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Show Ther BOR Write DAV. LT Sil O Naik The BRITISH HERBAL, HE eRe B ALL. FORELTG NS PECTIE'S 1, Finger’d-leaved Vervain-Mallow. Theleaves that rife from it are rounded, but have three vifible indentings: they ftand on long foliis dig is large, thick, white, and fpreadThe leaves that. rife from it are large, of a roundith form, but deeply cut in five places : they ftand on long footftalks, andare of a pale green. The ftalks are numerous, firm, and woody: heyrife to fix feet in height, andare of a yelowifh green, and rough to the touch, Theleaves on thefe are numerous, and very beautifully divided into five parts, in a fingered manner: they ftand on roughfootftalks, and are of a pale green. The flowers are numerous and large, and are of a very beautiful brigght red: the feeds ftand in roundedfat clufters. It is a native of Italy, and flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls it Alcea cannal hine, Alcea pen li folio five canna footftalks, and are of a pale green, and hairy. The ftalks are numerous: they rife from the centre of this clufter of leaves; and are round, yellowifh, weak, andten inches high, Theleaves ftand irregularly on them, and are divided each into three parts, andof apale green, and hairy. The flowers are moderately large, and of a bright red; and theyftand in a rough hairy cup. The feeds followin a flat rounded head. It is a native of France andItaly, and fowers in July. C. Ba . J. Bauhine, The virtues of the vervain mallow are the fame with thofe of the common mallow, but inaninferior degree. There are feveral other plants allied to the mallow kind in their general appearance, but producing their feeds in capfules : thefe are diftinguifhed Alcea bir futa. by modern writers under the names of fida, €c. The root is long, white, and thick, and has | and will be treated of in the next clafs. many fibres, 2. Hairy Vervain Mallow. The feeds follow in a {mall roundith head. The footftalks of the leaves are longer than thofe of the flowers, and are flender and weak: each fupports a fingle leaf: this is divided into three parts; but the divifion does not run down to the ftalk: the colour on the upper-fide is a dufky green, and on the under-fide it is paler. It isa native of Germany, and manyother parts of Europe, andflowers earlyin fpring. Gaur C, Bauhinecalls it Trifolium hepaticum flore finplicit ; others, Hepatica nobilis, or Noble liver= wort. It is recommended as an agelutinant, balfamick, and vulnerary. It has been efteemed alfo greatly in diforders of the liver; but it is not fo muchregarded here, as abroad, U han LEOPARDS T.H OR TPAHE flowerconfifts offive petals, with a tuft of threads in the centre : the feeds ftand in a {mall naked clufter: the root is tuberous ; and the leaves are roundifh, and entire. Linnzus places this among the polyandria polygynia, making it a {pecies of ranunculus, not a dif. tinct genus, with its peculiar and proper name. The flowers andfeeds agree with thofe ofthe ranunulus: but the whole afpect of the plant is different from any kind of crowfoot; and the generical character, taking in the leaves and root, is quite difting. There may appear the lefs inconvenience in joining this plant with the ranunclus; becaufe not only the form of the flower andfeeds is the fame, but the plant agrees in its qualities in fome degree with the crowfoots. But as there is anantient diftin@ name for it, and there are grounds in nature for fupporting the diftinction, I have prefervedit. There is properly but one fpecies of thora known. und-leaved Leopard’s Bane, Pi 2 0% A ES ERS Ae it HSGP Thofe of which there are no fpecies natives of BRITAIN. GE NMOBLE. N Ue Ss LIVER WoO HEP ATIC # floweris compofed of three petals, or of feveral ranges of petals, three in each; The feeds ftand ina naked clufter;3 and are r When the flower is fing wers thefe are lefs diftinétlyfeen. s among ththe polyandria polygynia. Inhis firft works he makes it a feparate ge: = . } * ree ter he confound s it with the anemone; but their difference is very obvious a § no cup to the flower. There is properly only one fpecies ofthis plant ; ure has raifed a multitude of varie es of it; fome of which, that appear the moft diftiné&t fromthe reft, have been delcribed by authorsasifdiftin& fpe Blue Hepatica. mplici ceriuleo. ot is compofed of a large flefhy head, da vaft quantity of fibres: thefe laft fo cover the tuberous part on all fides, that it appears, on taking out of 1, to be only a tuft ts of this root rife firft naked flowers, and afterwards the las invertedthe general order 1 of this plant, ir is proper, in the wefollow her courfe. The footftalks which fupport the flowers are fhort, and very flender : oné flower ftands on each, and this is compofed naturally of th fix, or nine petals; for in the wild plant there is found all that variety. When the petals are only thr they ftand in a regular order ; when fix, the a fecondrange of three overthe firft; and when nine, a third range overthat. In the centre there is a great tuft of fibres; and under the flower there is a three-leaved cup, which remains when that is fallen. The common colour of the flower blue in natural itate, fometimes red, and 29 Onthe top of the ftalk ftands a fingle flower, The root is compofed of a.number of oblong pieces, hanging from one head. e leaves that rife fromit ftand onlong footid are nearly round. Theftalk is inferted at the middle, where there is a little dent ; and theyare finely ferrated about the edges. > rifes a fingle ftalk of eight inches d, but dividing fometimes into two, fometimes into three twigs at the top. ear the bottom ofthis ft leaves, refembling thofe from the root, or times alittle dented at the end oppofite i nts alfo they are doubly dented, fo as idea of a divifion into three parts. top of the ftalk ftand feveral leaves of a very different figure ; they are narrow, Tongifh, and ave no footftalks, and are fmall, and not divided at the ec whenit is not divided; when it is, one on eachdiVifion, Thefe are moderately large, and of a very beautiful yellow, compofedof five broad petals, and placed in a cup of five narrow leaves. Thefeeds ftand in a naked clufter; It is a native of the mountains in Switzerland, andother parts of Europe; and flowers in May, J. Bauhine calls it Thora folio cyclaminis, others, a, and Thora valdenfis. Mott authors de{cribe a fmaller fpecies; but it is no more than a variety of this. What we have given, is the ant in its utmoft perfection: whereit is ftarved, the leaves are lefs and more dented ; and there are only two orthree of the narrow ones, and a fingle oweronthe ftalk : but this which is called the /efer thora, being brought into a garden, becomes the fame with the greater. It is accounted poifonous. 180 E. } r is compofed of twelve petals, anc ihas a cup compofed of four leaves: the feeds E nd in a naked clufter, and have long downy filaments. amongthe7£ rynia. It refembles the clematitis in the feeds, but footftalks, only three on each, and thofe not deeply ferrated. The root is 1c The firft le N° 3 woody, and creeping. The ftalks are numerous, woody, weak, and flender: they are four or five feet long g, and diit vided into numerous branches. I ee |