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Show The. BsREIET SiH: Sor BR. 1 IHVRUR! B! A cL: EB gio h Natives of BRiTAtrN. Thofe of which one or more fpecies are naturally wild in this country, Boke 7 1S. HER BA. L Side iece ant BUGLOSS REVELLLEELLOEGREP CLASS Ss A, PULMONARIA. D XXIL vu COWSLIP. HE flower is formedof a fingle petal it is tubular at the bottom ; and is of the length of the cup in this part. The rim is divided into five obtufe fegments. The cup is tubular, formed of a fingle piece, ftriated, and nippedin five places at the edge. Thefeeds are four after every flower 3 and they ftand naked. Linnaeus placts this among the pentandria monogynia ; the filaments in the flower being five, and the ftyle fingle. Plants whofe flower is formed of a fingle petal, divided into five parts at the edge; whofe feeds ftand naked, and are four in number after every flower; and whofe leaves are placed alternately or irregularly, not in pairs, upon the falks. DP heVil,5 1 OUN:, Be Ta SH el Long-leaved Pulmonaria. Pulmonaria longifolia, in the manner of cow/lips, which they refemble 7’7S°5,, / The root is fibrous. PORCAHIS is a clafs as naturally and as obvioufly diftinguifhed from all others, as any of the prei ceding. The plants which compofe it wear a plain and perfect refemblance of one another, and are unlike all others. This equally joins them under one head, and feparates all the Their place, in a natural arrangement of the genera, is marked by Nature 5 for reft from them. they follow thofe which have four feeds, in the fame manner ; but/have their leaves in pairs, and have labiated flowers. Their charaéters, which’ feparate them from thefe, ate incommunicable , while what they have in common with them is alfo throughout: the whole feries unvaried. So regular, fo accurate is Nature in her diftinétions. Mr. Ray, who. ftudied her in her own courfe, perceived it. He took in the difpofition of the leaves, as well asthe ftruéture of the flowers, into his claffical charaéters; and-by that practice he kept thefe plants together, which others have {catered over their works. See Cl aS: alfo in their fhape. ‘Their colour is a fine bright red while in the buds but they grow purplith and bluifh, as-they open. The firft leaves are numerous, large, and beautiful: they are long, and moderately broad, fharp-pointed, not at all indented at the edges, and of a deep green colour, handfomely variegated with fpots of white. The ftalk is firm, upright, not much branched, and a foot andhalfhigh. The leaves on this refemble thofe from the root; but they are fmaller. The flowersare very beautiful : they are placed The feeds are roundifh. It is found wild in fome of our large woods, and for its beauty is brought thence into gars dens. C. Bauhine calls it Pulmonaria anguptifolia rus bente ceruleo flore. Others, Pulmonaria foliis echii. Our Englifh gardeners call this and the following buglo/s cowflips, and fage of Ferufalem. But thefe are bad names; and as our language affords no better, it is beft to ufe the Latin. in little tufts at the tops of the ftalks and branches Linnaeus limits the claffical charaéters of plants to the confideration of the more minute parts of their flowers: therefore he muft fail in cafes where the general external fafhion of the flower makes the diftinétion, much more where Nature has placed the great mark of diftinction in the fituation and difpofition of the leaves; which he never admits as a claffical, nor indeed asa generical diftinétion, but only as a part of the defcription of the fpecies. Raycalls thefe the afperifoliate plants, guided by the roughnefs of the leaves of many of them but that is anill-chofen term. The nameof clafs muft be equally applicable to every plant belonging to it; and how does this agree with hounds-tongue ? Borage and buglofs have rough leaves; but there are others properly of this clafs, which have them altogether {mooth. Nature has conneéted thefe plants by a fimilarity even in their fmalleft parts; and Linnaeus, who does not allow them to conftitute a diftin& clafs, is obliged by his method, which regards only the threads in the Hower, to keep moft of them together. They make apart of his fifth clafs, the pewtandria: but fome of them are feparated by his attachment to thefe leffer parts; and with the reft he has mixed in the fameclafs plants fo unlike in nature, that boys muft laugh to fee them brought together. The coffee tree and the honey/ickle, night- foade and buckthorn, join with borrage and buglo/s to make the clafs of the pentandria. DAV WeSueO WNebal, Pz:0 RE T:GSN Broad-leaved Pulmonaria. Pulmonaria latifolia. POSS & 2 The root is compofed of long ard brown fibres. The leaves are very numerous, and fpread themfelves into a thick tuft: they are fupported on footftalks ; and they are broad, short, fharppointed, not ferrated at the edges, of a deep green colour, and very agreeably feattered over with white irregular {pots. The <s are numerous, low, not branched, and of a pale green: they are eight or ten inches in height 5 and their leaves ftand irregularly, and are broad andfhort. ‘The flowers growin tufts at the tops of the G E N S.PxbsGol E 8, ftalks, and refemble cow/lips in form: they are of a delicate red when in the bud, but of a fine celeftial blue when open. The feeds are oblong and obtufe. It is a native of the woods of Germany, and flowers in April. C. Bauhine calls it Symphytum maculofum, five Pulméonaria latifolia, culofa, Others, Pulmonaria max It is good in obftruations of the vifcera, and in the jaundice. The leaves and frefh tops boiled in ale are a familiar medicine among the peafants of Germany in this diforder, and very fucceffs ful. U.S Il. HOUNDS-TONGUE. CYNOGLOSSUM. ‘HE floweris formed of a fingle petal: it is tubular at the bafe, and divided into five obtufe fegments at the edge, andits opening is clofed by five little fcales. ‘The cup is formed of a fingle leaf, and is divided into five fegments at the edge’ The feeds are four after every flower : No38. a FE they |