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Show Ther 194 hangs in Jong fine threads, and then bleachedto a whitenefs. ‘The virtues in medicine are very confiderable : for this purpofe the feeds alone are ufed. They are emollient and diuretick. A,tea, made by pouring boiling water upon them unbruifed, is pleafant, and is of excellent fervice in diforders of the breaft and-lungs. It alfo allays heat of urine, and brings away gravel. Outwardly it makes an excellent emollient foin many of the mentation; and is an ingredient remedies, in our ointments, and other external difpenfatories. The oil, drawn from the bruifed feeds without heat, is excellent in diforders of the lungs, and in pleurifies and peripneumo: i Externally it is alfo an anodyne and refolvent indeed, fuperior to almoft any in a gteat d other oily m 2. Great-flowered perennial Flax. Linumperenne flore majore. Mi. 201.15 very different from the This is a wild Fl common manured kind ; being a hardy, perennial, and deep rooted The root is long, thick, woody, and hung with many fibres. The ftalks are numerous, round, upright, hard, and a foot and half high: they are brown and brittle; and are feldomat all branched. The leaves are oblong, narrow, fharp-pointed, and of a pale green: they.are very numerous, andare placed irregularly on the ftalks. The flowers grow in a thick tuft at the tops of the branches: they are large, and of a beautiful blue. The feed-veffel is very large, and the feeds alfo large. It is frequent on the borders of fields in many parts of England, and flowers in Jul Raycalls it Linum fylveftre ceruleum perenne ercéfius flore et capitulo majore. The flower is fometimes white. vbent Flax with fmall flowers. m procumbens flore minore. The root is long, thick, and brown: it is furnifhed with manyfibres, and endures from yearto year. The ftalks are numerous, round, flender, and weak : they lie in part upon the ground, and in part rifevup, The leaves are long, narrow, andof a bluifh gteen; and they ftandirregularly, and in great numbers, onthe ftalks. The flowers ftand on the tops, and onflender foot{talks. rifing from the bofoms of the upper leaves: they are {maller than thofe of the common Jiax, but of the fame celeftial blue. The feed-veffels are fmall, hard, brown, and fharp-pointed ; and the feeds are brown. <BuR a Ty 1S HW BE Reb Ags. It is found in barren places in our foutherg Del Veal ST OFNe counties ; and flowersin July. FOREIGN eal. SEC 1 ES: Ray calls loreet capi 1. Great hairy Flax. Linum ceruleumhirfutum. ium flore purg Theroot is long, flender, and furnithed with many fibres. Theftalks are numerous, round, flender, and of a pale y are very upright, and full of leaves, placed ith perfect irr gularity from the bottomto the top. Thefe are long, narrow, and fharp-pointed : they have no footftalks, and are of a pale green The flowers are large, and very beautiful: they ftand: at the tops of the ftalks, and. their colouris a pale purple. The feed veffel is {mall, and the feeds are oval, and of a pale brown. It is found in manyparts of England near the fea-coaft; and flowersin June. The flowers vary extremely, in their tinge of purple: fometimes they are deeper; fometimes paler; and fometimes nearly white: the colouris fometimes diffufed all over them; and in others it is only laid on in lines, or ftreaks, towardthe The root is fmall, oblong, divided, and furnifhed with a fewfibres. The ftalks are numerous and firm: they are three feet high, round, hard, brdwn, not much a as in the branched; yet, not altogetherfo fingle common flax. The leaves are oblong, confiderably broad, of a pale green colour, and hairy They are placedirregularly on theftalks, and cloath thempretty thick all the way up. The flowers grow all the way up the upper branches, and the tops ofthe ftalks: they are very large, and ofa beautiful blue. The feed-veffel is large and pointed; and the feeds are oval and of a pale brown. It is common in Germany, and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Zi birfutum cerul 2. Small yellow Flax. Linum parvum flore luteo. bottom of the petals, which growfainter, and die off as they come nearerthe tips C. Bauhine calls it Linum fy re anguftifolium Hloribus dilute purpurafcentibus five carneis. 5. Mountain Flax. Linumfoliis drevibus. hel This is a fingular plant; very unlike the other fpecies of flax, but properly andtruly one of the kind. The root is long, flender, white, and hung with many fibres. The ftalks are numerous, round, firm, upright, and ten inches high: they have no branches till toward the top, where theydivide, by twos, into a large, fpreading head. Theleaves are fhort and fmall: they are of 4 dufky green, and of a firm fubftanee. “he flowers are fmall and white; and the feed-veflels are large, and full of ovalfeeds. It is common on dry paftures, and flowe July. C. Bauhine calls i 2 pratenfe flofeuls exiguis, Others, Linum catharticum. Our common people call it Purging flax, Mountain flax. and Mill mountain. It is a great medicine with the country people for manydiforders, the rheumatifm, dropfies, an¢ other complaints arifing from obftr They give it boiled in ale. A {mall handful, boiled in 2 pint of that liquor, is a dofe for 4 {trong man. It always operates violently by ftool, and not unfrequently alfo by vomit. he Ca Larnt The root is long, flender,’ and ‘edged with fibres. The ftalks are numerous, flender, and fix or eight inches high: they frequently divide into twofromthe bafé ; but they are rarely branched upwards. The leaves are fmall, oblong, narrow, and fharp pointed: they are placed irregularly on the ftalks, and are perfectly fmooth, and of a pale green. The flowers are {mall, and of a gold yellow: they grow at the tops of the ftalks, and on flen- derfootftalks rifing from the bofoms of the upper leaves, Thefe generally {plit into twoat the extremity: The feed-veflé] is fmall and pointed. The feeds are oval and brown. This is the fpecies which has only three ftyles in the flower ; whereas Linnzus’s character gives all the flaxesfive. It is a native of the fouth of France, an flowers in June C. Bauhine calls it luteo. 3. Broad-leavedyellow Fl Linum latifclium luteuma The root is fmall, oblong, divided into feveral parts, and furnifhed with many long fibres. The ftalk is round, firm, and upright, but Jointed, and ufually bowed from joint to joint. The leaves are fhort and broad: they have no footftalks, but are fmall at the bafe, adeft in the middle, and pointed at the ends; and they are placed irregularly on the ftalks. The flowers are moderately large, and of a pale yellow: they growclofe to the ftalks at its feveral joints, or at the infertions of the upper leaves. The feed-veftel is large, roundifh, and pointed; andthefeeds are brown. It is commoninItaly, and flowers in Augutt. C. Bavhine calls it Linum bh ad fingula genicula floridum. The virtues of thefe plants not certainly known but the tafte of their feeds feems to fhew they have all thé fame qualities with the common flax. Uses ANESBILL GERANIUM. is FUNHEflower confitts of five petals. The feed-veffel, is long and flender: it is very fingular} it A properly a cruft which envelops the fevera 1 feeds, and which has a top extended along tl from t he bafe ftyle. As its formis fingular, fo is its manner of opening; forit fplits in feveral parts to the extremity of the ftyle. The feeds are kidney-fhaped. The cup is compofedof five leaves, and* 1en the flower is fallen. ; the threads in the flower growing together Es ces this among the mona i in one body, andbeing diftinétly ten in number. cial, for this This is one of thofe claffes of that author which we call, with rea 1s in a flower is not certain enough to becom tl n of the Nor appears to have been regarded by nature fo ftrictly as thot ) ° n which a natural method is to be founded. p lain terms, in relation to the preLinnzus is obliged to acknowledge this, even in the moft rally allied, by placing it m_all thofeother ¢ genera to W fpecies becaufeits ftamina ¢ rowinto one Ibody, he owns that in fome of the I ftamina u e into two bodies. oweris plainly of the diadelphia clafs; tk iat is, the ‘ ; the I la | nts whofe threads unite into one bedy make the fixteenth clafs This divides the genus again: theretwo bodies s’s method ; and thofe whofe threads unite into Lin ut of their natural place Js being t |