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Show The BRUIT SH: HER BeA L. The yhich run uponthe ground, andfend ingftall up othe r clufters of leaves in different places, Theleaves'are fmall, round, and dented at the edges ; and they are ofa pale green, The flowers are very fmall; they ftand fingly on tenderfootttalks rifing from the bofoms of the leaves ; and theyare of a pale Aefhycolour. fel is very fmall, and the feeds are minute a It is not uncommon on the fides of hills in our weftern counties, but is fo fmall that it is eafily overlooked. It flowers in Jaly. The flowers ftand at the tops of the fftalks, and ‘are very fall, and white: they fcarce ever : a fmall, and opens in three ns three feeds. water isjuft dried t {pe cies. up under the furface, and fends out tufts of fibres in different places. ves rife in clufters three or four togeand they ftand fiingly 0on : m the fame eep- Ceratti ; The root is a tuft of flender fibres. ‘ The leaves that 2 jf diately from it are d: they growin fhort and obtufely + broad, ey e a ae tuft, and are of a pale In the centr his tuf ti Gin : ! : The com vi 1 has tho credit of being cooling and diuretick ; but little notice is caleed of it. Outwardly it is cooling, but neither way demands muchnotice. ‘ c and : late In a point. I The flowers ate numerous and fmall: they aa id ftand on fhort, flender footftalks d-veffel is round < arge; and the seds ‘are finall, rous and bre Ic’is frequent on the mountains in Germany; t 1 t i SP EB -C.IE S; f r imesis eens ieee at I and minute. walls and dry banks ; an ep it has ftood fome w nched ; but it is altolittl on iftingt m the flowers ftand on fhorter compofed of 1 root root iiss compofed o numero! merous heftalks are round, firm, erect, a foot ani half high, and of a pale green; andthey are not at all branched. The leaves ftand in pairs without footftalks: at all cla never is a, aaa The leaves alf them: >. Bauhir rapist , Al Men’zelius calls it Aine maxima folanifolia. US ABE : ompofed ; : : AR CHICK Ww EE ata aes LU wer is Com ked obt crooked, tule, leaves). and‘re vifines nNzUs |fplaces ftyles from the r We are unluck s when the this anwheMg ranized bed n Slane a . ; Woolly: Ceraftium Ceraftiuim tomentofum. elaine it ve : “it ata fi a whitifh colo ir, and fome of of eared right t heig f eight hes, upon t ' : 3 are very largé, and of a fnow white: they are compofed each of five petals, dented at ‘the ya a8 ia 29 ends. ne feed-veffel. is long, thick, and crooked, and dented at the top; andthe feeds are fmall, numerous, and angular. in AugU : ents C. Bauhine calls it Caryophyllus bolofteus alpinus It is a very fingular and beautiful laut plant. he flow : flowers grow on long, flender footitalks, and : Iquis a rene our northern counties, and X cy E : they are generally fomewhat clan o the vouch. The leaves ftand in pairs nall diftances ; apa. they g are broad, fhort, ys and of a:dufky Vi. {talks are numerous, round, hairy, of a n, and five or fix jae: in length $ f them ftand ereét, and part are procum- fic : bres. « x S €- a craltium, ved Ceraftiut i ett on fhort p MOUSE pO OEE E t rs PATV0 fore. Z ; ceatita, Sor ae lendee, and runs udder the root is flender, and runs under the fur The leaves grow in pairs, without and are placed at confiderable diftances: ‘they are fhort, obtufe, and of a pale green, moderately hairy, and of afirmfubftance. § he others : ONufually ata» int Ir e larger kinds. footftalks, and the plant they are very large, and broadeft at the bate, where they meet in fo clofe a mannerthatthe ftalk appears to grow through them: they ar fharply ferratedatthe edges,andpoin -d attheends. The flowers grow at the tops of the ftalks, andare large, and fnow white; they confift each of five petals divided pretty deeply at the tips. The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are numerous, rounded, and flatted. It is common among rocks in Italy; and flowers in Augutt. U 1¢ a tops of the fta , hite, and compofed each of five they ee i. erratis erratis. aie, Sometimes this {pecies is a ftalks and leaves. fhort: they at Chickweed with ferrated leaves | , 1 : Voided1 y pa uivierous. <I : . The sftalks are lender, upright and toward he tops divided into feveral branches. he leaves are fmall, oblong, narrow, le green: they. are broadeft toward Tt is common in our paftures, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Aine } M Merret, ftalk a s the ind icethe h TYhe root .is f andiaenielon SPECIES, The feed-veffel is long, flender, and l| ightly dentated at the end. The feeds are numerous, minute, and brown. ? Thefe fpecies of Chickweedare all fuppofed to : —_ with the commonkind; fs“ the fame qualities u they have not : been much regarded. ROE I GN. 7 iN. H-E'R BA LE. BRITISH DAIVIS TON" | it creeps Dry 191 ON *BUR’I T'l SSH ee hits re occa <3 od 4 are plac c nf a rs, hey are al nefs tothe touch, and ath shes them of rife up but moft lie ects 8 obtule : they of a woolly foft- whitecolour. lit they ftand ote white: lar The flowers are pedicles rifing from the tops of on fhort ie ehh ; i Is, nip’d at the ends, andr eelarly difpofed : the feed-veffe and. dented into five parts atthe end: the cup is compofed off five thewhet 2 tevin. th : togynia the threads in the flower being ten, andth th fingle name forthis genus: wecall it horned chick d. fr ar chic RW ed, from the form and hairynefs of the | being, all compound terms, it is better to ufe the Latin exception at the bottom of his character of vhich overthrows the charaéter of the greater arrangement oftheclafs : have onlyfive ftamina. ans epee is plant, which has onlyfive threads, is a proper of the plants of that name have ter but this e circum lifhes claffés ; for the g¢ reat and ten threads, tains, and Jt flowers in Ye phyllus bJ 1B eee cand white virtues of any of n fpecies wor following, tt |