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Show 228 Th BRITISH HERBAL. Allfeed. Radiola. LIQ The root is fmall, and furnifhed with many fibres. The ftalk is round, and divided into a vatt multitude of branches. The whole plant is not more than an inch high. The leaves ftand in pairs, and they are of a dufky green, fhort, and broad. Theh- The flowers are very fmall, and white; and they ftandin clufters at the tops of the branches. The feed-veftels are large and brown; and the feeds minute. It is not uncommonon heaths, and flowers in July. Ray calls it Radiola vulgaris Jerpylli thers, Hernaria minima. eecesgoseseons PPMBSPRRBee Thofe of which there is no fpecies native of this country. EN ae I. BAR RENWORT. Hypecoum “y oe no, thick, 2 urnilhe witl The root is long, thick, and fe d_ with many fibres. The leaves that rife from it are large, and beautifully divided into fegments: they are of the pinnated form, but each of the. pinnae of which they are compofed, is again divided into {maller parts ; and they are deeply notched at the edges: the whole leaf is of a pale bluifh or yelJowith green; and its pedicle is often redifh to- ward the ground. The ftalk is round, ridged, upright and of a pale colour : oftenit isflatted. Toward the lower part it is fimple, and ufually naked: higher up it has feveral leaves; and toward the top it It is commonin the fouthern parts of Europe, and flowers in July. HE flower is formed of four petals, regularly difpofed: the feed-veffel is long, flender, pointed at the end, and made of two valves, containing numerous feeds in a fingle cell: the cup is compofed of four leaves, and falls with the flower. C. Bauhine calls it fimply Hypecoum; and moft authors follow him. Others ,call it Hypecoum Jiiquis articulatis. Linnzus places this among the tetrandria monogynia ; the threads in the centre of the flower being a? four, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. Epimedium. The rootis flender and creeping, and is hung about with numerous fibres, The firft leaves ftand on long, flender, and divided foorftalks, and there are ufually three on tach divifion. They are heart-fafhioned, deeply cut in at the bafe, and thence fmaller to the extremity ; and are very fharply ferrated round the edges. The ftalk rifes among thefe, and is round, firm, upright, not at all branched, and a foot high. There ufually ftands one of thefe compound leaves upon it, confifting of five fingle ones, each on its own feparate footftalk ; and thefe are, G.-E N PODDED iN OE Of this genus there is but one known fpecies. Barrenwort. bras 2. Podded Cummin with fmooth pods. Ty pnen HL TTePOr ES ; Eypecoum filiquis teretibus levibus, (D long feed. EPEMEDIU™M. “HaeaR BAL, enon Podded Podded Ciimmit 1. Common Cummin, divides into branches. The leaves on the ftalk are like thofe from the root, only fmaller. The flowers are moderately large, and of a bright yellow: they ftand on flender footftalks at the extremities of the branches. The feed-vefiel is long, crooked, and jointed; and.in each joint there is containeda fingle ob- ForeEIGN GENERA. Gy BERG kT TiS@H! “ + Theroot is long, flender, and furnithed with numerous fibres, The firft le are long, narrow, and pinnated: each is compofed of four, five, or more E of pinne on a long middle rib, with an odd one at the end; and theyare all very deeply indented, fome of the lower ones down to the rib: the colour of the whole leaf is a frefh and beautiful green. The ftalks are flender, round, upright, and ten inches high. The leayes on them refemble thofe from the root, but that they are fmaller and of a paler colour, and are more deeply indented. The flowers ftand at the tops ofthe ftalkss andthey are fmall and yellow. The feed-veflel is a long pod, not jointed, as in the common hypecoum, but fmooth: it is frequently a little crooked, and always hangs down, The feeds are numerous, oblong, and yellowifh. It is frequent in many parts of Europe, and fi flowers in July. Dalefchamp calls it Caminumfylveftre fliquatum ; andothers have followed him, PerUH 2S III, LUDWIGIA. like thofe from the root, heart-fafhioned, ferrated, and pointed. The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalk in a kind of fpike, and each has its feparate, flender footftalk: they are of a deep purple, with an edge of yellow. The feed-veffel is long and flender, and the four HE flower is formed of four petals regularly difpofed: the feed-veffel is compofed of valves: the cup is divided. into four long and narrow fegments, which appear between the petals of the flower, and: remain whenit is fallen. Linneus places this among the tetrandria monogynia 5 the threadin the centre of the flower being four, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. Alternate-leaved Ludwigia. feeds are oblong and {mall. It is a native of many of the northernparts of Europe, and lives inthe damp parts of forelts. It flowers in Augutt. All authors call it Epimedium, the plant being fo fingular that it needs no diftinétive epithets It has been faid to be a native of this kingdom, but not truly. Its virtues are not certainly known. Ludwigia foliis anguftis alternis. 7 Theroot is compofed of numerous long fibres rifing from a {mall head. The ftalk is round, firm, upright, ftriated, and of a yellowifh colour. Theleaves are placedalternately upon it; and they are long, narrow, and fharp-pointed ; and have no footftalks. The flowers grow toward the topsof the ftalks, and of the branches rifing from the bofoms of the upper leaves: they are placed fingly in the U_ Ss I. CUMMIN. Get HYPE CO UM, ee bofoms of the leaves on thefe parts of the plant; andare large and yellow. The feed-veffel is fquare andlarge: it is open at the top, and it contains numerous. fmall feeds. It is a native of Virginia, and flowers'in July. Plukenet, calls it Lyfmachia non papofa flore luteo majori filiqua caryophylloide Virginiana, Gronovius calls it fimply, Ludwigia, Van Royen, Ludwigia capfulis fubrotundis. Its virtues are unknown, LU IV, © OLDENLANDIA. ‘HE flower is compofed of four petals of unequal fize: two of thefe are larger, and divided I each into three parts; andthefe ftand more outwards: the other two ftand inwards, and al fe tots flightly into three parts at the top; the middle fegment being hollowed, com prefied and erect: the feed-veffel is long, crooked, and jointed: th i (e liccle leaves, ‘and falls with the flower. ai ; : eee Linnzus places this among the fetrandria digynia; the threads in the centre of the flower being iis round feed-veffel d, and fpread open: the feed-veffel HE, flower'confifts of fourpetals regularly difpofe the’ cup ‘is divided into four , and contains numerous {mall feeds in two cells: and coriaceous narrow fegments, and remains when the flower is fallen. : ’ ; fower being four,and the Linneus places this among the tetrandria monogynia ; the threads in'the ftyle from the rudiment of the'fruit fingle. four, and the ftyles from the rudiment ofthe fruit two. 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