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Show the’ 118 Bhp) OEE It is a native of Spain andItaly, and flowers <9 in July. C. Bauhine calls it Digitalis major lutea five parvo flore. 2, Great-flowered yellow Foxglove. Digitalis lutea magnoflore. 4 The root is very large, and runs obliquely underthe furface, fending up from various parts clufters of leaves, and numerous ftalks. The leaves that rife from the root are broad, oblong, and of a pale green, anda little dented at the edge. ’ The ftalks are round, ftriated, of a pale colour, firm, upright, and three feet high, The leaves are numerous upon them, and ftand PHY RB AL. genus ; but that is a needlefs diftinétion, Shrubby Fo irregularly, but not fo confufedly as on fome of of the ftalk; and they-ufually hang all one way, as in the commonfoxglove: they are large andyellow, and are of the fhape of thofe of the common kind: their colour is pale on the outfide and deep within, and is fometimes variegated, It isa native of Germany, and flowers in Augutt. C, Bauhine calls it Digitalis lutea magno flore. J-,Bauhine Digitalis lutea. flore. majore folio latiore. 4. Perfoliate Foxglove. Digitalis perfoliata. Vanko.L Tra f, / The rootis large-and irregularly fhaped, and fends out many long and thickfibres. The ftalk is round,’ firm, upright, and two feet and-a’half high, ‘of a pale green, and {carce at all branched. The leaves ftand in pairs, andthe ftalk in a manner runs through them: they are large and long; broadeft at the bafe, and fmaller all the The root {preads under the furface, and fends up fhoots in various places. The ftalks are woody, and covered with a redifh brownbark. The leaves ftand irregularly and in confiderable numbers upon them; and are very beautiful: they have no footftalks, but grow to the main ftalk by a broad, hollow bafe: they are long, narrow, of a bright green, and beautifully indented on the edges: theyare broadefl. toward the middle, and terminate in a fharp point. The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in very long fpikes: they are of a beautiful cold yellow, and have two lips; and the four threads, with the. buttons, very apparent in them, The feed-vellél is large and ovals and the feeds are numerous, finall, and brown. It is a native of the Canaries, and flowers in May. Cliffort calls. it G. ia foliis lanceclatis. fer- edi Jpicato.. BRIT Sie DEVIS TON N gratiola, which is here deferibed, was foundin Gratiola anguftifolia. S01 yiut Scotland, it was not known that any fpecies of The root is long, flender, and white: it {preads under thefurface, and fends up numerous fhoots. The ftalk is round, thick, upright, and eight or ten inches high: it is not at all branched, and is ufually of a redifh colour near the ground, and of a pale greenelf The leaves ftand in pairs: they have no footftalks: they are oblong, ferrated at the edges, and fharp pointed. The flowers ftand fingly on long, flender foot- obferve, that the plants named by Mr. Ray with are of a mixed white and yellow colour. The feed-veffel is large, oval, and pointed ; and the feeds are numerous, fmall, and dufky. It is a native of the north of Scotland, but not common. It grows in places where waters have ftagnated in winter. Itflowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Gratiola centauroides. Others, Gratiola vulgaris. It is but lately we havethe notice of its being a native of Britain; nor have we any other fpecies of it: that whichis called the /maller hedge hyffop, Lelicaria hyffopifolia by C. Bauhine, and by lefs accurate writers gratiole anguftifolia, is properly a {pecies of falicaria, not ofthis plant. There are alfo two other plants called by the name gratiola, which are fpecies of caffida, and will be found under that head. This is fuch a fource of error to the young ftudent, that there cannot be too muchcare in avoiding it: he is to know, that till this proper HEDGE that genus was native of Britain; and, he muft thefe fynonyma of grafiola are neither of them of that kind; nor fo underftood by Mr. Ray, who has placed them feverally in their proper genera, thoughhe has added the different names by which they have been called by other writers, and thefe among them, Hedge hyfop, thoughnot known. before wild in Britain, is very common in France, andis greatly efteemed for its medicinalvirtues. Tt approaches to.the nature of the foxglove in qualities as well as form. Taken in a moderate dofe, it operates very brifkly by ftool; and, in a fomewhat larger, by vomit alfo; and in this manner, for conftitutions that can bear it, car off watery humours and difledges obftru@ting matter in a furprifing manner. The juice is given in dropfies: a ftrong' décoction in the jaundice; and ia flighter’ cafes an infufion. Either way it is bitter, and difagreeable in the higheft degree, to the 'tafte; ‘but its virtues’ are fo well known’ among the French peafants that’ it is called there poor mens ph The root, dried and powdered, is given’ in the feiatica, and with fuccefs.. In fmall dofes’ it is alfo excellent againft worms: its extream bitter tafte deftroys them, and by its purging quality it takes off all that matter from the coats of the inteftines which ufed to harbour and ferve for lodging of them. Commeline, DIVISTON: S canarienfis flore aureo fru- IL FO RETGN Blunt-leaved Hedge Hyffop. WS SP B.C L-E:ss, Nartow-leaved Hedge Hyffop. Gratiolis foliis obtufis. ee cH EH Re B Ajds BRITISH ftalks rifing from the bofoms of the leaves; and Digitalis frutefcens. the other fpecies: they are broad, oblong and without footftalks, The flowers ftand in a kind of fpike at the top Tie way to the point: they are {mooth, perfectly undivided at the edges, andof a bright green, The flowers ftand at the top ofthe ftalk, and onlong footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the upper leaves: theyarelarge, and extreamly beautiful : their colour is a deepviolet purple: they are hollow and long, in the manner ofthe common foxglove ; but they are dividedinto five hort and round fegments at the edge. The feed-veffel is oval, and terminates in a point : the feeds are fmall and brown, It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in July, Morifoncalls it Di; Linnzus calls this Min The root is flender and creeping: it is white, tough, furnifhed with manyfibres, and of a bitter tafte. The ftalk is round, upright, and of a pale green; often redifh toward the ground, asalfo at VII. HY SSOP. GRATIIOLA HEflower confifts of a fingle petal, approac hing to the iated fhape: the tube is angulated: the..edge divided. into four parts: th née upper fegment is broader than the others, and turns j five back ; the others are equal: the cup. is divi deded into fe, e five fegments; and the feed-veffel is i oval, and terminates in a point. Linnztus. places this among his diandria monogyn 25 there being two fertile threads in the flower, and the filament from the rudiment of the feed-veffel being 7 : . 5 fin gle. There is, however,. fome conftraint upon his fyftem in this inftance: the general charaGter of his clafs..of the diandria..is, that. there are: only two ftamin a in the flower, » with the rudiment of the fruit; * but in this pla nt there are really five ftamina in each flow er: three of them have no buttons.on the top: thefe, therefore, he calls fteril, and accounts as nothing. Manyhavebeen puzz] ed to know where to place this plant. We_-fee how Linnaeus difpofes it; he fe parates it many claffes from the reft of the genera here treated of, to:which it evidently belongs ; having a flower confit ing of a fingle petal, and the feeds contained in a fingle.capfule. It is fo nearly all ied:to the foxglove that fome have called it by that name; but erroneoufly,; for, thoughallied, ed, itisa diftin& genus. Its proper place, in an arrangement of the plants to whichit is of kin » Is next to the foxglove, which it moft refembles, the infertions of the leaves. The leaves ftand in pairs, and are oblong, narrow, and of adead green: they are very flightly and irregularly notched at the edges, and obtufe at the Gio DIVISION The flowersare large, The feed-veffels are alfo la and the feeds are {mall and brown. It is a native of manyparts of North America, and flowers from May to Oétober. Gronoyius calls it Gratialo foliis lanceolatis obtufis fubdentat It is very much of the fame tafte with the common kind, and probably poffeffes the fame virtues. The Indians extol it againft poifons, u's IX, CcCoxco MB, PEDICUL ARTS. 74 HE flowerconfifts of a fingle petal, and approaches to the Iabiated kind’: it is formed into a tube, and two lips: the tube is crooked, andthe lips differ from one another greatly: the uppet lip is narrow, comprefied, dented, and galeated ; the lower lip is dividedinto three fegments, of whichthe middle one is the narroweft : the cup is roundith and {welled, and is divided into five feg- ments at the rim: the feed-veffel is roundifh, and pointed at the top. 8 * Stamin Staminaa duo in ‘ flore hermaphrodit hrodi o. = S'P'r CITES: Linnzus |