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B o ri# . - have been the moft carefully explored, as: well as containing the mo ft
intpreftjjflg plants, are chiefly referred to in the following lift.
The fpecies- belonging to the large family of compound Bowers, in-
. eluding nearly the whole of the clafs Syngenefid o f Linnaeus, are very numerous.
O f thele federal are introduced at prefent into/our flower gardens
; fuch are Echinops fph3eroc'c.pbalus,.£&ifo; th iftlc ; Onopordoti Illy-
ricum, woolly thifcle ; Carlina-iGorymbdfa,. racejmpfa,-and lariata', all three
fpecies- o f the Carliue thljlle, and natives of P ro vin ce; Atraflylis can-
cdlata, d ijla ff thijlle ; feveral fpecies of Gcntaurca, among’others O. be-
nedidfa, blejfcd thijlle y Santolina in can a, lavender cotton ~ Artemifia
rupeftris, mountain foutbernmm&k and A. abrotanum, common fotiiherir
■wood, both of them plentiful on the rocks of Dauphine and Provence.
Tuflilago and Cacalia alpina, alpine Coltsfoot and . Cacalia,, abounding p
the mountairiws^fkr4%ers*efi''^aivoyi and Bledmont t«apanc lj e4<Mserulea
'and -luteay ‘ blue and y&Uavd 5Jhaify After ’AIpirMsfland«»arifle llijfe
Michaelmas daify. A few e fo u 1 feijlr _Y ege tab 1 Jldifi n |L an -
.guedfeq and Provence, ■ .but :are;iegltiyaitedg^mut i KheheELr^Edeps,' - arrange
therrifelyes under 'th is ' clafsl*(fTorfi^fl;anee,h^na^aafeoIy®j®||'i'^r-
ticboke ; Tragopogon p o rrifo lip p a j,,^ ^ ^ 7 ansdf-Seorz^nera, JESS-m^a,
fcorzonera. Twoo o r, three a re ^ fe 'd in mj^i&ine,' %pfea%|(^h&etum
balfanuta^jcg^/sdry,; Arnica 'mQptapd^ lggpffl^s^$pe$;A»nthemlsjgjj%e-
thruro, pelptory ^f^S p a in ^ fo u p d -in 'the Mp$tdenier.
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'Hue ^odcurtiber, the -melon, tihelgour^, and '^riMfekindfeAalfnpn
1 hough^cultiyatpd largely a n d 1 wi tb, gre^Legfe in,the^Sraith .0f, Fralife: are
y e t natives of hotter climates only, onehoTthis -natural -TarajlMaffi
Momordica elaterium, fq u irtin g ■ cu.climber.,. properly belongs \X&a,the
Fren e h y flo ra-jJ^d ^ rs in a trujy wild'ftate on low ^ p f e ‘fo < ^ jU O fo -
vence and Languedoc.:: -
O f the ringerit or galeated plants, numerous fpecies are natives of
France, not many of w hich, however, have found their way into Eng-
ljfh gardens ; the following are aim oft the whole that are in any requeft
for their beauty or life, all of which are natives of Languedoc:, Provence,
or Dauphine. Acanthus fpinofus, and mollis, prickly and fmooth
acanthus ; Antirrhinum Monfpeflulanum, M ontpellier fnapdragon; |ji?>
C H A P .-1V, \ N A T U R A L ' GEOGRAPHY.
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dicnlwjlfamtnea and' inearnata }-rOr%'apum Crptiepip', Qr-etdp.origan y •
Melifl'a officinalis, Imum ; Hyffopus officinalisg a r den hyjfop | Lavandii-
la (ftcechas^^z^|t’/21we^^r4.' R'dfinarinuS,:^binaljs, rofemq.ry $ and Salvia
Jen J& eJi'y
i'| ’,ji^?H^l>er -:is. fixatedttlyLwIropicsy the
m SftaoepW' 1
'iffbabrt i t : |^S|n,thL^^Ai)|^,is 'c|^lt-kulai'lytrich in thefe i f
fplendid and fragrant vegetables, feveral of which have been natural-
hed.k^cmtjg^dbns,, ai$,coiift ncJdhu^Lnncjpal, ornament. Of the
th qf France,
jh e ir f^ L l v Voter Engftlh
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a or M m m m W E E B B B B B U B BM m
^ | t ^ «i;^yM lM gditerraneao,,i)rovincus of. as I
I .P ^ f Romujn, sand, fp ^ r t a g n t h ^ ^ r ^ - ^ , {pompqdor& .
'A g ^ lo jh ly fc ts, , l S J
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H%« d0kn e '■ d g r o w i n g '
luxuriantly on the very beach j. a^d.-pjj’. ^ .lower cliffs of .the Nicerte
and Genoefe Alps, the gigantic; Agave, American aloe, now naturalized
to the foil and climate, raifes her ftatelj flower ftein to the. height of
20 or 30 feet, and looks down on every Jierbaceous plant of Euro- V ^
p?^nh)Hhifi., i . -
Allied to the bulbiferous are the tuberous rooted plants with fworci-
ftiaped^aves, Teveral fpecies of which'are found in -France | the moft ‘' f
beautiful and .worthy of notice are Gladiolus, communis, corn flao--y
abundant, in the cultivated lands of the middle and fo.utliern provinces •
the ins Germanica, large purple jle u r d e lis, in Alface and on the Ger-
mau frQntler \ and Iris puinila and nuu itima, d iv a r fa n d fta fle u r dc Us, "
OT fegant little: plants, that are occafionally met with in Provence, and 1
Languedoc.
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