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Show 62 The SBeR a DP 14S Hi. placed in a fall cup, and are divided intofive long and narrow fegments. The feed-veflels are long, {welled at the bot- tom, andfplit a little at the top, It is a native of Germany and other parts of the north of Europe; and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Gentiana major lutea. Ca merarius and others, fimply, Gentiena ; and fome, from the fegments ofthe flowerbeing fpreadlike the rays of a flar, djlerias This is the fpecies whofe root is the true and proper gentian kept by the druggitts, It is an excellent ftomachick, and is the principal ingredient in bitter tinctures. It @rengthens the ftomach, promotes an appetite, andaffifts digeftion. This root, orange-peel, and cardamom feed infufed in wine or water, either way, make an excellent family bitter. This is its common ufe; but befides this, it ftands recommended againft malignant fevers, and diforders rifing from obftruétions in the vifcera: and it is alfo good a ft worms, and in intermittent fevers. Thebeft tinéture of it is that in white wine. BE ie eReB AL, Phe-A of the ftalks, and are fmall and blue: they are tubular, and divided into four fhort fegments: The feed-vefll is oblong, flender, and fplit at the top, andthefeeds are {mall. It is commonin the northernparts of Europe, andflowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Gentiana cruciata. rarius, Gentiana minor. Came The root has the fametafte, and proba fame virtues, with the common gentian. greatly recommended in peftilential fevers, Great blue Gentian: Howe ceruleo need or> fiore The root is long, large, and divided into feveral parts. Theleaves that rife fromit are long and broad: they have nofootftalks : they are of a deep green colour, and firm fubftance, undivided at the edges, and fharp-pointed. The ftalks rife in the centre of this tuft, and are firm, upright, and twofeet high. The leaves are long and large; they refemble thofe from the root, but are of a paler green andof a fofter fubftance : they have no footftalks, 3. Cr Genti The root is long, thick, and divided into {everal parts. The firft leaves are long and broad; they rife in large tufts, and have no footftalks, The flalks are numerous, round, firm, upright, and eight inches high. The leaves are placed in pairs without footftalks, and furroundthe ftalk at their bafe : they are broad, nervous, of a deep green, and fharppointed ; andthe pairs ufuallyare placed crofswife of one another. The flowers ftandin a thickclufter at the tops E CS St and they are ribbed lengthwife, like thofe of the at gentian: they ftand in pairs, and enclofe E he ftalk at the bottom. The flowers grow from the bofoms of the leaves, from the middle to the top, and not unfrequently fromthe root up to the top, generally two uponeachfootftalk : they are large, and of a beautiful blue, tubular, and divided into five parts at the edge, The feed-veffel is long and flender, and contains a great quantity of {mall feeds. It is a native of Germany, and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Gentiana afclepiadis folio; kre Uiras IV. BERT INTL Sab no footftalks: they are like thofe from the root, but fhorter, of a frefher green, and more pointed: they are undivided at the edges, and tend upwards. Toward the top theftalk divides into feveral branches, commonly, but not conftantly, by two and two: thefe have fmaller and narrower leaves on them, andat their tops tufts of flowers; and all joining, there is formed by the whole, a very large clutter. The flowers are fmall, but of a bright and beautiful red: theyare flender, hollow, and {pread toward the rim, where they are dividedinto five fegments, The feed-veffel is fimple, {mall and long, and thefeeds are numerous and very minute. It is common in dry paftures, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Centay, minus. J. Bauhine, Centaurium minus flore p 0 et albo; the flowers being fometimes white; but this is an uncommon variety. It is an excellent ftomachick: its tafte is bitter, but not uapleafant, and it promotes an appetite, flrengthens theftomach, andaffifts digeftion. It maybe called the Hngli ai. It is excellent in obftructions of the vifcera, I j the and againft worms. The beft c ng itisin infufion, to which may be added lemon-peel and cardamoms, 2. Little yellow Marth-centaury. The root is many parts. The firft leaves are fhort, and obtufe at the end: they have no footftalks, and they quickly growyellowand fade. a The ftalks are numerous, flender, and very much branched: they’ are four or five inches leaves: thefe ftand in pairs, fe, and undivided at the PEER B AcE: The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and ranches, and arelittle, and of a dufky yellow. The feed-vefiels are long, lender, and full of very fmall feeds. It is found on bi England, but is June. Ray calls i Uri noftras. as the fame bitter other. fome parts of It flowers in with the is all, oblong, and dividedinto feveral parts. The ftalk is round, flerider, uf foot and half high ; it is fearce at all and ofa pale yellowith green. The leaves are very fingular ; they feem to be compofed each of a pair of broad and fhort ones, perfeé they form or ollow leaf, of the fhape of a boat, through the centre of which the main ftalk paffes.. No plant is fo perfe tly. perfoliate. Thefe fingularleaves are tender, ofa deep green, andfmail, obtufe at the points; and not at all indented at the edges: they are fmaller toward the lower part of the ftalk, largeft fomewhat above the middle, and thence fmaller again toward the top. The flowers ftand in a loofe clufter at the top of the ftalk, each on a er pedicle: they are of a beautiful yellow: they have a tubular bottom, and are divided at the rim into eight fegments, fo deeply that at firft fight they feem to confift of fo many peta The feed-veflél is oblong and feed {mall, It grows in dry, barren, chalkyplaces, but not very common. It varies extreamly in fize; whence fome.have divided it into a larger and {maller fpecies. It flowers in July. C. Baul t Centaurium luteum perfali- CEN A ULR-Y. CENTAURIU™M. HE flower is {mall, and confifts of a fingle petal; which is of a tubular form, and is divided into feveral fegments at the edge. The feed-veffel is flender, oblong, and fingle, The ftalks and leaves are tender. Linnzus places this among his pentandriad; igynia, making it a {pecie a) s of gentian, not allowing it Dp : . air to be a diftinét genus. But, thoughhtit agrees with gentian i n the ftru@ture of the flower, it differs fufficiently in its whole form and fubftance tance ; the ftalkks of the gentians being hardandrigid, andtheir leaves tough and nervous; whereas thof € of the centaury are tender, as in the generality of otherp lants. Many authors call this Senus cextaurium ent m Sy {mall centaury, having given the name of reat centaury to a plant altogether unlike it, and of a diftin@ clafs. DIV LS ehc@e Na e-leaved Centaury: foliis alternis. ts from all the others in an obvious particular: their leaves grow in pairs ; thofe of this fpecies fingly. Its root is long » yellowifh, divided into feveral parts, and furnifhed with many fibres, The leaves that rife fromit are oblong, broad, even at the edges, fhar a1 BR LT 1 Sy 1. Little Centaury. Centaurium minus vulgare. The root is {mall, Jong, divide d into many parts, and furnifhed with numer ous fibres. Thefirft leaves rife in a tuft: they ate oblon8, e SPE CPEs, broad, fmooth, of a pale green colour, and have no footftalks, The ftalks rife among thefe, and are numerous, flender, upright, eight inches high, and of a yellowith colour. The leaves ftand in pairs on them, and have no the points, and have nofootftalks : rife a little tuft, and are of a pale green; and they foon growpale, and wither when the ftalks rife. The ftalks are numerous, round, upright, very muchbranched, andof a pale yellowith colour: they divide erally in a forked manner, or, as botanifts call it, dichotomoufly, but not univerfally. The leaves ftand alternately, and are of a pale green: they: are not very numerous, and they vary greatly in. fhape. Thofe toward the bottomof theftalk are fuch as rife from the root; thofe higher up’ are longer and narrower; and there are tufts alfo of very {mall and narrow ones in‘ their bofoms, and toward tlie tops of the branches. The flowers are {mall, and white : they do not ftand in clufters at the tops of the ftalks, as in the otherfpecies, but all the way up in a kindofirregular fpikes Its feed-veffels are fmall and cylindrical, and the feeds very {mall and numerous. It is a native of France and Italy, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Centaurium minus Jpicatum t. Others, Centaurium minus album. |