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Show BRI-TIS He The The male flowers rife in catkins from the bofoms of the leaves; and are of a brownith colour. The female flowers ftand in a kind of umbells, and are greenifh. We have it in the ditches of falt-y flowering in Auguft. Ray calls it Potamogiton mar ioribus foliis, fruciu fere umbelli srafly Sea-Pondweed. foliis gramintis. The root confifts of a few {mall fibres. The ftalks are numerous, flender, and branched, and three or four inches in length. The leaves are narrow, grafly, numerous, and of a faint green. G 9B) She HIERIBIAL. Usa oN 8 GBR TES H IE V. thofe on the female of a pale green: thefe lait The Common Hemp. ROWN Feet Linnzus places this among the mozandria, his firft clafs; feparating it far fromall the other apetalous plants. leaves; but there have been three or four varieties of it, folely owing to the manne c deferibed by frivolous writers, as diftin&t fpecies, under the names o mofior, and erefa. One there is truly diftinét, which follows. The root is fmall and fibrous. The plant is of a moft fingularftru€ture, refe ng fome of the fubmarine more than the al kinds, The {talk is compofed of fhort, thick joints ; and is five inches high, and very muchbranched. The branches divide again, and are jointed more confpicuoufly than the main ftalk; and on thefe ftand the flowers, which are fmall and whitifh. The whole plant is naturally of a frefh green, but often red at the lower part, and fometimes throughout. It is common in our falt marfhes, and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Kali geniculatum. Others, Sali ia. Theplant is diftinguifthed from all the others by the fucculency of its branches, and its want of GE LAU Selicornia | Theroot is fibrous. The ftemis. hard, wooddy, and brown. The branches are numerous and tender, and they are naturally redifh. The flowers are fmall, and redifh. Wehave it on our fea-coafts, flowering in June. Raycalls it Kali fra m perenne procumbens. The tender branches of the preceding kindare pickled for fampire ; but it is a fraud, and they are muchinferior. Os PA UL, MERCURY. ripe, is rough, and holds a fingle feed. r Dogs Mercury. i The feeds rife on fmal] footftalks in the bofom of the leaves ; and are of a tefticulated form. It is common under hedges, and flowers in April. C.Bauhine calls it Mercurialis montanatefticulata. Others, Cynocrambe. oA Cynocrambe vulgaris. GW Cou The root is fibrous, white, and {preading. The ftalk is green, round, juicy, and a foot high. The leaves are placed in pairs; and they are green, frefh, oblong, ferrated, and pointed. The male flowers growat the tops ofthe ftalks in fmall, greenifh pikes. EF The plant is poifonous, and has deftroyed many perfons, in brown feries, R'E ea PE N C B ME OR C Oe IX, M ER € URRY: pink Dc Anded Ss. confilts male flower flower confil The male 1 and female, and they grow on feparate ; are male HEflowers fed aments, placed in a {mall cup, cut into three fegments. The female is con ofnir of alike cup, in which are placed two ftyles upon a rounded germen, and two ne¢taria at its fide 7 plants.. Thefeed-veliz] The male flowers hang from fome of the plants 8 VIII. CYNOCRAMBE. US, ments a fingle rudiment of a fruit, with two ftyles. es are large, broad, of a coarfe green, and beautifully divided, with the feements fer- S$ HE fowers are of two kinds, male and female, on the fame plant. The male confift of numerous filaments, in a cup whichfplits into two parts, and thofe turn back. In the female the cup is of like form ; but in it is only a fingle ftyle, fixed to the rudimentof a fruit, which, when Gos Linnzus places this among the diecia be, rated, An emulfion of hemp-feed has fingly cured jaundice. NowUJU ial, DOGS. b. Rowers are of two kinds, male and female, and are produced on feparate plants of the fame es. The male flower is compofedof five; filaments, placed in a five-leaved cup. ‘The female is formedof a large, oval cup, flatted on one fide, made of a fingle leaf, and containing with- Lupulus vulgaris. G7 G9 . 4 The root confifts of numerous, thick fibres, andfends out fpreading fhoots. The flalks are tough, flender, ftriated, and, G Tt is wild in Scotland, but fmall. We cultivate it here in fields for the fervice of the linnen manufactory. It flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Cannabis mas et famina. VI. FL The Common Hop. The root confifts of many fibres, connected to an oblong head. The ftalk is thick, tough, ftriated, and four feet high. The leaves are large, and divided in the manner offingers, and of a dufky green. The flowers on the male plants are whitifh, 2. Shrubby Glaffwort, ee, only ripen feed. J? Cannabis vulgaris. 7 6910 the cup fwells and enclofes it. Salicornia geniculata. PCG. a” The male confifts of five {mall filz- ments, placed in a cup, divided into five fegments. The female have twoftyles, placed on the rudiment ofthe feed in a cup that burfts fideways, The feed is enclofed, as it ripens, in this cup. Linneus places this among the digcia pentandria. HE flower is compofed of a fqvare cup, anda fingle filament, with a fimple ftyle rifing from the rudiment of the feed. This is its whole conftruétion. The feed afterwards ripens, and r. Jointed Glaffwort. VIL. CANN ABs . ol GO Utes EMP (HE flowers are male and female upon feparate plants. Gl AsS SiW O'R T. oe 2a No Ee HERBALL. is tefticulated. Linnacus juftly feparates this from the former. Rayinadvertently joins them as fpecies of one genus, The female,, collected into heads, ripen upon others; and thefe are ufed in brewing. ; The plant is wild in our hedges, and cultivated in grounds for the fervice of the breweryIts young tops are alfo eatable as afpar and as pleafant. C. Bauhine calls it Lupulus mas et famine. The male flowers are greenifh, and grow in flender fpikes.on fome plants. 1 he female rife | from the bofoms of the leaves in others; and are ; The root is fibrous. alfo little and greenith. The ftalk is a foot high, very much bran It is common about hedges, and flowers in ched, and thick fet with leaves: thefe aré oblong, fer- | May. : hi ale i: famina, tee cee el Jis mas et C, Bawhinecalls it Me Fated, and of a beautiful green. French Mercury. Mercuri ua gglabra. |