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Show The HERBAL BRITISH BRITISH the D svi S-1 Oc No SPECIES. FOREIGN ak The ftalks are lender, naked, and three inches Butterwort with a fhort fpur. Pinguicula calcari breviffimo. The root confifts of numerous fibres, rifing from a {mall head: they are redifh, thick, and high. The flowers ftand fingly, one on each, and they are fmall and white, and have a very fhort fpur. The feed-veffel is oval and large. It is frequent on the mountains in Germany, irregular, and fpread underthe furface. Theleaves rife in a thick clufter, ten or twelve and flowers in June. together. They are long, and haveno footftalks : they are broadeft near the bafe, narrower at the point, and of a pale green colour and flefhy fubftance. Gee Da Ne Raycalls it Pinguicula flore albo minore calcari dreviffimo. Uy. S Il. TOADFLAX, It is of a pale bluifh green; fometimes fimple, andfrequently divided into feveral branches. The leaves are numerous, and ftand irregularly: they are long, narrow, undivided at the edges, and without footftalks: Their colouris a pale bluifh green. The flowers are large, numerous, and beautiful: they ftand in a kind of fpikes at the tops of the ftalks, and are in general of a very pale and very beautiful yellow, with a deeper, or orange yellow in fome parts. The feed-vefiel is large and round: the feeds are {mall and brown. It is common on dry banks, and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Linaria is lutea flore majore. Others, Li lgaris. Our common people, from the mixture of a very pale and deep yellow, call it Butter and eggs. LINARIA. 2. Blue, fweet Toadflax. THE flower confifts of a‘fingle petal, and has a labiated afpect: it is formed into an oblong tube, with a {pur anda pair of lips, the fpace fhut between them. The upper lip is divided into two parts, and turned back at the fides: the lower lip is divided into three parts, and is obtufe; and the piece which fhuts up the fpace between the lips, and may be called the palate, is convex: this The cup is formed of a fingle leaf divided into five fegments, and rerifes from the lower lip. mains when the floweris fallen. ‘The feed-veflel is roundifh, plain, and, when ripe, divided in a regular manner. Linnezus places this among his didynamia angiofpermia ; feparating it eleven elaffes from the pinguicula, to whichit is fo evidently allied. LES That plant, becaufe there are only two threads in each flower, he places among the diandria. Te | ayy] This has its rank with the didynamia; becaufe it has in each flower four threads, two of which are longer, and two fhorter: it comes under the diftinétion of anigio/permia, becaufe its feeds are contained in a capfule; thofe of the other divifion of that clafs ftanding naked in the cup. Linnzus does not allow 4maria to conftitute a diftiné& genus in this clafs; but, taking away the antient and received name, he makes it a fpecies of aatirrbinum, calling all the kinds of toadflax fpecies of /napdragon, Antirrhinum and linaria agree, indeed, as plants of the fame clafs; each having a flower confifting of a fingle petal; each a capfule for the feeds, and each, to follow this moft ingenious author’s more minute refearches, four threads ; two longer, and two fhorter. Linaria caerulea edorata. arvenfe fi The ftalks’ are numerous, and a foot and half high: they are round, flender, upright, and rarely divided into branches. The leaves are very numerous, andtheyftand thick and clofe upon the ftalk: they are of a pale green, very narrow, afd have no footftalks. The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and are of a beautiful pale blue, and ftriated. The feed-veffels are large and rounded. It is found in Cornwal! and Devonfhire ; and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Z J. Bauhi we have wild alfo in our corr fnap ly fo called. numerous, and the joining them all under one generical name would create difficulty, if it did not introduce confufion. and the capfule of the feeds is plain, regular in fhape, and divides regularly when-ripe ; on andis hu The fir i flender, woody, and divided, fewfibres. oblong, fomewhat Thisis a very fufficient diftinction of the genera: Linnzus knew this, for he has mentioned it and if he had not, there would be no doubt of his having obferved it ; becaufe no author has ex- they quickly fade away. His faults are not thofe of omiffion: his misfortune, and that of the world, has been that, having formed a fyftem, which did him credit by its novelty, he would not depart from it in favour of even his own obfervations. This author has not only thus joined the Zaria and antirrhinumin one genus, but he comprehends under the fame character and name alfo, the cymbalaria and elatine; plants which we fhall fhew in the fucceeding genera to befufficiently diftin&t, and well entitled to their feparate names. Da Wel STON. ot. BRET P93 Has P E.C LE Ss: 1; Common Toadflax. Linaria vulgaris. The firft leaves are fimall, flender, pointed, FF, 4 Thy & The root is long, flender, whitifh, hard, and furnifhed with a few fibres. and of a yellowifh green: the ftalk foon grows up amongft thefe, and they immediately fade. The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and two foot high. It they have no fo broad, and of a fF i green: id when the ftalkrifes The ftalk is round, upright, a foot and half high, feldom branched, thous ufually the e a few fhoots fromthe bofoms of the leaves near the top. The leaves are numerous, andof the fhape of thofe of the common toadflax, but fhorter: they have no footftalks : their c is pale green: they are undivided at and of a fefhy fubftance. The flowers ftand in a op of the fta and branches, and they are of a beautiful pale blue. The feed-veffels are large, and the feeds fmal! and brown. It is foundin Surryar counties, in cornfi on : it flowe nus calls afh-coloured, NP. Et, uM + The common toadflax virtues too much ne inwardly and outwardly; and in both kinds very worthyof notice. The whole frefh herb boiled in ale is a country purge; it operates brifkly, and alfo promotes urine. The freth herb bruifed, with fome white wine; is a ftronger purge, and fometimes works alfo by vomit. An infufion of the whole herb, root and all, juft before it gets into flower, works very power. fully by urine. In either of thefe forms it is excellent dropfi eginni fufion is the beft method of ¢ is more advanced the country« -; and when the difeafe is violent, an titution can bear it, the eo the contrary, the fower of /napdragon has no fpur, and the capfule is irregularly and fingularly conftruéted at the bottom, and opens unequally. amined the ftructure of flowers fo accurately, or underftood their feveral parts fo well. Linaria parva rubefcens: he root is fmall; woody; div {fpreading The ftalks are numerous, right, and very much bra inches high, andofa j The leaves are num larly: they are narrow; long; and of a di green. The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and feparately on other parts of the plant; rifing from the bofoms of the leaves: they are fimall, andofa pale red. The feed-veffel is round; and the feeds ate fmall It is commonin ourcornfie June. Ray calls it Liz guifhing it from the 7 others hadjoined it, from the fhay of the flower and feed-veffel. furnifhed with many fibres. This brings them all into the fame clafs; but there is diftinétion enough between them to keep fpur, 4. Small, red Toadflax, The root is long, flender, hard, whitifh, and them in feparate genera; and this is the more needful to be obferved, becaufe the fpecies of each are Thedifference between toadflax and fnapdragon is\this : the Mower of toadflax has a long and fharp HERBAL, manner we have named, with white v of all. The juice of flammations of ; firmed from his own taken morning and evening Anoint of commor The fe and fo moft of the poflefs the a leffer de ecies have y different on why they fhould be |
