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Show 388 The BRITISH DIVISION I. BR rr StH 1. Common Vipers Buglofs. Echium vulgare. GEESE LO The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with a few fibres. The firft leaveslie upon the ground in a round of a clutter: they are oblong, moderately broad, dufky green, and covered with ‘roughhairs. The ftalk is round, upright, and a foot and half high: it is not much branched 5 and its ground-colour is a bright greens but it is ufually fpotted very beautifully with red, and is very hainy. The leaves are placed alternately on it; and they are oblong and narrow, of a pale green; hairy, and fharp-pointed 5 and there ufually ftand many young onesin their bofoms. The flowers are large, numerous, and of a very fine blue, with more or lefs tinge of redifh or purplilh as they are more or lefs opened. The ftyle in the middle is white, and the buttons on the threads in the flower are red. Thefe flowers are placed in feveral feries along the tops of the ftalks upon flender, bending, or curling branches. The feeds are fmall and brown. It is common by way-fides, and flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls it Echinum vulgare; a name copied by moft others. The VSPE CTE Ss It is a native of our fea-coafts ; where it grows on the. barren beach, on rocks, and fromthe walls made to keep in the fea. It flowers jn July. C. Bauhine calls it Lycopfis; a name moft others have followed. Some, Echii altera fpecies, 3. Small-flowered Wall Buglofs, Echium ramofum flore parvo. The root is long and flender. The ftalk is round, upright, hairy, divided into many branches, and of pale green colour, The leaves are placed irregularly on it; and they have all the rudiments of branchesin their Gy flowers in Auguft. Ray calls it Echium alterum, five Lycopfis Aw glica. Ay 4. Sea-Buglofs, Z7Gis:./ Buglofium maritimum procumbens, The root is long, ‘Nlender, white, and hung with a few ftrageling fibres, Theftalks are numerous, and theylie in great E 2N a yon HERB AL. U GERMAN Vas V. MyAGDAW O R T. Be R,. GO wey 0. THE floweris formedof a fingle petal; and is tubular at the bafe, and expanded and divided into five obtufe fegments at the edge. The opening is covered up with five {mall fcales. The cup is formed ofa fingle leaf, and is divided into five fegments; between each of which there are placed two little jaggs. The feeds are fours and they are oblong: they have no capfule, but-are contained in this fingular cup, which becomes very rge, and clofes upon them, fo-as to form two parallels, and fhewfive of the jaggs in a very peculiar and regular manner. Linneus places this among the pentandria monogynia ; the threads in the fower being five, and the ftyle fingle. It is a fingular genus; of which there is but one known fpecies ; andthat, though called German, is a native of Britain. bofoms in the lower part, and long fhoots ia the upper. The flowers ftand at the extremities of the branches ; and are fmall, and of a purplifh colour. It is common about our fouthern coafts, and ALB RW Ste German Madwort, Afperugo. CES SM The root is long, thick, and furnifhed ;with numerous fibres, The ftalks are long, but. weak: they crawl upon the ground, if not fupported, and runto the length of a yard or more; they are flender, rough, and divided into many branches, ‘Theleaves are oblong, and confiderably broad: they ftand fingly andalternately on the lower parts of the ftalks; but toward the top two, three, or fouroften rife together: they are hairy, and of a bright green. they rife from the bofoms of the leaves: thefe, from their fmallnefs, are ‘not confpicuous ; but when they are fallen, the cups clofing over the feeds, {well out into a great ‘bignefs. It is found on dry grounds in our weftern counties not uhfrequently; and in fome other places. It flowers in July, and the feeds ripen in Anguft, C. Bauhine calls, it Byglofium fylveftre caulibus procumbentibus. Others, Afperugo, Tt is faid to be good ‘againft diforders of the nerves; but its virtues are not eftablifhed upon any good authority. The flowers are fmall, and of a deep blue: part upon the ground: they are round, ofa pale 2. Wall-Buglofs. green, and not much branched. Echium mural. SLES. 77 The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with a few ftraggling fibres: The ftalk is round, upright, a foot or more in height, and very much branched. The leaves are placed alternately, and have no footftalks : they are oblong, broad at the bafe, fmaller all the way to the point, ofa pale green, and hairy. The flowers ftand in confiderable number at the extremities of the branches; and they are large, and of a beautiful blue. ‘The feeds are irregularly thaped and pointed. DIVISION ‘HER BAL. I. The leaves are placed alternately : they are ob joined to the ftalk by a narrowbafe. the bofoms of the leaves: they are {mall and blue. The feeds are roundifh, but pointed, and of a pale brown. We have it about our fouthern coafts. It flowers in Auguft. Raycalls it Echium marinum. Thevirtuesof thefe plants are unknown. Sop BACH |S, African fhrabby Echium. The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches s Echium Africanumfruticofum, WEE.1? and they are large and beautiful: their general colour is a fine fky-blue; but they are red at the bottom. The feeds are large and brown. It is a native of Africa, and flowers in July. Van Royen and others call it Echiumcaulejruticofo, E iN Wiese Bb Oc RA Gok, The flowers ftand in confiderable number at BOL the tops of the branches ; and fomerife alfo from EG RE GN The root is woody and fpreading. The ftem is firm, hard, woody, and divided into manybranches, The-leaves are placed irregularly ; and they are very numerous: they are oblong, narrow, and ofa beautiful green, ; G long, broadeft in the middle, fharp-pointed, and RR eG RO, HE flower is formed of a fingle petal: it is tubular at the bafe, and thence expands into a large breadth, and is deeply divided into five fegments. The opening is edged withfive {mall protuberances, which are nipped at the ends. The cup is formed of a fingle piece, and divided into five fegments. The feeds are four after ever flower ; and they are rough.’ They have ‘no capfule; but the cup enlarges, and defends them. Linnzeus places this among the pentandria monogynia the threads in the flower being five, and the flyle fingle. He joins it with fome other plants not allied properly to it. OF the borage, diltinétly fo called, and thus defined, ‘there is! but oneiknown {pecies. Common Borage. Borago vulgaris. a, Safe The root is long, thick, divided, and fur- nithed with many fibres, The firft leaves are oblong, broad, of a pale green, hairy, andvery rough. The ftalk is thick, round, juicy, and of a pale Steen: it is hairy, and towards the top is divided into numerous branches. The leaves ftand irregularly on it; and have hhort, flefhy footftalks: they are broad, and tough to the touch. N° XXXIx, The flowers are very numerous, large, and of a celeftial blue. The feeds are oblong andpointed. It is wild in our northern counties, and common every where in gardens. It flowers in June. C.Bauhine calls Bugloffum latifolium five Borago, Others, Boraga bortenjis. The flowers are celebrated for their cordial virtues: but they are not much.ufed now in medicine. |