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Show Th BRITISH HER BA L. SH HERBAL, ine DIV 1S 1-0 N° At FOREIGN t. Many-leaved Pentaphylloides, Orie eonkaes saa Ceca y fee SPECI kis Thefe are placedin four pairs, with an at the end; and are narrow, longith, The root is long and blackith. divided into manyheads, and fpreads underthe furface. The leaves are very numerous. The y ttand on footital| yo inches long, and are compofed of pairs of {maller lez s, With an odd j tated very fharply. They are of a pale green, ang hairy. In the fhape ar difpofiti on of the di vifions they much refemble the leave: mon filverweed. The ftalks are numerous, v der. They do not exceed fout : € ob ong, narro w, Theytrail on the ground, a ted, andof a pale | kind of leaves irregularlyplac are a foot at the root. Toward the t “hey divided in: ry The are Civided into manyv jittle branches, andothe r: $ toward the top, and have the fame kind of the leaves, with thofe from the Toot, but fmaller The flowers are fmall, but of a bea yellow. They confift each of moderately large, and yellow. have atuft of threads in the mi € leaves, and have a tuft The feeds ripen in a {mall hea Yered in part by five of the fegmen ts of the cup. This is frequent in Switzerland, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Quinquefoli S eh Jos; and Parkinfon En eaphyllon ; fromits hay ing @. nine leaves on footftalk, nqucfoliobis | igi afinis, from fmall heads of feed fomewhat refembling an ; All thefe {pecies of pentaphylloides unripe ftrawberry ; but this 2 of is ] efs than in many oil, agree in virtues as they do in thei thers, where it is not obferved. characters with the common cin 2 ofourfield This their tafte manifefts. not been ftrawbery Cinquefoil. feverally tried ; but there is fe root does not poffefs a ftrong aftr Zency. Perhaps um fragifer in this, as in many other cz fes, we The rootis lo do w rong hick, blackith, and woody, in confining our trials to fome one andis well furnithed y fpecies. Others fibres. may have greater virtues in “The leaves are numerous. the £ Pheir footthat commonly ufed. We fee ftalks are an inch and a half this in m Jong; and they are one {pecies of which was regard fe compofed cach of nine P arts, or divided ed in 1 into a long time, but another fe nine fegments, fo deep that fine AS iif they appear feparate. ced; and ma ny others def GE N 0 S IV. 4RGENTINA ed are pinnated, and the ftalks creep andtake root at the j ds agree with thofe ofcinquefo il. This is one of the icofi athor ranking this plant, Cinqu efoil, and pentaphylloides , toget er und there is but one known {peci es, andthat is acommon wildp lant, The root confifts of a {mall head, and a vatt multitude offibres. It is of a deep broy wn, and has an auftere tafte, The leaves rife in creat numbe rs. They ftand on fhort pedicles, and are very beautifully pin- nated, each confit ing of feven or eight Pairs of {I leaves on a fta k, and an odd one at the - Thefe oblong, narrow, deeply ferrated at the edges, are and obtui e at the end s refemblethofe of cinquefoil . They are long, weak, red, and lie upon the ground, taking root at the joints. From thefe places rife alfo newclufters of leaves, The flowers ftand on long naked footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the leaves; and they are ws / very large and beautiful, ach offive petals, of a a gas epee met bee fhining e yellow:oe in th tuft of threads, with yellow buttons; ee erdeers ee i es sa es athey growina rot e Se It is cooling and aftringent : from experience, is the ftools dy, and in the ment The wayof gi der, andits dofe isa fcruple. and, to fpeak iarrhoeas where overflowings of ing it isin pow The young leaves in an infufion arediuretick. T havetriedit in intermittent fevers, and not wholly without fuccefs, thor gh not with that de- cines. From what experier cacy andfafety ofthis, a j our own product, we feem inexcu purfuing thefe ufeful refearches. hasof late becomea fciencen ch Teudiea tor riofity, deferves to be much more cultivated f or ufe. 4 U aS V. TORMENTILL, TORMENTILLA, "THE flower of ¢ zl confifts of four petals, and has a tuft of threads in the middle. The leaves ftand feven upon a ftalk. This is one ofthe icofandri Polygynia of Linnz us ; tho’ it fhews the cl the threads in this being but fixteen , whereas the word icofandria knowledges howeve r, g > that the number twenty is not effentia iven the name. That author feems to have corrected himfelf alfo, for eftablithine his as a acknowledges that it is an artifi ial, rather than a natural diftin@ion; but we with, thofe he has fometimes mifled from the true endof this ftudy, that he had made morefuch er He was in the right here inft his own correction 3 for tormentill, whofe flower confilts of f petals, is naturally diftineuithed as a genus from cinquefoil, whofe flower has five Nature has alfo preferved the diftinétion, by allotting the number of feven this plant, in whichit from the cinquefoil, which has but five: nor ha does it lefs er from the pentaphylloides, which has th e fan he jan ne number, in their manner of growing ftand in the pinnated form, cach 8:: in thofe Iplants, the; w hole leaf confifting of feveral pairs and an odd one; but in éo #ill, they wtogether from one puiut, as in the cinquefoil. Onthefe diftinctions, by whichit is fo I rerfe ctly feparat ed fromall the precedent, andall the quent genera, formentill has a right fubfeto a difting place and name; and it is not Lint rated them, thaterrs; but he would do fo, who, following that author’s fecond tho join this and cinquefoil under one common name: Wehave in this incident, a ftrong inftance how far the love of fyftem will ca ledge; it will lead himto corre& what he did, knowing it to be right, and compel is plainly wrong afterwards, Ofthis oSgenus there are but two known fpecie s F 1. Common Tormentill; Tormentilla vulgaris, SILVERWEED. Common Silverweed, na vulgaris. 7 SE OF es The root is large, thick, and of an irregula r A form ; of a browni:th1 colour on the outfide , redpees 7 t y ae a ith with and furnifhed with manyfibres. ig ¢ . Theleaves that rife fromthe root are few, not A Ere ; ; deeply divide By oed, andof {0 little duration that they re rarely feen, The ftalks are numerous long, flender , redifh, and a little hai They often lie in part upon the grounds but fome ftand upri¢ to the y seGnict leaves grow on them at diftanc S, ' , frens iurround They are each compofed of feven wh are The Their colour : obl oth are natives of E, Tt is an excellent af . the greateft virtue, and m: or in decoétion. ‘he root poffe en in po In the firft way twelve gr; a dofe, in the latter an ounce z half may be 2 Yirey into three pints of water andboiled to a quart. sa ep § “ither. way it is ood in diarrhz eas heeas and I S o thages. cies ace x a | Befide thefe it poffefles the virtues of all times when adiarrhoes good in the {mall pox natrowith, and ferrated. mn fieas Gees y wy si He oe pen ch i = other ott ce aye me i fis ae ee a ieahapoli i , quick atrthe ftalk, takes te ie baccea pet June o Pay M Natren p oe The root pofiefles the greatet virtue ryes to be much mor e knowni nm medicine than it is, € autiful little I Morifon, and other » from its nun the name of ¢¢ “ULGTIS. c cinquefoi ¢ have eftablifhed in the cl vO genera, fhe slong to this. Oot 1s compofed of a fmall head, and a antity of fibres, which are brown, tough 1 ? and of .an auftere tafte, I aves are very bea y divi an ] redifh footftalks, which arc |