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Show BROS H G HE RB AL. U E HOLLO WLE SARA X. CENA. re of an ov: , and bend inwards: the feedHEflower confifts of five petals, which a veflel is roundifh, and divided into five c ells: the flower has two cups; the lower cupis offive very large and coloured compofed of three {mall oval leaves 5 the upper one is compofed lip furrounding5 leaves, and both fall with the flower: the leaves are hollow, and have a kindof or rifing over the opening. The flower of this genus is not lefs fingular th an the leaf. We owe the right explanationof its the upper cup with thepetals. ftruéture to Linneus, for others have confounded pzynia ; the threads in the flower being numerous, it among the pal That author ple rifing from the receptacle, and theft; from n the rudiment of the fruit fingle. and BRITISH HERBAL. PRIeeeeeeeIaee iee 2. Long-leaved yellow Saracena. Saracena fe The root is compofed of numerous thick fibres. ‘The leaves that rife fromit are large, andof a range and fingular figure: they are oblong, hollow, and fwelled; narrow at the bafe, broader and gibbous upward, and toward tle top they again growfmaller by way of neck : from this part the edge is carried out into a great lip or ear furrounding the opening, whichis very broad. The whole leaf is of a dufky green colour, of a very tough and firm fubftance, and marked with a number of thick, irregular veins. The ftalk rifes up in the midft of the tuft of leaves, and is flender, perfeétly upright, and naked. It fupports on its top a fingle fower, whichis very large andbeautiful : its fhape refembles that ofthe clobe-flower, andits colouris a faint purple. The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are nuin. @ point, merous, roundifh, but terminati andfall. It isa native of America, and grows in wet places. It flowers in July. Authors have called it by a variety of names. The firft knowledge of the plant was from Clufius, The root is compofed of thick, long, andblack fibres, The leaves rife in a tuft, and ftandtolerably erect: they are hollowin the mannerof che othe but they are very long, flender, and reg fhaped: y are fmalleft at the bafe, and thence go up gradually encreafing to the top; fo that they perfe&tly reprefent a long, flender cone verted : at the top they are open, and there r there a roundifh, pointedlip, from a {mall neck: they are of a firm fubftance, and deep green, and they have large ribs running lengthwile. The round part at the top hasalfo fome large veins, which fpread from a principal one in the middle. The ftalk.rifes in the centre of this clufter, and is naked, flender, upright, and of a purplifhcolour at the battom, and a pale yellowith greentoward the top. The flower is very large and yellow: one ftands at the top of the ftalk, and no more; its formis the fame with that of the preceding. The feed-veffel is round and large, and the feeds are very numerous, andof a dark brown. but that was very imperf He neverfaw more It is a native of America, and, like the former, 1 2 leaf of it, and the of atuft of lives in wet places, It flowers in July. the rudiments of a ftalk, but without C. Bauhine calls this Thuris limpidi fo ing relating to the flower. it ftands under the fame name in Lobel and he received. from an apothecary of Plukenet calls it Bucanepbyllum elatius V Paris, who had it from Lifbon, but knew nonum, five Limonio congeneris alter (pecies fol thing more of it: probably it had been brought longioribus. Morifon, Coilophyllum Virg thither from the Brazils. longiorefolio eretio, flore luteo. This Clufius publithed ; and he gueffedthe plant The natives have an opinion of the lea to be a fpecies oflimonium, or of fome genus althefe plants as a fovereign remedy againft lied to it. From Clufius, the figure, defcription, mous bites: they boil them in water, and, when and name of kmonio congener got to the common they are tender, lay them upon the part; but Englifh writers, who called it alfo Aollow-leaved this has no certain authority as to its fu S. Whenwe became firft acquainted with that part , and the ftrange hollow-leaved plant. of the world, there was an opinion that the naSince this time many of the curious have met tives underftood the virtues of their plants ina withit, andthe floweris become known, which we find is notatall lefs fingular than the leaves: but particular manner, and great pains were taken t0 when the entire plant was feen, there was a great obtain the knowledge from them: but the fatthet deal of perplexity where to put it, and by what enquiry was made, the lefs dependance it W4 name to Call it. found could be placed upontheir accounts. They Morifoncalls it Coilophyllur had among them people who hadthe art of imfolio et flore. Plukenet, By | pofing upon the reft, and this fkili in herbs w48 Limonio congener digtun one of the great articles of their pretended know whine namedit at random, Limonium pi n foliis forma flori ledge ; byt it was ufually very little Ariftolochig. The END of th ELE VENTH CLAS §. THE Geokopha 8.58 RU. Plants whofe flower is compofed of six petTa.s, and their feeds contained in @ SINGLE CAPSULE, ee plants which compofe this clafs:are very few; yet they are fo perfectly charaCterifed by the number of petals, that they are feparated by Nature from all others ; and the ftudentwill find great familiarity and eafe in the diftinétion. They are obvioufly known bythis number of their petals ; and he is not fent to look for them among a multiplicity of others, with which fome have confounded them ; butwill find them here alone, and.in their place, allotted plainly by Nature, after thofe which have the fame kind of feed-veffel, and onepetal lefs in the flower. Plainly’as thefe’ genera are chara¢terifed by Nature, and evidently as the dictates where they fhould fland, Linnzus has difperfed them in his works, and placed them among’ thofe to which they are not in theleaft allied. } Wehave but two genera of this clafs natives of Britain, and thefe he has feparated from one another by five intermediate claffes, placing the*/alicaria among his dodecandria, and the portula among his hexandria. aSeeceeeaELeeeee SeSe eeiesteoe oD De SI TSR IeeINae ae OS Sod Hs adn cba Bo oD. Natives of BRITAIN. Thofe of which one or more fpecies,are found naturally wild in this country. Grea SPIKED Ngee Ui 2eo) nf, WILLOWHERB. SA L2G A Role, HE flower confifts of-fix petals regularly difpofed : the feed-veffel is fingle, oblong, and pointed, and the feeds are numerous and {mall : the cup is formed of a fingle piece: it is hollow and ftriated, and is divided into ten fegments at the edge, which.are alternately longer and fhorter. Linnzus places this among the dodecandria monogynia ; the threads in the centre of the flower being twelve, andtheftyle from the rydiment of thefruit fingle. ria, and calls it fthrum. He takes away its received name /alica- |