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Show TheBRITISH St HE is bo Natives of BRITAIN. BRITISH Thofe of which one or more fj are nat NOW ek 1 C.. cae SS... XV, Plants whofe flower is compofed of rour rerars regularly difpofed, in form of a crofs; and whofe feeds are contained in ‘a REGULAR Pon, of a long and flender fhape. JWER EI BH Ae ON sie aay AM es MH NeaH AN We A tO a a A, PPoEOdRega MDAGIAIPHP Aa aS GG PR LEUGOTUM the pod is long, flender, fl HE flower is compofedof four large peta 2d by a ftyle, which is fplit at valves, containing two cells, andte: s with the flower : the feec compofed offour long, narrowleaves, a é plants, among the ¢ Linnzus places this, with the reft of th abolithes its received name/eucoium, calling it cb There is one fingular plant of this genus, the po of which, inftead of ida Ser cn ae er a = fee Ene Pe t the reit, re jury refers 1f to . u JAN newgenus. The botanifts of late time have accounted it an honourto conftit to be f foré fought the moft trivial marks for a diftinCtion, which ought eS A . oe i Te HE plants ofc this clafs are fo effentially and obvioufly diftinguithed from all others, and fo happily united among themfelves, that moft of the botanical writers have kept shee te gether, and in a diftinét clafs. : : herba tetrapetala filiquofe ; an f rt, ber ea ante : ce Raycallss them herbstetrapetale Linneus cruciformi. polypetalo flore be f ont & put Tomes diftinguifhes 2 ¥them b y the es ae ae tetradynamia; the threads in the flower being ufually fix, and of thefe, four being always longerthan thereft: thefe four he efteems moreefficacious in the fe ; Jati peace cunaaton i of the feeds; and thence has namedthe clafs. This author places in the fame clafs thofe genera . 5 : and thofe which have long, which have fhort, Ore ni ly diftinouithi a C2 Nie Rone pods, only diftinguifhing them as belonging to two feétions ° cra has re 5 him, and fo have many others: but the diftin€tion between the feveral cc isfe ae — 1s 10 plain, an ‘ ; i oan fo well obferved by nature, 1ature, that thi ey demand in a juft m arranged under twodiftiné claffes. J ethod to be The very authors who place them together, always feparate them by. a fubdivifion; and they are diftinguifhed A byeftablithed titles: univerfally received, and univerfally underftood; thole whi yhi ! ; ay longpods being called herb filiquofe, and thofe which have fhort ones, berbe filiculofe ae -We arepO unhappyin thesyne Englifh language EEPE nage in a dearth t of fcientifick terms:; we lave no namesof : ames on words that diftinétly convey the fenfe of /liqua and flicula, on which this feparation is founded ; we only call them long pods and little pods; but the term /iicula is not in this cafe fimply ; jimi tive ; for the fhort pod differs in-form as well as fize from the other ee ere ees i yor fhale, ufed by Les is = wee : word, fome authors of credit, and adopted by our dictio narie afk moar A pees . : naries, for a hufk, or covering of feeds: we fhall, in this want ofc ae terms for diftinéti sropri it to the fhort feed-vefiel, called in Latin fiicula, andcall the other onl y a pod.d ate : Bi ors oe ae te words to afcertain our meaning in eacharticle. a fhall follow the fteps Fe ca of thefe plants, making j i i ri nature int he divifion or : thofe with pod hT pile : ® Alique, conftitute one clafs; and thofe with /hales filicule, another. and ha onthe greateft ‘ ee The Arabians call the commonyellow w. fiatne cheiranthus for the whole DIV.IS LON ak B Rbis Tans & : Wallflower. Common) Wallflower 1; Common) = ; Leucoiu ee uteum vuleare. ; but it is wrong Kahu L344. . The root. is. divided into.a number of long, s, each furnifhed with numerous aD are all and, 4. a leffer, double wa te ; oa owing to culture; eties : thefe Rita of thus ue eyennn 2. Sea hard, and saves are long, narrow, sey have no foorftall af The flowers grow in ak top ofthe’ ftalks and branches; and and fweet fcented. flender, and wi nall. on rocks; and has thence, fori 5 been introduced ‘into gar r, and indeed the whole ‘plant, grow er than in the wild ftate. it Leuc rs od diditt ed |