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Show 126 BRETT SinBB Ax. { Hine The feed-veffel is very large and round; and the feeds are fmall. It is a native of North America, and flowers in Auguft. Plamier calls it Linaria paluftris feniculifolio, thofe fromthe root: thefe are beautifully divided, and of a blackifh green. grow toward the tops ofthe The fowers ks, andare large andyellow. Ge Be U oN WATER S XIV. GLUADIOVLE. DORTMANNA. TT IE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and approaches in: fome degree to the galeated kind, but not upper nearly fo muchasthe others in general ofthis clafs : it is formed into a fhort tube fplit in the fmaller5 part, and two irregular lips: the upper lip coniifts of two fegments, whichare narrower and flower is perfectly openthis ahdthe lower one of three; whichare broader and larger; but when the flight formis Iefs obfervable: the feed-veftel is round andlarge; and the cup is divided, into five feoments, The leaves of the plant are hollow and divided within. a Linnzus places this among his /yugenafia polygamia monogamia ; but he does not allow it to be 5 whichhe arranges there under the name of Jobelia. diftin€& genus: he places it among the rapu The fhape of the feed-veflel diftinguithes it from his /odelia, and the ftructure of its leaves from all other plants. None is more properly of a genus feparate fromall others, There is but one knownfpecies of this plant, and that is a native of Britain and other patts of the north of Europe, Water Gladiole. Dortmanna. Le fQwl4 The feed-veffel is large and round; and the feeds are numerous and fmall. It is common in waters on the hills in the The root is a clufter of long, thick fibres, which penetrate deep into the mud at the bottom of thofe waters where it delights to grow. The leaves rife in a tuft twelve or fourteen together: they are long, narrow, and of a pale green, hollow within, and divided, in the manner of a pod of fome of the wallflower kinds, north of England; and flowers in July. into two feparate empty fpaces, by a membrane fingular, that there is reafon enough to keep it as a diftiné genus. Clufius calls it Gladiolus lacuftris Dortmanni, fromthe name of Dortman a German apothecary, from whomhe firft received it: but, as gladiolus that runs lengthwife from the bafe to the point. Theftalk rifes in the midft, and is yellowith and round: it rifes to a great height when the water is deep ; but with us, as it generally grows in fhallow places, its length is about a foot: fometimes it is naked, fometimes there grow on jt a leaf or two like thofe from the root. The flowers ftand at the top, in a kind of loofe fpike; but they hang ontheir footftalks, and generallyfall all on one fide: five orfix is the ufua] number: but theyrarely open together: theyare of a pale purple. G AGE N The BRITISH BRIT LS.B Dii-V lol OeN Orobanche vulgaris. ¢ This is a fingular and ftrange plants having peither the colour of the generality of plants, nor any thing that can properly be called leaves. The root is thick, roundifh, and compofed of a multitude offcales, of a tough fubitance and yellowifh colour, laid irregularly over one another. The ftalix is fingle, thick, upright, undivided, and a foot and half high : its colouris yellowifh, andits fubftance light and tender. At diftances, from. the bottom to the top, there ftand certain little membranes of a yellowifh brown alfo: thefe are fhort, and of an irregular figure, and are all it has by way of leaves. The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalk, and, for a great way down it, at diftances one from another; and each has one of thefe little membranes, under it. They are ! gape very wide open : their colour is,.in part lowifh, and in part. a dead faded purple ; andtheir threads are white, ve black buttons, which are as confpiy thing in the flower, d veffel is oblong, and large at the the feeds are very minute. is commonin barren paftures, and fometimes is foundin cornfields, but if the feed-veffel had been as like that of It grows no where fo plentifully as among fields of broom on barren heathy hills ; in thefe fo perfectly unlike, and its leaves are fo extreamly : places it ufually grows to the root of the broom, and thence ‘obtained its Englifh name of droomrape » but they err who fuppofe it will not grow elfewhere. It flowers in July. >. Bauhine calls it Orobanche major garyophyl; ine, Orobanche flore majore. O- O The herb muft be frefh gathered for this purpofe, and the whole cut into thin flices, and haying water poured on it: this, with a little white wine and fyrup of marfhmallows, operates pow- erfully by urine, and is good in jaundices and obftructions of the fpleen. A conferve of it is alfo recommended by fome againft hypocondriac complaints: and an ointment made of it with lard againft fchirrous tu- mours. 2. Branched Broomrape. Orobanche ramofa. 2 ve The root is thick, large, and tuberous ; it is compofed of numerous irregular fcales, in the manner ofthe other; and there’are feveral fibres growto it. The ftalk is firm, erect, dnd very much branched: it’ is of a redifh colour, much flenderer than that of common broomrape, and of a firmer fubftance,and grows fixoreight inches high. The branches rife from it on all fides from the bottomneatly to the top. There are no leaves but a few membranes, which are of a pale yellowifh, and fometimes of a pufplifh colour; and grow irregularly on the ftalk and branches. The flowers ftand in fpikes at the tops of the ftalks, thickly compacted together; and they are of a pale red, large, and confpicuous. The feed-vefiel is oval, and the feeds are very miunute. This is found in cornfields in the fouthern counties of England, but is not common. calls it Orod, g J. Bau- is the name of a diftinct genus, it is better to call it, as Rudbeck does, dortmanna. C. Bauhine calls it Leucoium paluftre flore fubceruleo. Others, Gladiolus paluftris. There is nothing knownof the virtues of this or of the preceding plant: they are food for ducks andother water-fowl. .1U% 35 times has alightly aromatick fmell, but frequently nothing ofthis is to be ob: it depends in a great meafure on the place yth and particular condition ofthe plant. DiV,Lsi on i. XV, BAN CH SE. ‘HE flower is made of a fingle petal, and approaches to the labiated form: it confifts of a tube and two lips: the tube’ is crooked, thick, and fhort: the upper lip is broad, hollow, and indented; andthe lowerlip is divided into three unequal fegments, and turns back: the cup is divided lightly into four fegments; and the feed-veffel is of an oval figure, but fomewhat oblong, and pointed at the end. Linnzus places this among the didynamia angiofpermia ; there being four threads in the flower, of which two are longer and two fhorter, and the feeds being contained in a capfule, dinary, s are alfo remarkably larger, srtion to the bignefs of the whole. ftrageling fibres: th 10b is compofedoffcales, ia the ier of ours, but it is not fo large. m, upright, a yard high, and ; and the whole plant is of a d for leaves are only a kind of {mall fticking clofe to the ftalk ; there are ithe bottom, fewer toward all of the fame colour with andin this con- dition has been defcribed by fome as a diftinét {pecies ; but it is no more than avariety owing to accident in the growth. FO Rib EGUN. BROOMRAPE. OR S$ PEC YE. s: It is good againft obftruétions, and is belt given in a ftrong infufion. 1. Common Broomrape. Ray led Linnzeus into the calling this a fpecies of rapuntium; for he fays its fower makes. it fuch, though the feed-veffel fhews a difference : rapuntium as the flower, ftill the whole plant is HERBAL, See CG Ib. 8. The flowers ftand. at the top, in a thiek, fhort fpike, or a large tuft; and they are Jong, and of a deep purple; and are obvioufly diftinguifhed bythe buttons of the threads, which ftand out from the mouth of thé flower. The feed-veffel is large and oblong and the feeds are very minute. It is frequent in woods in the fouth of France; and flowers in April. C. Bauhine calls it Orobanche flore majore. J. Bauhine, Orobanche magna purpurea mon/pef- . Single-flowered Broomraze. Orobanche flore folitario. ot is a {mall knot of a fcaly ftructure, wife a few fibres. From |