The round, crenated, and umbilicated-leaved Cotyledon. ittn u£> Jf2fl;: b el ~ ruo~t. The root is tuberous, and furniilied with a number of flbres; the leaves are round, and half an inch, or more, in diameter, lightly crenated round the edges, fofnctimes almoft entire ;. they fiand on pedicles of two or three inches long, which are inferted ~to their middle, not at the edge : the fialk is round, and moderately thick .; five or 5 U flx |