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Show 1290 Th BRIT IS HH BRITISH HERBAL. ofpe ; the threads in each flower being four, ¢ Linneus places this among the feeds contained in a capfule. e andth , fhorter two and , longer two by the nameof le, diftinguifhng them only by ” 5 in Englifh We confufedly call two genera fol c ry | tttle: this is one of them, the the flowerinto red andy of colour fromthe taken epithets prt; but both thefe names are given called coxcomb, and loujec alfo are they ; other the genus lowing ame diftincti4 on byan epithet expreffing Aah f the diitincts a eC ye © 7 have been u ed to the fame ja common to the two genera, and coxcoma, as well as rattle; call them red ¢ xcomh, and yellow and fome, colour of the flower: we #; this difagreeable name is more confined to o thoughthat be not fo univerfal, red and_yell term difting&t from the other, ntly to make it a generical red, but not fu needful, and we call S35 therefore another name is It will be feen there is a yellow-flowered pe by ufe this conftantly, or always to call them It will be proper for the {tudent either to this coxcomb. and diftinét words. fingle being thofe names; Latin their BRITISH DIVISTON 2. Tall*red Coxcomb. 1. Commonred Coxcomb, j The feed-veffel is large and roundifh ; and the feeds are numerous and fmall. It is common in dampplaces on heaths, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Pedicularis pratenfis purpurea. Dadoneus, Fiftularia. Others, Pedicularis rubra vulgaris. Ds whs$a) O No alk RHINANTHUS. DE Vee ols Na /: 184. 2 I BREET LSS Pape Src 1. Common, yellow. Rattle. Rhinanthus vulgaris: The root and furnifhed The ftalk lowifh green, five, at the extremity ; but this is uncertai The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds ar and brown, It is not uncommonin wetplaces, and flowers in July. Tragus calls it Pedicularis campeftris prior cies. “Ray, Pedicularis rubra elatior. cipal difference is the ftature; the male, as ‘it. is called, growing in a more. favourable ground, and being taller. AT: is fhort, flender, crooked, hard, with.many fibres. is round, firm, upright, of a yela foot high, and branched toward. The virtues of thefe plants are not certainly known; but our farmers have an opinion that fheep feeding on them become fubjeét to vermin, whence the Englifh name Joufewort: w foundation there maybe for this, it is an « as old as Tragus; and is not confinedto Britain, for the Flemifh have it as well as we. ves ftand in. pairs: they, are oblong, and have no footftalks: they are broadelt fe, narrower) to the end,,. fharply intl ses, and terminate.in\a point: ris a dufky green, and their fubftance is, and have a fingular | feries up the tops ks, and principally on one fide: they ted cup, like a bladder: the itfelf is fmall, and of a bright yellow. fe rge, rounded, and flatted; are flat and-brown. tures, and flowers in June. ; ‘ JS PE Cle Ss the female, diftinguith fpecies un the name : the pring poundly pinnated, or the fegments themfelves The root is compofed of a multitude of very flower of which is yellow : bythe character of the prefent ogenus AP} pear that they: are quite ‘diftinét: I have therefore retained the name names diftinGtiyely. the two Englifh diftin&tion, and appropriated nctively, 'S r preceding genus, andthat ofrattle only to this. F they are divided only into two parts, inft FO REIGN Yellow Coxcomb. Pedicularis folits pinnatis lutea. The cups are not fo bloated as in'the other fpecies ; and they are rough on the furface: uf RATT L E. E 1# flowerconfilts ofa fingle petal, and approaches to the labiated kind: it is formed into a t ube and twoilips: the tub.is the lips are compreffedat the bafe ; and the upper one is flatleated fhape: the underlip is flat, and divided into three fegments, of which the ted, and of the middle one is the longeft: the cup is: roundifh, fwelled, as if blown up, and divided into four parts : ; 1-veffel is rounded, and compreffed or flatted ; andthe feeds alfo are flatted. among the didynamia angiafpermia; the filaments or threads in each flower 1 are longer, and two fhorter, and the feeds contained in a capfule; s genus and the pedic ris have been always called by the fame Enelifh sropriety of this, by obferving that the epithets of diftinétion taken t fufficient for the feparation of the two genera there being one operly/ of the former, the The root ‘is thick, large, and {prea whitifh, bitter, and full of fibres. The firft leave coe, few in number, and not much divided. The flalks are round, green; thick, ro ht, and a foot andhalf high. re large, deeplydivided ir nated manner, andof apale green, oiten redif The flowers are large, and ufually red, bu Uns TS / The root is long, thick, and divided into feveral parts : it is white and bitter. The firft leaves are large, broad, indented at the edges, and pointed at the ends: they are fo unlike thofe that follow that few would know the plant inthis ftate. The ftalks are thick, green, weak, and not very upright: they are eight or ten inches long, and but little-branched. Theleaves ftand on.them in great. numbers, and are of a. kind of pinnated form, each compofed of feyeral pairs of {maller, fet on a middle rib, with an odd one_at the end; and fome of the loweft.are often. doubly pinnated. The flowers ftand in'a‘confiderable number on the tops of the ftalks:. they are large, of,a bright sed,.and have a great hollow cup: .fometimes are white: their cups are long, angulated, and fmooth. EEN ELL OW rubra elatior. Pedicularis rubra vulgaris. Su SPECIES. GG Hik divided in the fame pinnated manner, 2. Narrow-leaved yellow Rattle. Rhinauthus foliis anguftioribus, The root is long, flender, crooked, and. furnifhed with a multitude of fibres. The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and very muchbranched, andis ufually ofa redifh colour. The leaves are numerous: they ftandin ‘pairs, but at {maller diftances by muchthan in the common kind: they are,very narrow, and fharply dented at the edges 3 of apale green, and not fo broadat the bafe as in the other. The flowers ftand in a long feries on the upper branches, and are beautifully variegated, though very fmall: the top of the flower is yellow, and the upper lip is purple. The whole plant is two foot-high, and very robutt. The feed-veffels are. long and flat; and the feeds are alfo flat, but {mall. It is frequent in paftures in the north of England; and flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls it 4 galli anguftifolia montana. Ray, Pediculis maj guftifolia ramofifina lore minore luteo, labello purpureo. The flowers ftand in a tuft at the top of the ftalk; and are large, and of a pale yellow, large and thick fibres, and is whitifh, tough, and fometimes white : they make a thick, fhort andbitter. fpike, in the manner of the orchis flowers, and The firft leaves are large, long, and divided the upper fegment or galea is very crooked. deeply to the rib in a pinnated manner: they The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds very feem compofed of many pairs of leffer ones, {mall and brown. with an odd one at the end; but, nearer exIt is a native of Italy, and of many other parts amined, thefe are only fegments; and they are of Europe; and flowers in June. notched deeply at the edges, and pointed at the Authors have been greatly divided as to the ends. genus to which it belonged, and have thence The ftalk is round, thick, hollow, redifh, and called it by various names. two foot high. Barrelier calls it Aleforolophus montana flore The leaves ftand: irregularly on it, and are, luteo. C. Bauhine, Filipendula montana flore pedilike thofe from the root, divided deeply in’ the cularia; Others, Filipendula montana. pinnated manner, and fometimes they are com- GENUS FOREIGN S Pit C i E's, row, oblong, not at all indented at the edges, 1 pretty plant. » flender, and full ce, pair from 1ey have no footftalks, Ne a2. and they are nar- andalittle hairy. The flowers ftandat the tops of the ftalks, and have {triated and fwollen cups. The feed-veffel is flatted, but of a rounded figure ; andthe feeds are large, It is a native of Ceylon, and flower: Burman calls it 77 : but it is evidently a plant of this genus. li GENUS |