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Show 358 BeRa4 © 18 The “HIE*R! BsAt L. the others, and is nipped at the end; and fo is the upper lip. The cup is tubular andftriated, top comprefie d, and divided into two lips, in the fame manner formed ofa fingle piece, and at the the lower has two points. The feeds ftand as the Hower. The upperlip.ol f the cup has three, and them. The flowers ftand in clufters round the ftalk; and naked in the cup, whofe top fhuts over there are no leaves under them. ig the threads in the flower being two, andthe mono Linnzus places this among the diandria ; ftyle fingle. Thet The feeds are black. It is common in wafte places, and flowers in Augutt. C. Bauhinecalls it Horminum fylvefire lavendula fore. ip lS TON. g it to be a diftinét genus; but the naked difpofition of Thisauthor joins it with /age, not allowin Horminum bortenfe. g head. from which it differs as effentially, as we fhall fhew underthe fucceedin andthatis a native ofBritain. Of this genus there is but one known {pecies, Sclarea pratenfis. tiful bluify purple. SPIES: O The feeds are fmall and brown. The root is compofed of numerous, large fibres, connected to an oval head, The firft leaves are very large, and of a greyifh green: they are placed on fhort footftalks; and are broadat the bafe, fmaller to the point, and irregularly indented at the edges. The ftalk is robuft, upright, branched, and two foot and a half high: it is brown, and a little hairy. The leaves ftandin pairs on it; and they have fearce any footftalks: they are large, oblong, rough, andirregularly indented at the edges. ‘The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and branches in long fpikes: they are placed on thefe in circular tufts at diftances; and there are at the utmott only fome imperfect rudiments of leaves It is found in dampplaces, but is not com- mon, PCS7/O The root is long, thick, brown, and hung with under them: they are very large, and of a beau- It flowers in July. C. Bauhinecalls it Horm z ratis. Others, Sclarea pratenfis, and Sclarea fl veftris. The feeds of this plant put into the eye,bring away any little foulneffes with them. The practice is antient ; but the mannerof its effect islittle underftood. As foon as the feed is put in, the warmth and moifture of the eye operating upon its own fubftance, coverit with a thick and tough mucilage : as it continues moving in theeye,this entangles thelittle fubftances which had gotin by afew ftraggling fibres. The colour is brown, and the tafte warm, andnot difagreeable. The leaves that rife fromit are very large, of a whitifh green, and rough: they are broadeft at the bafe; whence they grow fmaller to the end, where they terminate obtufely ; and they are flightly waved at the edges. The ftalk is {quare,firm, upright, andayardhigh, The leaves ftand in pairs on it; and they are large, rough, and of a greyifh green: they are placed on footftalks ; and are broad, anda little waved at the edges. The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and branches inlong, thick {pikes ; and they are very large, of a gaping figure, and of a pale blue colour. The cups in which theyftand are glutinous to the teuch. accident, and occafioned the pain; and brings Go them out with it. PIERRE B<AtT, It poffeffés the virtues of the gardenin an inferior degree ; for which reafon it i regarded in medicine. FORE EFGN. I, Garden-Clary: The common writers confound it with clary, bor; the fower is a fuficient-generical diftinétion. Wild Seebright: BRI ITT Pisco! Noa E S PE C1 Ess; The feeds are fmooth, and of a dufky redith brown, oblong, andof a glofly furface, It is a native of the Greek iflands, and is found wild alfo in Apulia. Tt flowers in July. C, Bauhine Others, Ho n bortenfe, and Hor gare fativum. This plant is cordi It is good againft as alfo in nervous lownefs offpirits. A conferve of the tops of this warms the ftomach, andoperate PRUNE tilled water of it has alfo the fame cs; but it muft be of the fpirituous kind, for it does not fully give its virtues to water. It has been a cuftomto addthe leaves to wine in the making: they give it a cordial virtue, and not a difagreeable flavour. Ula Ss HE.D.G EEN Bal Ty Lik, Gif Hp NUS GALEOPS TIS, VIIL Ca aA eR LY. EE OR PM ENP Se wer is large, andlabiated : it is formed of a fingle petal, which is tubular, and compreffed in the lower part, and divided in a gaping manner at the top. The upper lip is long,large, and crooked ; the lowerlip is divided into three fegments, the middle one of whichis again divided into three y and angul ancul and The cupis formedofa fingle piece, and is alfo divided into twolips it is tubular, i; and one ofthe lips has two, the other three points. The flowers ftand in tufts about the tops of the ftalks with a particular kind of coloured leaves about them; and at the top there ual re fome e fe ay i i re} ufually are of thefe leaves in clufters, without any flowers among them. Thefeeds are placed naked in the bottom of the cup. : Linn: ns this genus and /age together, abolifhing the received name borminum : but the difnctionis-fufficient, as we fhall fhew when treating of /age among thofe verticillate I plants of which nofpecies are native of England. Te places this genus among the diandria monogynia ; the threads being, as that term exprefies, two in’ each flower, and the ftyle fingle. 1 He makes the effential HE flower is formed of a fingle petal ; whichis tubular at the bottom, and dividedin the labiated manner at the mouth. The tube is fhort, and between the upper and under lip there isa kind of palate, terminated each way bya little crooked tooth. The upper lip is large, hooked, and undivided : the lower lip is fhort, broad, and heart-fathioned, and it turns back. The cup jstubular, and at the top is terminated by five flender parts, refembling briftles. The feeds are four in number ; and they remain naked. Linneus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia ; the threads in the flower being four, two of which are longer than the others, andtheftyle fingle. This author creates confufion byhis diftribution of thefe plants. He takes away the name of galeopfis from this, making it a fpecies of flachys; and he ufes the word galeopfis, antiently and diftin@ly given to this plant, as the name of another genus, including the 4empunettles, and fome other kinds; of which we fhall fpeak hereafter. Dir Vv 1.5. OLN either remove thofe fpecies out of this genus, or this genus out of theclafs. DACVMES ON 1. BRITISH 1. Broad-leaved Wild Clary. Horminum fylveftre vulgare. 777C5 49 The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with numerous fibres, Thefirft leaves are large, rough, and. of a dufky green: they are oblong, irregularly divided at the edges, and rife but little from the ground, SPECIES. The ftalk grows up in the centre; and is {quare, firm, and two feet high: its colour is brown, and it is not much branched. Theleaves ftand in pairs, and havefcarce any footftalks : they are rough, and of a greyifh green, and are irregularly waved and indented. The flowers ftand at the tops of the ft i long fpikes, which ufually bend or droopa li they are {mall, and of a very fine blu BR IT 1S By) Hedgenettle. character confift in the two threads being fplit or forked ; and as this isis their form in the clary as well as /age, he for that reafon joins thofe plants under one name, But in the eye of Reafon this is a poor occafion of uniting plants fo obyioufly different as thofe: and the more curious enquirer ; Sure Aowe 7 tell z, oa into the ftructure * the formation of flowers will i him, that there are fuch variations in of this inBN part Gare ofot the flower flower in i fome of. thefe S a p ternal ens . il plants, which in his fpecies he allows to be falvia, 48 will dl. 1. Galeopfis legitima. 1 ett Theroot is long, lender, and creeping : it is white, and fends out long fibres on every part, from which in feparate places rife numerous plants. The ftalk is fquare, upright, hairy, and of a brownith green: it is a yard high, and is rarely much branched. The leaves are placed in pairs: they ftand at {tances ; and they have footftalks, which are 5 . The leaves are very broad rt, heart-fafhioned at the ftalk, and pointed e end : they are nickeda little at the edges, 1eir colour is a pale, greyifh green. ‘Their ais rough, the veins are large, and they he flowers ftandin loofe fpikes at the tops of the flalk; and are large, and of a beautiful SP, E.€ dE Sx purple, agreeably diverfified with dots of white. The feeds are fmall and brown. It is common in hedges and among bufhes, and flowers in June and July. C. Bauhine calls it Lamium maximum fylvaticum fatid Others, Galeopfis, and Galeopfis legitima Diofco It is a deobftruent: its principal virtue is againft obftructions of the fpleen; and the beft method of taking it is the juice frefh preffed. 2. Small Hedge-nettle. Galeopfis minor foliis angulatis. The root is long andthick: itis furnifhed with manyfibres, and fends out many creef sa] run underthe a upplants aes ls which ace, and fend in various places. 1 The |