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Show Th aoe BRITISH in It is common in damp places, and flowers Jul uly, c Bauhine calls it Syaphyrum five confolida : oh majus. ; Others, Symphytum major. virtues. It is cooling, i isa plant of great gs agglutinant, and fubaftringent. Geeky ody The HERBAL. A conferve of the roots cures the fluoralbus frefh root is excellent in ;coughs A decoétionofthe ee, 4 ‘ The root, dried and and forenefs of the breaft. powdered, is good againft tharp loofeneffes, and thofe attended with bloody ftools. ess, {maller. The feeds are four; and they ftand naked. flowers, diftiné on the fame ftalk ; but they differ in flowers there are feveral threads with oblong antherz ; therze, but the rudiments of the four fucceeding feeds: ForEIGN GENERA, x There are on this plant male and female nothing except the inner parts. In the male and in the female there are no threads or anthefe have no ftyles, but only a kind of downy at thejoints furrouncftigmata, The leavesare finely divided; and they are placed many together ; ing the ftalk. growing feparate Linnzus places this among the monacia polyandria ; the male and female flowers name perupon the fame plant, and the threads in the flower being numerous. He takes away the tapterophyllon, by whichit is moft commonly known, and calls it myriophyllum. This isa namethat has been given by the old writers to many water-plants altogether different ; and we havetherefore retained the other. The fpecies of this genus are only two; andbothare natives of Britain: Gey 2. Spiked Water-Milfoil. Pentapterophyllon [picatum. Hina of very minute parts :. feveral of them grow together at each joint ; and they refemble feathers, being formed of extremely flender, oblong fegments, united at their bafe to a middle rib. The flowers are fmiall, and inconfiderable : they grow in the bofoms of the leaves from the middle to the top of the plant; and they are of a greenifh white. The feeds are oblong and fmall. It is common in fhallow rivers in many parts of England, and flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls it Millefolium aquaticum flofcu- lis ad felicrum nodes. 2 The rootis {mall and fibrous. The ftalks are flender, and of a brownifh green, a foot or two in length, and divided into branches. The leaves are numerous, and finely divided, The flowers ftand in part in the bofoms of the leaves, and in part in jointed fpikes at the tops of the branches :. thefe on the {pikes are the male flowers, and thofe in the bofoms of the leaves the female ; and thefe latter are followed eachby four naked, oblong feeds. It is found in brooks andrivers, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Milijfolium aquaticum pennatum fpicatum. Others, Myriophyllum aquaticum Spicatum, 1U .S ALK AN Eaas ee 7 yer i pe 1, Gee ei Sin ts #: Se * we a. flower is ee of a fingle petal: it is tubular at the bafe, and flightly divided at the edge into five tounded cgmen 3 and the hollow part is open, not clofed, byfcales, as in fome other genera. The cupis formed of a fingle piece: it is tubular, andis dividedinto five narrow parts at the rim. Thefeeds are four in number after every ower; and they are oblong, pointed, fmooth and hard. Linneus places this among the pentandria monogynia ; the threads in the flowerbeing five, and the fiyle fingle. He makes a ftrange confufion in the fcience in this article; for he takes away fromthis plant the name of alkanet, anchufa, which he ufes as the generical term for dug/o/s; and he places this among : . . a o the gromwells, making it a {pecies of that genus. The diitinétions are fufficient in Nature and the plant may much moreproperly retain its received and antient name. Scarlet Alkanet. Anchufa floritus rubentibus, 7056. G The root is long, thick, and of a fine glow- many fibres. The ftalk is round, upright, of a pale green, and a foot high. The leaves are finely divided, or compofed siggy Thofe of which there. is no fpecies naturally wild in this country. 5 and thefe are oblong, erett, and HE flower has no petals. ‘The cupis formed of four leaves ; and one innermoft, whichis reft the than larger is and , outermoft placed is unequal : one The root is long, creeping, and hung with HERBAL, Soo AE EP orow WATER-MILEOIL, PENTAPTEROPHYLLON. 1, Small Water-Milfoil, Pentapterophyllum minus. 15605 BRITISH ing red colour. The firft leaves are numerous, and fpread themfelves in a round tuft: they are oblong, natrow, rough, of a dufky green, and not at all indented at the edges. The ftalks are numerous, round, hairy, divided into branches,. and ‘a foot high. The leaves are placed alternately on them ; and they are oblong, narrow, of a deep green, and hairy. The flowers are numerous, and very beautiful : they ftand in long feries at the tops ofall the Gove’ TN branches ; and they are large, and of a glowing fcarlet colour. The feeds are fmall and hard. It is a native of the Eaft, but is found alfo in feveral of the warmer parts of Europe. It flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhine calls it Anchufa puniceis florid Others, Auchufa vulgaris, and. Anchufa off rum. The root is aftringent, but is not much ufed as a medicine. It gives fcarlet tinge to oil, and is therefore employed for various purpofes where a fine colour is required, without any great virtues, Us I: TOR INS OL’ BE. The virtues of thefe plants are unknown. AE LT OP RO P LOM, HEflower is compofed of afingle petal: it is tubular at the bottom, dividedintofive irregular fegments at the rim, andhas the opening covered with five little fealy appendages, which conThe cup is formedofa fingle piece: it is tubular, diverge together fo as to form ki vided at the edge into five fegm d remains when the flower is fallen. The feeds are four, and cup, which remains unaltered. of an oval figure: they ftand na Linnzeus places this among the pentandria monogynia , the threads in the flower being five, and the ftyle fingle, 1. Great Turnfole. Heliotropium majus. GEsG7 Theroot is long, thick, and hard. The ftalk is upright, divided into branches, and about eight inches high: itis hairy, h llow andof a pale ¢& The leaves are placed irregularly, and have long footftalks : they are oblong, broad, obtufe, not indented, and ofa pale greencolour. The flowers ftand at the tops of all the branches in long, flender fpikes, intermixed with little, ly leaves: they are {mall and white; es turn back at the ends, twit 1oufe-ear fcorpion-grafs, Is are grey, hard, and 5H |