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FAGONIA CRETICA. CRETIAN FAGONIA.
Glafs and Qrdef.
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA*
Generic Character.
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Cat g-phylhls. Petala 5, cordata^ Capfi 5-locularisj icxvalvisl
loculis i-fpermis.
Specific Charalfcr and Synonyms.
fAGONIA cretica fpinofa, foliolis lanceolatis planis leevibiifc
Linn i Sp. PI. cd 3 . p . 553. Mont* p. 380.
Linn. SyfttVegetab. ed. 14. Murf. p. 401. Ait-.
Keiv. v. i. p. 62.
TRIFOLIUM fpinoftim Creticurru Cluf. tftft. 2. />» 242. /,
Bauh. Pin. p. 3 30.
FAGONIA cretica fpinofa* fourn. Inft. p. 265.
CLUSIUS is the firft author who has defcribed and figured
this plant, he is very minute in his defcription of it, noticing
the exaft number of its ftamina; it is the more furprifing,
therefore, that he fhould have fo little idea of generic charac
ter, as to rank it with the trefoils merely from the form .of
its leaves: TOURNEFORT, born to illuftrate the genera of
plants, named it Fagonia^ in honour of .his friend and patron,
Monf. FAGON, privy counfellor and confulting phyfician to
LEWIS XlV»
This fpecies is a native of the ifland of Candia, and was
cultivated here by Mr. MILLER, in 1739; it is an annual,
and as it does not perfect its feeds with us in the opert
air, unlefs in very favourable feafonSi it is ufually treated as a
green-houfe plant, its feeds fhould be fown in the autumn, a»
it thereby flowers earlier, and ripe feeds are with more cer*
tainty obtained.
It blofforns from June to Auguft.
The plant from which our drawing was made, flowered tbw.
feafon in the very rich collection of Meffrs. LEE and KENNEDY
Hammerfmith.
Its branches are ufually procumbent, about a foot in lengtn,
and require, if the plant be kept in a pot, to be tied up to a ftick