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Show The Th BRITISH HERBAL. 68 The leaves ftand in pairs, and are of a cordated sr heart-fathioned fhape: they are of a deep furreen; they have no footftalks, and they pairs roundthe ftalk at their bafe. The feveral ; and do not ftand in the fame line, but oppolite grow fometimes, as in our common kind, there of two. three leaves or more at a joint, inftead The flowers ftand on flenderfootftalks, and are of a beautiful blue. The feed veel is round, and the feeds are fall. It is a native of Spain, and flowers in Auguft. Tournefort calls it Anagallis Hifpanica latifolia mo flore, Others, Craciata montana carilea S IX. ROS PRIMULA. tube of the petal is of the length of the HE flower confitts of a fingle petal ina long cup; the and dented in the middle : cup, and its edge is divided inte five fegments, which are obtufe, naked footftalk. is fingle and long; and the flower ftands fingle upon a leecthe feed-veliel in the flowerbeing five, and the Linnzeus places this among his pentandria monogynia, the threads under this name, making them rudiment ofthe fruit fingle : but he includes the cowflip and auricula all one genus. and peculiar virtues, This is not neceflary nor convenient. The cowflip hasits particular name whereas in the primerofe and it is fufficiently diftinguifhed by having feveral flowers upon a ftalk, diftinction from both, there is but one; nor does the auricula want its marks ef DilaVal Ss LON. CE er al. BRITISH The vered; It is flowers CommonPrimrofe. ibn la oul aris. Primula vulgaris. SPECTES. feed-veffel is longifh, flender, and coand the feeds are numerous and roundifh. common in woods and thickets, and in fpring. a fternutatory againft difeafes of the head. The flowers rife among thefe on fingle foot- ftalks : thefe are flender, naked, hairy, whitifh, and eachfuftains one flower. This is large, and white, or yellowith, deeply divided into five fegments, which are broadeft at the end, and indentedthere in a heart fafhioned manner. Dik VS: POUN: all. The beft way is to bruife them, and prefs out the Juice, whichis to be fnuffed up. It occafions violent fneezing, and brings away a great deal of water, but without danger. The ftalk which fupports the flower is three inches high, whitifh, naked, and flender. The flower ftands at the top, fingle and large: it has a green hufk, ribbed in five places, and GE N ae It is common in our paftures, and flowers in May. C. Bauhine calls it Verbafeulumpratenfe odoratum. Others, Paraly/is vulgaris. boil this in ale, and give it in giddineffes of the head with fuccefs. The juice of it, mixed with vinegar, is alfo ufed to fhuff up the nofe, againft headachs: it is lefs violent than the juice of the primrofe root, but very well anfwers its purpofe. The flowers of the cow/lip are of a gently narcotick quality : they are made into conferve and fyrup for this purpofe, and may be given where other medicines of the fame quality would be dangerous : they mitigate pain, promote perfpi- ration, and difpofe gently to fleep. The juice of owflip \eaves- and milk drank every day for a The feed-veffel is long, and the feeds are nu- merous and fmall. It is a native of Turky, and flowersin fpring. Cornutus calls it Primula veris ConftantinopoOthers, Primula purpurea, The Turks call it Carchichec: they give the roots dried and powderedin diforders of the ftomach, and, as is faid, with great fuccefs. Ue is are thofe changes of apy fpecies of plant under d n the{ ment, and other accidents. when they faw a plant whof rally blue or red, with a whit common accident, called it anot was an error, for that is only av In the fame manner, when a and fmall, theyoften defcribed cies: this alfo was erroneous : plants made byftarving, and the more numerous ones by culture arieties ; but no accident of this kind could make a cow/f; duce a primrof I have hac and primrofe, brought into a feeds produce the fame diftinét kinds, and no other. Thefe are the plants, in which thereis a do be diftinét fpecies or varieties called fo, andthe are conclufive. The oxlip feeming -an intermediate f tween the cow/ip andprimrofe, natural] nzeus into this error; but there are thefe grad tions in nature e\ where, though not enou regarded. She travels always by re even fteps: there are no gaps between. The world is indet i rejecting many im 4 properly fet down only and fome other inftances, he has car: point too far. So penetrating ag united with a ftriét and chafte Paralyfis flore majore. wherethere is a yellow ftar. litana. name of v ies, Let the reader on fion properly underftand what vari 2, The Oxlip. SPECTES. oe PRA RAL YOST S: sae by long, lender feed-veffels. month, isa rernedy for inveterate headachs. C.O W S Gal PB: 39 We call it the Great cozw/lip, The root is compofed of many fibres, connected to a fmall head. The leaves are numerous and broad : they are of adark green on the upper fide, and whitith, and fomewhat hairy on the under; rough on the furface, fomewhat uneven at the edges, and obtufely pointed. The ftalks rife in the centre of thefe tufts : they are round, thick, firm, upright, pale-coloured, anda little hairy. On the top of each ftand ten or a dozen flowers ; thefe are {mall and yellow: they ftand in long, hollow, ribbed cups, and are fucceeded fortnight, and afterwards every other day for a lour is a beautiful purple, except in the centre, The root confifts of a fmall head, and a vaft quantity of fhort fibres. The leaves are numerous, and form a thick tuft: they are fhort and broad, irregularly and flightly finuated at the edges, and pointed at the ends. ie caulifera SHUTTER pallido D 1 flore is. veris Paralyfis vulgaris. ‘S It is reported to be a cure in the night-mare. is itfelf divided into five fegments; thefe are broad, and heart-fafhioned at the ends: the co- Purple Primrofe. Primula purpurea folio brevi. 3, CommonCowllip. Dried and powdered, the roots are good in nervous diforders; but the dofe muft be {mall. BOR ELON. WERBSA Linnaus joins this and the preceding under one common genus, with the name difpofition of the flowers is a fufficient diftinétion: It is good againft diforders of the nerves. The root has the principal virtue: the country-people The root is a fhort, thick head, furnifhed with C. Bauhine calls it Verbafculum fylvaticum majus a great number of long and large fibres. Theleaves rife in a great tuft ; and are large, | fngulari flore. oblong, and without footftalks : they are rough, The roots of the common primrofe are ufed as of a deep, but pleafant green, and not dented at the edges. BR ETT St Galt HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, tubular in the lower part, and at the edge divided into five a effe] j fegments, obtufe, and dentedin the middle : the feed-veffel is fingle and oblong : feveral fowers ftand upon one naked ftalk. Linnzus The root confifts of a large, oblong head, from which there run a vaft many long and thick fibres. The leaves are numerous, large, oblong, and rough: they are of a dufky green, and obtufe. In the centre of thefe rifes the ftalk, whichis thick, round, firm, upright, of a pale colour, andfive inches high. The flowers ftandin a clufter at the top of this ftalk, in the manner of cow/lip flowers, but in every refpect larger: they are from eight or ten to twenty in number ; they have long and flender footftalks ; and they are much broader, and of a w/lip flower: they have very much the afpect of a parcel of fmall! prim1 cow/flip {talk : their colour is a rofes fixed uy yellow, and they have very little fmell. whitith 1on in our paftures, flowering It is with the C._B The root is comp long fibres. Theleaves rife in a little tuft, and are long and narrow: they are fmooth, of a pale green, and fharply ferrated at the edges. They fpread themfelves every way on the ground, andhave nofootftalks. The ftalk is round and fir pright, and four inches high. On its top { nd many flowers, as in the owl but more ereét, and in general more numerous: they are fmall, of a beautiful 5 red; andeachftandsfeparately on a lon A der footftalk, all rifing from the fame point on the main ftalk. The feed-veffels are fmall and oblong, and ; numerous and very minute. in more than colour from the coz f heart-fafhioned or dented at the ends, but plain. T Ir |
