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Show BRITISH Thé 336 AuIt is a native of Curaffo, and flowers in gut. iPlukenet ‘calls it Solanum veficarinm Curelfav jubcum Solano-antiquorum famile, fois origant incanis. 4. Many-flowered Hoary Winter-Cherry. Alkekengi multiflorum foltis hitfutis AYOLO The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with a fewfibres. The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and two feet high: it is of a greyifh colour, and is covered lightly with a hoary matter. The leaves are placed on flender footftalks : NH GE HER BAL. The: they are alfo ofa greyith green, hoary, a ij. vided at the edges: they are broadeft toward the middle, and pointed at end. The flowers are. placed on flender foortt Iks, whichrife in great numbers frony the bofgna of every leaf; and they are {mall and. of a *faint purple. The berry is finall and red, and it is contained ina fkinny cup. This is accounted: poifonous, and is fuppofed to be the true /o nf wm of the antients; but their deferiptions are fo. imperfect, that it is hard to determine that matter. Alpinus calls it Sol Others, Solanum for QUELS FRYARS VI. COWL. ARISARUM. "HE flower has no petals. The cup is very large, long, hollow, not upright, as in arwm; but bending down toward the upper part, and fplit: the club within it refembles that of the arum, -B RUITiI SiEP Dracontium vulgare. Goutal The firft leaves are very large, and very beautiful: they are placed fingly on long, thick footftalks ; and are of the palmated kind, formed of numerous, long, and moderately broad fegments, difpofed like fingers on a hand. Theftalk rifes among thefe ; and is round, upright, thick, of a fpungy fubftance, and four feet high. The leaves on this are placed fingly on very long footftalks, and refemble thofe from the root, being compofed of many fegments, and of a beautiful green. The floweris very large, and is placed fingly at the top of the ftalk. The cup is green on the outfide, but of a deep and beautiful purple within. The club is'very large, and of a fine red, fometimes white. The root is a fmall, roundifh, tuberous lump, with a few fibres at the top. The leaves are fupportedfingly on long, flender footftalks ; and they are of a lively green, very large, oblong, heart-fathioned at’ the bafe, andpointedat the'end. The flower rifes on a feparate ftalk in the centre of the tuft of leaves, ‘and refembles that of the common arum : itis a great greenifh cup, purple towardthe top and at the edges; and it bends down, andfplits at the extremity ; within this is feen a purple club, whichalfo bends forward. The berries are {mail and red. It is commonin Spain and Italy, and flowers in June. C, Bauhine calls it 2 latifolium. 2. Narrow-leaved’ Arifarum. The leaves aré Jong, narrow,-and of a freth beautiful green. The ftalk rifes among thefe; and is flender, upright, of a pale green, and about ten inches high: there generallyare wrappedabout this the remains of the bafes of fome leaves. The flower fhews itfelf in a fingular manner, Thecupis long and flender ; andthe club is alfo very long, bent downward, and crooked: its colour is a dufky purple ; and it ufually thrutts itfelf out of the cup in fuch manner as to refemble a large earth-wormcrawling. The berries are round and fmall, greenat firlty but whenripe of fine red. It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, and flowers in June. J. Bauhine calls it Arifarym anguftifolium 5 a name moft others have followed. The rootsofthefe are very powerful diuretickss a 1m. PLY AR The root is a fmall, roundifh lump, brown.on the outfide, and white within, HOON but they are not much ufed except by the pea fants, Gans The root is compofed of a thick head, from whence rife many long creeping fibres. The firft leaves are fupported on long footftalks ; and they are of the palmated kind: each is compofed ofabout feven oblong andbroad fegments, refembling fo many feparate leaves; and thefe are of a pale green. The ftalk is round, upright, and a foot high. The leaveson this perfectly refemble thofe from the root ; but they are fmaller: they are alfo of a paler green. The flower ftands at the top; and is formed of a fhort, hollow cafe, with a very long club rifing up far beyondits top, and terminating in a fmall point. The berries are numerous, large, and, when they are ripe, of a fine red. It is a native of America, and flowers in May. Hermancalls it Arumpolyphyllum minus & humilius, Others, Dracontium Americanum, The berries are placed: together in a large Linnzus places this among the gynandria polyandria ; the threads. being numerous, and fixed to the 1. Broad-leaved Arifgrum: Arifarumlatifolium. Pluavn th 2. American Dragons. Dracontium Americanum {padice long clufter, and are red whenripe. The ftalk’of this fpecies is ufually of a whitith piftil. But he confounds it with the arum, making it only a fpecies of that genus; whereasit evidently differs generically. We cultivate it in gardens forits fin andits virtues. It has the credit of being a ful fudorifick and refifter of poifon; but it is not much regardedin the prefent practice. The root is large, thick, and furnithed with numerous andf{preading fibres. colour, ftained andfpeckled in a curious manner, like the fkin ‘of a ferpent, with purple and green: it thence obtained the name. The threads of the flower fupport {quare buttons. roundifh, and fet in a. clufter. It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, and flowers in Auguft. Genoy EacisiNe 337 C. Bauhine calls it» Dracunculus pol) Others, Dracontium. y. Common Dragon. The berries are numerous, but it is alfo bent. IVE Ri Bi A oll: Us 0S VIIL. Giedall Ei as HE flower refembles that of the arum, and has no petals. The cup is compofedof fingle leaf, of an oval fhape, but pointed, and coloured. Theclub is upright, fhort, and hid among the buttons and rudiments of the fruit. This is a clufter of roundberries, in which are contained many oblong, obtufe feeds. Linnzus places this among the gysandria polyandria; the threads in the flower being numerous, and fixed to the piftil. Water Dragon. Calla aquatica. P?LAD 7 Theroot is long, thick, and jointed : it runs obliquely in the mud in fhallow waters, and fends up numerous leaves from various parts. Thefe rife in clufters , and are fupported fingly on long, thick footftalks: they are broad, fhort, of a heart-fathioned fhape, fharp-pointed, and of a deep green. The ftalks are round, thick, and upright, of a pale green, and about fix inches high: theyrife in the middle of the tuft of leaves, and are furtounded by the bafes of feveral of them at the bottom : they are from thence nicked to the top, where there ftands the cup, formed ofa fingle leaf, and fplit to receive the ftalk. This is of a pale green, and remains with the fruit. The club rifes within this; but it is fhort, and hid among the threads, which are whitifh, with yellow buttons. The berries ripen in a {mall clufter, and, when ripe, are of a fine red. It is commonin theditches in Holland, and flowers in May. C. Bauhine calls it Dracunculus radice arun dinacea, Others, Dracunculus aquaticus, DRAGON. DRACONTIUM GEN HE flower has no petals, ! The cup. is large, hollow, and formed of a fingle leaf. In this ftands a clut D, in the fame manner as in the arum: 3 and the buttons of the flower, and rudiments of the berries, are at the bottom. The iti . The fruit is a clufter of berries, numerous, large, and red. The leaves are dividedin th n€ Manner of fingers. Linnzus places tl us among the gynandria monogynia, the buttons being numerous, and fixed to the piftil. This. auth ue a This author makes it a {pecies of arum, , referving the name dracontium for a diftin& genus, altogether unlike the plant to which this 3 name hasbeen appropriated ; and comprehending fome fpecit® ufually called arum. The udent will from this avoid the confufion * 1, Common U2 ALEXANDRIAN IX. LAUREL. HIPPOGLOSSUM. HE flower has no petals. The cup is compofed of fix oval, convex leaves; thtee of which The ftand inward, and three outward, andit is placed on the under-fide of the leaf. fruit is a round berry, divided into three cells within, and containing in each two feeds of a roundifh figure. aR Linneus N° XXXIV, |