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Show 14.6 Th BRITISH x, Common great Celandine. Chelidonium majus vulgare. The root is long, thick, and full of a yellow juice; it is frequently divided, and ufually. has many large fibres. ‘The firft leaves arife in a numerous tuft: they are large, and beautifully pinnated : each is compofed of three or four pairs of fmaller leaves, placed on rib, with an odd one at the end. The ftalk is round, weak, branched, and two feet high. Theleaves on it refemble thofe from the root, and are of a pale green, The flowers are fmall, and of a gold yellow: they grow feveral together on the tops of the ftalks } each having its ownfeparate tender footftalk. The feed-veffels are long flender pods, containing numerous feeds. The whole plant is full of a deep yellow juice. Tt is common in wafte places, and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Chelidonium majus vulgare and the fame name is given it by moft others. Whatis called /mall celandine is a very different plant, deferibed in the firft clafs of this work under its more proper name pilewgrt. 2. Jagged Celandine. Chelidonium foliis laciniatis, PPLE 00111} The root is long and thick, brown onthe furface and yellow within, and full of a yellow juice. The firft leaves are very large: they have long footftalks, and fpread into abroad, as well as high tuft: each is compofed of about two pairs of fmaller, placed on their feparate footftalks, on a rib which has an odd one at the end. The ftalk is round, weak, hairy, and of a een: it is but moderately erect, and little ves ftandirregularly on it, and_re- femble thofe from the root ; but there are ufually Se US) HERBAL, a pair of fimall leaves, at the bafe of each larger, which feems compleat without them: the pinnas, or fmall leaves, compofing the largerin this {pecies, are very deeply and fharply divided, and hairy. The flowers ‘are -fmall and yellow : the feed. veffels are long andthick ; and the feeds are numerous. It is common in feveral parts of England on banks, and flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls it Ch quernis. J, Bauhine, more properly, Chelic majus folio laciniato ; for the leaves of the common kind more refemble thofe of the oak than thefe. It has been confidered by many, and by Mr, Ray among the reft, as no more, than a ofthe laft fpecies ; but it is effentially dif not only the leaves vary, but the flowers fmaller, and the pods are larger. This and the other both poffefs the f tues, but the other, or common t the greater degree. It is an excellent medicine againft obftruc: tions of the vifcera. It operates both by. ftool and urine; and is good ‘in the jaundice, an obftructions of the fpleen:. the root b with fugar into a conferve is the beft way of giving it for this purpofe. It is alfo a cordial and fuadorifick: for this ufe an infufion is beft. The root fhould be cut into flices, and boiling water poured on it; and this fhould be drank warm in bed: it promotes perfpiration, and throws out any thing to the fkin: The juice*is famous -in ‘cbftrutions of the liver. The juice, ufed both outwardly and inwardly, is alfo ftrongly recommendedin diforders of the eyes. The root; dried and. powdered, is a balfamick and fubaftringent: itis. given. again{t. bloody fluxes, and in other hemorrhages: half a dram for a dofe. U.S Thee ————_—_. iV. WILLOWHERB. EPILOBIU™M. HE. flowerpiis compofed of four broad petals, with a tuft of threads in the centre: the cup is formed of four oblong, coloured leaves, and falls with the fower: the feed-veffel is very long andflender, rounded anddivided within into four cells; and the feeds are hung with a.fine: downy matter. : lacec + ‘, Linnzus places this amongc th the offandria monogy, aia; the threads in each flower being eight, and the ftyle from the rudiment ofthe fruit fingle. ‘d The name by ee this genus is commonly diftinguifhed in Latin is hfimackia ; but that having oi 7 : . . s en givento feveral other genera, as the loofeftrife and falicaria, cannot be. retained for this without confufion. That name was originally given to the yellow willowherb or loofefrife, a genus altogether diftin& from this, and defcribed in a precedi ng clafs: I have therefore appropriated it to that genvs; and for this adopted the name epilobium, given by Linnzus, and in) ufe among. moft of the modern writers, for the fame diftin & affortment of plants, DIVI- BR EF Fil SH DAL-V-1 S-LV/ON B RY TF She's PEC ies i. Rofebay Willowherb. Epilobium floribus fpeciofis. FZ This is the moft confpicuous andbeautiful of all the. willowberbs, and is one of ‘the fineft of our wild plants. The root is large, and {preading. The firft leaves rife in a thick tuft; and are long,. narrow, and:ofa beautiful deep green on the upper fide, and of a filvery grey underneath* they have no footftalks : they are perfeétly even at the edges, and terminate in:a fharp. point. In the céentre.of thefe rifes:the ftalk, whichis round, thick, firm, upright;:andfive feet high. The leaves ftand irregularly; but very beautifully upon it: they are long, narrow, and even at the edges: they have no. foorftalks; and they are alfo of a deep green on the upperfide, and a filvery white below. The flowersare large andbeautiful: they ftand in a long fpikes and-are of-a fine deep red. Thefeed-veffels are long, and the feeds winged with down. It is commonin many parts of England and flowers in June. Near Canewood at Hatnpftead there is a hedge:decorated with it for fixty yards together. C. Bauhiné calls.it Ly/imachia ckhamienerion difta latifolia, Others, Lyfimachiafpeciofa, and Onagra peciofa. 2, Broad-leaved, hairy Willowherb: Epilodiumlatifoliabirfutum. conneéted sot is compofed, of, numerous: fibres, to a Jarge head, The firft leaves are lo and moderately broad, indented at the edges, lightly hairy, and of a pale green: they have»no footftalks, and rife in a large tuft. The ftalks are numerous, round, redifh, and four feet high. They are thick fet with leaves, which are, like thofe from the root, of: a-pale greyifh green, foft to the touch, oblong, broad, andindented ; they ftandirregularly, and adhere to theftalk at theirbafe. The flowers are large, and of a pale red’: they growa few together at the tops.of the ftalks. The pods are long, and full. of fmail feeds, with a filvery down among them. It is commonby, waters, and. flowers in June. The tops of this plant have .a light fragrancy. The fcent has been fuppofed to, refemble that of apples in milk, and the plant is thence called by our common people cod: ‘S$ Gi vo ERB Ast. C) C. Bauhine calls it magno flore. Others, L and yellow. It is commonin dampplaces; and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Ly Siliquofa parvo flore. 4. Great, fmooth Willowherb. Epilobium glabrum majus. The root confifts of a vaft quantity of larg and thick fibres {preading every way. The firft leaves are broad, fhoft, indented, and fharp-pointed, and of a dead green. Theftalk is firm, upright, very much branched, and four feet high. The leaves ftand irt ly on it, andare very numerous: they have fhort footftalks; and aré broad, “oblong, and’ fharply ferrated 5: fmooth, andof a deep green. The flowers ftand‘in«confiderable numbersat the tops of the branches; and, though the plantiis fo large, they are-very {mall :; their colour is a brightired, ‘arid they ‘have long, flender footftalks. The feed-veffels are long; and the feeds {mall. Ivis‘commor in damp pattures, arid flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Lyfimachia filiquofa glabra major. Others, Ly/machia cam; 5. Narrow-leaved, fmooth Willowherb. Epilobium a The root is long, fler runs to a great diftance under the furface, andis furnifhed with many fibres. The ftalks are numerous, round, firm, upright, two foot and ahalf high, and confiderably branched. The leaves are very humerous: they ftand fo thick that’ they frequently coverthe ftalk for the greateft part of its length: they are long, narrow, {mooth, of a deep green, and’ not at all indented ; but they terminate in a fharp point. The flowers are placed at the tops of the branches, and are large, and of a beautiful bright red. The feed-veffel is lo andthe feéds are fur+ rounded with a great quantity of down, . Small-flowered, hairy Willowherb, Epi The root is compofed of which run numerous la I “he firft leaves are oblong, of and blunt at the ends. The ftalk is round, ereét, robuft, confiderably branched, and twofeet or more in height. ; The leaves are long, and moderately broad ; of a dead green, hairy, not at all indented, and they are fixed to the ftalk by their bale. The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in gteat numbers, and are {mall, and of a pale; ut lively red. The feed-veffels are long, and the feeds fmall head, from dead green, It is frequent in damp meadows, under hedges, and bythe fides of brooks. It flowers in JulyC. Bauhine calls it Ly/imachia glabro minor. |