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Show 220 The. BR ER FIITS at the tops of the ftalks, and at the extremities ofthe divifions of the branches. The feed-veffel is large, oblong, and thick; and the feeds are latge-and'roundith. It isa native of the Eaft, andis there frequent in the’ corn-fields and other cultivated grounds. Ic flowers in September. C.Bauhine calls it Leontopetalo affinis foliis quernis. G oF oN H (EE RB Acti — Tournefort, Leontopetalon nafcentibus. Others, Chry fimply Cbry/ogonum. The root. of the firft kind is ufed to take fpots out of woollen cloths; and it is faid to have fome: éfficacy in’ medicine’ as a diuretick, The other is not ufed. WY waits HERBAL. BR: de: To 5-H CASSe Se SHAE AH ae Sh Se Re Il. ae Biee NHaS MEDEOLA. and HE flower is compofed of fix petals, which turn back: the feed-veffel is large, roundifh, Geox is no cup. divided into three cells, each of whichisa fingle large feed : there being fix, and the Linnzusplaces this among the bexandria trigynia ; the threads in the flower ftyles from the rudiment of the fruit three. ftalks, fix or more at a joint, except at the top, Greenifh-flowered Medeola. Kaa where there grow twoor three irregularly. The flowersare fmall and greenifh: they grow The root is large, thick, and has many bres. fingly on flender footftalks at the top of the main Thefirft leaves are large, long, and undivided : ftalk, and their petals all turn back: as thefe are green and fmall, fome have called them a cup, Medeola floribus virefcentibus. they have no footftalks: they are broadeft in the middle, and pointed at the end, and undivided at the edges. The ftalk isround;-upright, firm, and not at all branched. Theleaves onit are, like thofe from the root, broadeft in the middle, oblong, fmall at the bafe, pointed at the end, and of a frefh green. and fay the plant has no flower; but this is erroneous. The feed-veffel is mall, and the feeds are roundifh, but dented at one end. It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in July. : Gronovius calls it Medeola foliis tellatis lanceoatis. slic! Plog & Sa oelee Plants with the flower compofed of NUMEROUS PETALS, and the feeds contained i @ SINGLE CAPSULE. fo Te is a clafs, which, like the former, comprehends, but a few plants; but they are perfectly and obvioufly feparated by Nature fromall others, that whofoever follows her {teps muft thus arrange them diftinétly. As we have hitherto alfo purfued her traces through the feveral difpofitions of plants, which, is the agreeing in the markof a fingle feed-veffel, have from one to fix petals in each flower, here place where the ftudent will expeét to find thofe genera which, with the firft grand characteriftick of a fingle capfule, have more than fix petals. So plain, fo eafy, andfo familiar, is the fcience of botany, when. not encumbered with intricate words, and ufelefs diftinctions. , natives oF Wehave, in this, as in the former clafs, but two genera, any {pecies of which ‘are Yet thefe two Linnzus has fepatated by feveral claffes, puting the hypopitys among his They are difpofed in a ftellated manner on the d and the zymphea among the polyandria, though both agree in thefe obvious particulars: His method is unhappy that thus reduces himto feparate plants the moft palpably allied, and join them to the moft unlike, The END of the TW EULF 3f A C.L, A.S)S; SUUGOHOSA SHSESSSSSS OLASSESGSSSCSIHS SSSSGRIGS ge ee a EE aly British GENERA, 'Thofe of which one or more ‘fpecies are natives of this country, Gree sae peUn oe I. HYPOQPITLYS. ferrated ‘at thejrends: the feed-veffel is EIE flower is compofed of ‘numerous petals, which are numerous and light: there is no cup. oval, and markedwith five tidges; and the feeds are that name; but they err; thefe properly conSome have called the outer petals of the flower by for that purpofe, its ftitute a part of the flower, and contain’ in’ their bafes, which are hollowed i honeyedjuice. threads in the’ flower being ten, and the Linnzus places this among the decandria monogynia ; the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingleauthor takes away its received name Aypopitys, and calls it monotropa. This for not afcererceive, in the defcription of the firft plant of this genus, .a reafon clafs: nature does not nomber of petals in the plants of this, as in thofeof the preceding number they are geilar here fo ftri@tly : whenthe petals in flowers are in a large ufually has ten pe~ In this Species of Aypopitys the flower which terminates the ftalk ers, when there are more, have only eight, Lil |