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Show 128 The femetimes varies are Fromthis rife feveral ftalks together : they — blues thre round, weak, flender, and naked, except at fome little bafe near the ground, where they have c membranes in the ‘place’ of leaves. The whole plant is not more that’ four inches fingle high’ and’ at’ the top of the ftallc ftands‘a flower. * This is large ahd’ yellow, though the colous Th A> “B* RA "TT StH The pur m flowers It is a native of North America, and in April. Ray calls it O7 J a Ce ; 7 Iviseal very: fing BRATESH Purple Clandeftina. HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and approaches to the labiated‘fhape : the whole’ is formed the lower into a tube, and two lips: the tubeis fhort : the upper lip is long’ and undivided’; compreffed’: lip is fhorter, but is alfo ftrait and undivided: thefé {tind gaping open, and’ are both into four’ flight’ feg: the feed-veffel is roundifh, and pointed : the cup is fwoln,. flatted, and divided” . ments-at the edge. Linnzus places this among his didynamia angiofpermia’, the thieads in’each flower being four, of which two are longer, two fhorter,, and the feeds contained in a capfule. This author has taken away its familiar and ufual name andlatum, and calls it'/quamnaria. This is his conduét in his Genera ; but in that later work his Species Plantarum, he has joined it with fome others, under the common name /athraa. Thefe genera approach very near to one another ; but’ the difference is fufficient on which to eftablith their abfolute diftinétion. There is but one known fpecies of anblatum, and that is common to Britain and all-the north of. Europe. Anblatum: The root. is extreamly fingular in form and fubftance: it is thick, white, flefhy, and. of a fealy ftruéture, fpreading a great way, and that in a very. irregular manner, juft under-the furface, one piece growing fideways from another, and a third-fromthat, and fo on in every direction. The ftalks are numerous: they: rife from va rious parts of the root, but only one fromeach head: they. are thick, flefhy, tender, white, or brownith, and fix or feven inches high: the fkin. is, tender, and the internal part. full of a watery juice. They are large, and! of a: faint. purple ;. or whitifh, with’a purple tinge, The feed-veffel is very large; and the feeds‘are Yours II. ART Sed-O, Lin Q) Gaibhod ment, becaufe of this little fingularity of the buttons. Some, Apyllon. dofe, and will have great effeét, It is recommended againft ruptures, ard internal bruifes. PPR ISM eS U,5 iy figure: itcontains many feeds, with a Round Birthwort. lochia rotunda. +S ops large, tuberous, and. of a root is Vv growing irreh many fibres ; various parts of its furface: it is rough on the furface, brown on the outfide, and yellow within ; and is of a bitter andve greeable tafte. they are of a pale green colour, andare two feet long, but not able to fupport themfelves' up- CLANDESTIN4. HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and approaches to the labiated kind: it is formedint tube and'twolips: the tube’ is oblong, andthe lips ftand gaping open, and are of aninf or fwoln. figure : the upper lip is hollow, and has a crooked point’: the lower lip is dividedinto three fmall, blunt fegments, and turns back: the cup is hollow, and divided deeply into-four feements ; ; matter between them, It is commonin the hedges of Spain and Italy, 1 in the fouth of France, C. Bauhine calls it “4 purpura nigro. Others, or ia rotunda. There is'a variety of this | h the flower ofa whitifh purple, inftead of a blackith purple: this has been ‘treated of ‘as iné& {pecies,’ but it is nothing more than a’variation from accident, 2. LongBirth The leaves are placed fingly, and at confiderable diftances, and have no footftalks : they are are ofa heartlarge, and of a deep green: they 58 and the feed-veffel is large, rounded, and terminated bya point. 1. The flalks are numerous, weak, and fquare: Plants of which. there is no fpecies native of Britain. BLN, oN Bako thks WHO ROT: major. Others, Dentaria major, dentaria mathioli, and:anblatum. membranes, ftandingirregularly on the ftalk, in the manner of thofe of broomrape. ot Hi colour, refembles the The flowers foon after and of a deep purple, as is alfy the ftali that appears above ground, T is below, though that is more ufually white. The feed-vefiél is roundifh'andlarge: the feds are minute. z It is found in forefts in’ many many. Mentzelius calls it 0, altius padicante foliis ct floribus numerous and-minute. It-is' found under hedges. and, about the. roots of. trees whete the‘foil is loofe and.crumbly, aad where there is a covering; of dead-leaves. It is not ‘very common, and it is often overlooked. It flowers in April. C. Bauhine calls it Orobaneche radice dentata It is cooling and aftringent. The root, dried and powdered, is to be taken, a dram for a Go, Gy Manyof thefe fhoot'from the main ftem, and grow two or three inches high all the way within the earth, where they perifh ‘without ‘ever coming to the ait the main, or principal ftatk only pierces the furface felf. This is and rifes,°in a croc HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, andis of anirr has a roundifh, folded bafe, the foldings being fix; anda wic part runs out into a very long and undivided tongue : hexangula, the feed-veflél is large and roundifh, andin fomed Linnzus places this among his gyngndria bexan a; the buttons being fix, and growing threads to piltil. It very plainly belongs to the reft of this cl afs; the flower being compofe andit is ove oft form, and followed by a fingle fecd-yeffel; of anirr neus’s method that he feparates it from thofe to whichit 1s. allied, placing it There are properly no leaves, but a kind of ue. ess The root, properly and diftinétly fo called, is only a tuft of black, fhort fibres; but if we comprehend under that name all the part of the plant under ground, it isto be called thick and branched : this part, however, is properly the flalk, not the root of the plant, and is to: be confidered as fuch, from its manner of growing and office, though it take the place of the root; thefe black fibres alone being confidered as part of the root: ® Theftalk is five inches high, thick, and divided into many branches: it is of a whitifh colour, and full of ‘juice, and is covered with a kind of rudiments of leaves: .thefe are fhort, broad, and thin; and they lie in a fcaly form uponthe ftalks. The flowers ftand in: a» fhort feries at-the-top of the ftalk. Toothwort. 129 Linnzus places this among the didyyamia’ angio/permia, the feeds being contained in a capfule, and the flower having four threads, two longer, and two fhorter. This author takes away its former name, andcalls it dathrea.. It has the name clandeftina fr this circumftance, that almoft the whole plant is buried, and grows underground, nothing app ppear~ ing above the furface but a {mall part of theiftallk and the fpilce of flowers. Clandefti oS U GosEeran TOOTH WORT, ANBLATU™M. cH E RP ACE e T bafe, and th where they terminate in an obtufe point. The flowers ftand fingly on long footftalks fing from the bofoms of the leaves: they are reenith colour long and crooked, and are of on the outfide, and ofa blackifh purple within. The feed-vetfel is very large, and of an oval N° 12. 2 but not erect: t that will fupport ( them. i |
