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Show The H BRETIS HERBAL. The | Theleaves ftand in pairs, and have long foot‘The leaves ftand ufually in pairs, but fomeftalks: they are large, and of a fhinin times three rife from the fame point. broad at the bafe, narrower to the point, and They are of a heart-fafhionedfhape, fhort and indented fharply all the way on the edg broad, and dented round the edges. | The flowers are placedall the way up the ftalk The flowers ftand feveral together on fhort and branches, and have long footftalks ; each of ; foorftalks rifing from the bofoms of the leaves which {plits toward the top, and holds two andthey are {mall and yellow. flowers: they are large, and of abright red. The feed-veffel is large and roundith ; andthe The feed-veffel is large, roundifh, and pointfeeds are numerous and {mall ed; and the feeds are numerous and{mall. It is a native of Italy, and flowers in June. It is a native of Italy, and flowers in May. C. Bauhine calls ic Scropbularia flore lut 0. C. Bauhine calls it Scrophularia urtice fe Clufius makes it akind of deadnettle: he calls it and moft others have followed him. Lamium pannonicum fecundi 5. Pinnated Figwort. 2. Jagged yellow Figwort. Scrophulari Scrophularia folits pinnatis: a laciniata. / The root is long, thick, oblique, and furnifhed with numerous fibres, The leaves thatrife firft from it are verylarge, and deeply divided: they ftand on long footftalks, andare of a beautiful green. The ftalk is firm, erect, brown, and twofeet and a half high. Theleaves ftand in pairs, and are large, and deeply ferrated: they have frequently two appendages or fimall leaves growing on their footftalk near the bafe, in the mannerof thofe of the common water figwort. Thofe towardthe bottomof the ftalk approach more to the divifions of thofe from the root; and thofe near the top are longer and narrower, and very deeply and fharply jagged. The flowers are large and yellow, andftand feveral together on footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the leaves. The feed-veffels are large and roundifh; and the feeds are numerous and fmall. It is a native of Spain and Por > and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Scrophularia foliis laciniatis. Others, Scrophularia fambuci folio flore magno. 4. Nettle-leaved Figwort. Scrophularia urtice folio, The root is long and thick, and has many large fibres. The ftalk is fquare, firm, and lightly hairy, very much branched, and two feet high. Theroot is long, thick, and hung with large fibres. The leaves thatrife firft from it are long, narrow, and deeply divided at the edges, the cuts going almoft to the middle rib: they have no footftalks, and are of a fhining, deep The ftalks are numerous, firm, vu of adeep brown : theyarefcarceat all branch and are a foot and half high. The leaves ftand on themin pairs, and are deeply divided; fo that they appear pinna each feems compofedof about three pair of nz, with an odd one at the end, and th deeply jagged. The flowers ftand on the tops of the ftalks, and are very numerous, fmall, and of a dark purple colour. The feed-veffels are large, roundifh, and pointed ; and the feeds are fmall and brown. It a native of Italy and Germany ; and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Scrophu i difia. The common writers call it Ruta caniua, and Dogs rue. : All thefe fpecies of figwort have the fame kind of tafte, and moft of them the fame {mell with our common wild kind; and they arecele brated for the fame virtues, They are accounted great medicines againft fcorbutick and other foul nefles; and pultices of their leaves are made the piles. The commonwild kind of our wo feems to have ; more virtue than any of th though natives of warmer climates. E-N Lai 8 VIL FOX LOVE, DI Gir Tf Pay g. Jie flower confifts of a fingle petal, which is long and hol! owlike the finger of a clove, is divided into four fegments at the edge, rem1otely approaching to the labiated form upperlip is broad and di ed, and the under one larger : th € cup aap re is divided into five feoments; E E and the feed-veffe] is large, of; an oval form, & and pointed at th é top. Linnzus places this among his didynamia angiofp 7a; the threads in each flower being four, two of which are longer and two fhorter. » and the feeds contained in a capfule. This diftin&tion of that celebrated author com prifes fo many of i the plants properly of our af, that it fhews hownature is fimilar, eve: nin clafs, thé fmalleft pats, in plants allied to one anothe this is all that fhould have been inferred from the curious and Juft obfervation of that writer, of threads in each flower being four, and twoof th hem longer and two fhorter : when he carri ed thi vation into a larger ufe, and madeit the foun dation of a clafs, it failed him, and mifled his readers 4 We H HERBAL, 117 that in bringing it to ferve that purpofe, the clafs formed upon it comprehends the verticife together ; and as it in that joins genera the moft diftinét, fo it in other cafes nd others, which are naturally allied to the reft, and here brought together. debted in the higheft degree to that moft eminent writer for his obfervations ; and they thould be always remembered, though ufed in a more limited degree. vet ) OLN. BOR UT PSS. PB Cas, dofe, a very brifk purge: often it works both Common, Foxglove. Digitalis purpurea. S722 vel The root is compofed of a multitude of thick and. tougt ores; Of a pale green colour, and bitter tafte. The firft leaves are very large, oblong, nar“row, of a whitifh colour, and flightly indented at thee s in the centre of thefe, and is lick, firm, upright, whitifh, or greyifh, r feet high. e leaves on it are numerous, andftandirrey: they are long, narrow, large, of a whitr id indented flightly on the edges. fowers growin a kindof fpike on the top nd-they ufually hang all on one ways, and fometimes with a very hurtful violence; but this is owing to ill management: many excellent medicines, as they are found tobe, inthe hands of fkilful perfons, would fall under this cenfure if given in the fame random manner. The people in the weft of England ufe it moft. They boil a handful of the leaves, or three or four of the clufters of roots, in ale, and give it according to the patient’s ftrength. They cure quartan agues, and many other obftinate complaints withit. We have alfo accountsof epileptickfits of long continuance being cured by it; but the operation in this way is too rough for any but thofe who are very hardy. >, and of a beautiful red, It would be right to try the root, dryed and pots of white and fome little touches F black, and with yellow buttons on the four powdered, in a moderate dofe, for it is very improper that a medicine of fo much power fhould be difregarded at home, while we fend to the re- rge and oval; and thefeeds dus and f{mall. emmonin’barren paftures and on dry nd flowers‘in Auguft. Bauhine ‘calls it L mote(t parts of the earth for others of the fame qualities. An ointment made of the leaves is recommended for cutaneous foulnefles, and in many places they make an ointment alfo of the flowers in May butter, which is greatly recommended in ftrumous cafes. It is a plant poffefled of very confiderable virtues ; but they are more known among the country people than in the fhops It is a powerful emetick, and, in a fmaller DiTEVAl's PON; I. TheItalians are fo fond of it on thefe occafions that they have a proverb, which fay, foxglove cures all wounds. Many plants oflefs virtue are more celebrated ; and there is none deferves better a fairtrial. FO REFGN, SPECIES. It flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls it Digitalis anguftifolia floreferrugineo. Others, Digitalis ferruginea. 1. Ferrugineous Foxglove, ferrugineo. 2. Yellow Foxglove. iey have >of a pale gree f 1 If k is round, robuft, upright, and four 1 G BRET IS . e numerous, andplaced ire long, narrow, without footid verylightly haity. mly numerous: they ops of the ftalks and e of the com hat they have a very lon ° and the feeds are ft. We received the , but it is cor Digitalis flore minore. The root is very long and thick, and has a vaft quantity of fibres. The firft leaves rife in a great clufter, and are long and broad ; of a bright green on the upper fide, but paler anda little inclined to hairynefs below: they have no’ footftalks, and they are narrow toward the bafe, and broadeft near the end. regularly: they are long, and not very broad, and they have no footftalks. The flowers ftand in a long fpike on the top of talk, and are of a pale greenifh yellow. The feed-veffel is large, roundifh, and pointed at the top. Hh de eeerete er 116 |