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Show 86 Theeb-R FT 64. HERBA L. fhort, ferrated, fharp-pointed, and have no footftalks : they are of a yellowifh green at firft, and grow yellow andwitherfoonafterthe ftalk appears. The ftalks are numerous, flender, ftriated, and tolerably upright. 5 On the lower part they have feveral of thofe fmall, fhort leaves mentioned in defcribing the otherfpecies ; but their proper leaves ftand only at the top of eachftalk, andrife from one point. Thefe are broad, fhort, of a dufky green, ferrated, and fharp-pointed: there are fix or eight of them on the top ofevery ftalk, and they have no pedicles. The flowers ftand on very flender footftalks rifing from the centre of the tuft of leaves 5 fometimes there is only one flower on eachfootftalk, fometimes there are two or more: they are {mall and white. Thefeed-vefiel is large, and has feveral ridges, and thefeed is large and brown: Tt is foundin the north of England among mofs and rufhes in damp grounds; and flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls it Pyrola alfines flore Europea. J. Bauhine, Herba trientalis. Schwenkfeldt, Aline alpina, alpine chickweed. 5- Brafilian Wintergreen. Pyrola alfines flore brafiliana. The root confifts of a {mall head and a number of fhort, white fibres, The firft leaves rife in a little tuft, and are fmall, fhort, and without footftalks : they juft form a defence for the tender fhoot of the italk, for which purpofe they feem to be intended by nature; and when that is rifen to a little height and ftrength, they decay. Theftalk is round, flender, not very upright, and of a pale green. ‘Theleaves ftandin a clufter at its top, rifing all from one point : they are large, oblong, broad, fharp-pointed, not at all ferrated at the edges, and of a pale green. The flower is {mall and white; often there is but one on the plant, fometimes more: each is fupported by a long, flender footftalk, andis divided into five or more fegments ; for this divifion is irregular. The feed-veffel is large and fhort. Tt is anative of America, but has been met with in fome parts of England. Mr. Lawfonis re- DIVES 1.ON_ I. corded to have found it n land; and I have{een it in the told me he brought it from Snowc Jen-hi C. Bauhine calls it Pyrola alfines flo Noplants have more pert . on botany than thofe of this genus ; partict | thefe two laft : but it has been becaule ne r they nor any of the others havefallen frefh into the hands of fuch as could beft have difpofed ther Mr. Ray feparates the pyrole under two diftina claffes, though he preferves the ufual and received name pyrofa to all of them: thefe two laft alor he places in the prefent clafs of plants, that have the flower compofedofafingle l i capfule following it: the « the two kinds wehave def ranges among his clafs of pen I am founwilling to imagine! in'that ftri€texamination which is \ occafions, that I rather think nature mayva little in thefe tender points: the d tween a plant whofe flower confifts of fi parate petals and one whereit confifts of a petal divided to the bottom, the fegmenis unit ig only at the tips of the bafe, is fo little, that if may not ftrictly be obferved in the courfe of nature, in which we fee greater varieties. Cer I have feen the flower of the ol where the petals uniting at their bafe were only the divifions of one: this I have obferved repeatedly, and not alone; and this is evid the cafe in the two latter fpeci wherefore have brought them here together. As to Linnzus, he, though he regards not the continuity or divifion of the parts of a flower as any part ofclaffical character, yet for other reafons feparates the pyro/e more widely: the three firft fpecies here treated of he keeps together under the common name pyrola, but the two latter he divides from thofe, and from one another, by feparate clafles; the #, of pyrola he defcribes in a diftiné& genus among heptandria, calling its fruit a berry ; th he allows it to have nojuice, we fhall to retain it here: the other he makes. a {pecies of cort the dogberry. placing it among the ¢e- tranar ila ing its fruit ¢ not a capfule. If alittle liberty be the charaéters of plants, I not to feparate, but to general form together. HORE 1G N.S PE C IBS, Diem SSSee Baka l. Wel oo tet TBR RB ABs 87 It is common in the woods of Sweden and fome parts of Germany ; and flowers in July. Morifon calls it Pyrola fi i flore ampliore. Linnzeus, Pyrola {capo uniflore. 2. Shrubby Wintergreen. Sate fruticofa. . Pyrola 3- Broad-leaved Wintergreen. This is the moft hardy ofall the Pyrola. Its root is long, flender, and woody, and runs under thefurface, fending uptufts of leaves and ftalks in many places: thefe, when they have rifen to flowering, bend downward with the weight of the leaves, and, burying themfelv es in the deep mofs among which they ufually grow, remain, and become as it were fhrubby, fending up young fhoots another year. Pyrola uniflora. there ufually rife fome foms. Fromthe upper clu f thefe leaves rifes flender, upright, weak pedicle, on whichftar the flower. This is large, white, and fingle, and much refembles that of the parnaffia, be larger than the flower of any other pyrola: confifts of a fingle petal, fo deeply divided i five fegments that they appearfivediftin& pet joinedonlyat their bafes, The feed-veffel is larce and : the feeds are fmall. 4 folio latiore. The root is long, flender, woody , brown, {preading. The firft leaves are few and broad: th havefhort footftalks, and are not at all divided orferrated at the edges. The ftalks are humerous, firm, and round, but flender, The leaves grow ufually three from the fame part of the ftalk, but this not uniformlyor certainly fometimes there are two, fometin only One: they are large, broad, and not at all ferrated: they have fhort footft alks; and their colour is a pale green. The flowers are large, beautiful, and whi they grow with the fame uncert aintyas the leaves, fometimes one, fometimes two, and fometimes three, on the fame foorftall. The feed-veffel is large, ribbed , and deprefied, It is commonin the woods of North America, andflowers in June. Gronovius calls it Pyrola petiolis vel trifloris. Petiver, Pyrola mari The ftalks are green, tender, and weak before they take this turn; afterwards they become harder, brown, and woody. The leaves whichrife firft are oblong, broad, i err, ated, of a brownifh green, and without fooral ks: they only appear, as the firft fhoot, and oon decay. Thofe on the branches are of the fame form, andthey ufually ftand thick together: they are narroweft at the bafe, broader toward the end, and have no footftalks : they are of a pale green, and {har he ftalks terminate in long, naked pedicles , ich divide into three or four leffer at the top, andon eachof thefe ftands a fingle flower: this Solio mucronato arbuti. is large, white, and compofed of five fegment s, The virtues of thefe have not been ing at the bafe only; fo that they feemfive tried, but the tafte thews them to be in general fubaftrindiftine petals. gent, as the common kind. Cnt NUE 8 XXV. MULLEIN. VERB AS CU Aaw, confifts TTWE ‘ IE flower of a fingle_ petal, with oF a fhort; tubular part at the bottom, and divided deeply into five feements, which are ufually large and broad: the fruit is a fingle capfule following every of a fhort, turbinated, or conic fig ure, and contains two cells: the cup is divided ements. Linnzeus places this among his pew, 4 monogynia; the threads being five in = o each flower, and the tyle rifing from the rudiment of the fruit fingle, DIVISION BRITISH te Mullein: x. Single-flowered Wintergreen. The root is fall, and creeps under the furfending up tufts of leaves in {pring in many » and ftalks where they have firft rifen ; it the leaves decay fo foon that they are rarely feen together. The ftalks are round, flender, weak, and not at all branched. The leaves grow regularly, but in a very fingular manner: three rife from every joint, and they all grow towardits top. They are fmall, roundith, little ferrated, and The feed-veffel is large, fhort, and brown. It is a native of Germany and of many parts of Afia and America; and flowe rs in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls it Pyrola frutic ans arbuti folio Clufius, Pyrolatertia Srutefcens, t is named white, not from its foware yellow, but from the fingular i its leaves. long, large, divided, and futnithed t manyfibres. firft leaves are verylarge, numerous, and they have no footftalks: theyare a foot half as much or nearly in SPECTE gb: The flowers ftand in a ve y long and thick {pike at the top of theplant: theyare not larg but are of a beautiful yellow. The feed -veffel is lar d brown. It is common by way fides, and flowers July. C, Bauhine calls it Verbajcum mas by teum. Others, Verba te mullein, batus. Wecall it andin fome places Hightaper. 2. Hoary white Mullein. n, thick, upright, hard, and f the fame fhape and colour with ot, only they are {maller, Verbafcum pulverulentum album. The flowers ofthis are yellow, as well as thofe of the former, and it obtains its name in the |