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Show Th BRITISH HERBAL, DIVISION FPOREDGN I. The dith; and the leaf ftands flatways, not erect, uponit: it is of a heartelike fhape, and of a deep, fine n. A The ftalk which fupports the flowers rifes aer part of the root: it is four 1, flender, redifh, and upright. About the middle it has two leaves, placed at fome diftance, one over the other; they are heart-fa: fhioned, and of the fame fine green: they furround the ftalk at the bafe, and terminate in a point. : , ; The flowers terminate the ftalk in a thick, fhort fpike: they are fmall, white; and of a very fragrant fmell. The berries are {mall, and, when ripe, red. AS PB CLE §, 2. Narrow-leaved Solomon’s Seal, Polhgonatum anguftifoli AG be 1, Branched Solomon’s Seal. Polygonatum ramofum. AL 46uD The root is thick, large, and of an irregular form, and fpreads underthe furface. The ftalks are round, firm, upr The root is compofedof a vaft number of thick fibres, connected to a fimall head. The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and branched, and is two feet and a half high. The leaves are very large, and of a fine deep green: they furround the ftalk by a broadbafe, and growfmaller thence to a point. The flowers are fall and whitifh: they hang fingly on long, flender, and, as it were, jointed footftalks, rifing fro the bofomis of the leaves : they are white, with a faint tinct of green. The berries are at firft green and fpotted, but afterwards red. Tt is frequent in Germany, and flowers in Au- guft. C. Bauhine calls it Pohgonatum Jatifolium ra- mofum. fometimes they divide a little. The leaves ate oblong, narrow, fharp-p and of a pale green: they do not ftandin the manner of thofe in the other kinds, but furround the ftalks like the leaves of the ftellate plants, The flowers hang fromthe bofoms of theleaves on fingle footftalks, ufually one from the bofom of each Jeaf: they are fmall and white. The berriés are roundifh, and, when ripe, of a fine red. It is a native of Germany, and flowersin July. C. Bauhine calls it Pohygonatuma ifoliumnon ramofum. THe diftinguifhes another under the name of Polygonatum anguftifolium ramofum, but Gren Ne LEE OP SU es THB cells; in each of which are two rows offeeds.. VAG bey; The The Div is bON-, The flowers grow at the top in a’kind of fpike ; but they ali hang one Way : they are large, of a whitifh colour, and of an extremyel fragrant fimell. pee DEV tS 10 Nu. This is a veryfingularlittle plant: it has been defcribed by authors under a difti n& name ; but bu it is in all refpeéts a true and Proper Jilly of the valley, The flalkis Gingle, upright, not at all branched, and a foot high. The leaves grow all from one part near the S top: they are four. Their colour is a fine deep green, andthey are broad and oblong, The floweris fingle, one only on each plant : it terminates the ftalk, and is compofed of four It is commonin our woods, but does not always arrive at perfection. In many places only the leaves are feen, the plants never flowering; and in many others the berries do not ripen, C. Bauhine calls it Lilkium convallium album. Others, Lillium convalliam vulgare. It is an excellent medicine in nervous cafes. PIVISit OW The flowers have the principal virtue. ‘They leaves inthis are‘narrower, and the fowers {mallers but this is only accidental. SUP BUCrr ES. _ The rootis long, flender, divided, and creeping. The firft appearance of the plant is in a fingle leaf, fupported on a long footftalk : this obtained it the name oneblade, for when it rifes to flower it has two. The footftalk that fupports the firft leaf is re difh petals, and is of a greenifh white. The cup id of the fame colour, andis formedoffour leaves. The berry is large and black. We have it in woods, but not common. Authors call it Herda Paris. The berries are recommended as good in malignant fevers internally, and as cooling in outwardapplications; but it is not now ufed. Ourpeople, who, fromits leaves growing in this fingular manner, call it Zruelover’s knots have in fome places an opinion ofits vittue as a love-powder; but this is idle, FO RE TG IN] Sop EC Bss; Cornutus calls it Solanum triphyllum Canadenfe. No plant fhews more perfectly or more plainly than this {pecies of Herba Paris, the impropriety The root is large, thick, and tuberous, and of Linnzus’s method of forming the claffes on has fewfibres. the number of threads in the flower. None can The ftalk is tound, upright, firm, not at all doubt, nor can himfelf deny, that this is a fpecies branched, and about a foot high. of the fame genus; yet he is obliged to acknowToward the middle there ftand three leaves : jedge, that the threads, andall the otherparts of thefe are broad, fhort, and fharp-pointed: they fruétification, are in this one-fourth in number th fabftance ; and their colouris a fine lefs than in the other, The threads are three, is fingle, one only growing oneach andfo of the reft. The charaéter we have given of the genus, e ftalk, and is verylarge taking in the difpofition of the leaves, is perfect : of three petals, andit cup. The colour isa | it admits both thefe fpecies, and it excludes all other plants: but this no generical character can the cupis green. 7 black: the feeds } do that is formed upon the threads of the flower. We have fhewn the fame truth in other inHerba Paris trifeliata, P’L4eu had impofed on fome as a diftin& fpecies, The 2 ‘i. S:P EC TE. 9; Trifoliate Herb Truelove. maybe taken in infufion; but the beft way is ia conferve: they are thus good againft head-achs, and all nervous complaints. Dried and powdered, they aét as fnuff, and do great fervice in inveterate diforders ofthe head. Ray mentions a variety of this plant, which FOREIGN Onteblade, Lillium convallium Solis cordat is.,Pla Gut? PARTS, BRITISH The root creeps under the furface: it is long, finder, and has numerous fibres. The berries are large, round, and red. high andlarge ribs. The ftalk which bears the flowers rifes near the ftem, which fupports the leavés, and is commonly connected to it by a membranous cafe. There are no leaves on this ftalk, VI. The ftalk is fimple, and the leaves growall from one Herb Truelove. BAIT TINS Hes PEC TES and they are of a firm fubftance, and marked with USS Herba Paris vulgatis. Pla Gu 72 by feveral ciaffes, and joins it in the fame genus with the polygonatum. He alfo changes the received name, writing it convallaria, The rootis long, flender, fpreading, and créeping to a great diftance under the furface. The leaves that rife from this are ufually two, fometimes three: they are very large, and ofa fine green, oblong, broad, and fharp-pointed ; The rootofthis laft fpecies has been celebrated againft the plague, but I fear upon no good foundation, point. Linnzus places this among the offandria tetragynia ; the threads in the flower being eight, and the fiyles from the rudiment ofthe fruit being four, anfwerable to its fourdivifions, This author takes away a part of the received name: he writes it only Paris. Linneeus places this among the hexandria monogynia; the threads in the flower being fix, andthe ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. He feparates it from the reft of the berry- bearing piants plan Lilium convallium vulgare.S04 Gx (0 323 It is frequent in the mountainous parts of Ger+ many, where the foil is damp. It flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Lilium con 4 Minus. Others, Monophyllon. It has been faid to growwild in fome parts of England; but there was fome miftake in the account. Species are feldom loft in a kingdom where they ever did grow wild; and it is not found with us now. HE flower confifts of an uncertain number of petals: they are oblong, and they {pread open: The cupis compofed of an uncertain number of leaves, and it remains after the flower. ‘The fruit is a berry of a roundifh form, but fomewhat angulated in four parts, and divided within into four LILLIUM CONVALLIUM. 1. Common Lilly of the Valley, H HERBAL. TR UE L Over HERB A V. HE flower is formed of a fingle petal; and is hollow and glebular. There is no cup. berry is roundifh, divided into three cells within, andbefore its growing ripe is fpotted. leaves are few, and nervous. DAWVebrors Oe as HERB it is only a variety of this. Gack (BURSL IT 1 ; It isa native of North America, and flowers in July. {tances ; but it is in none fo ftriking. GENUS |