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Show The 394 HERBAL. BRITISH The ftalks are numerous and weak: they {pread themfelves every way upon the ground; and they are fix or eight inches long, anddividedinto many branches. i The leaves are placed alternately on thor footftalks ; and they are fmall, bro Aninfufion of the plant given in large quan- fhort, of a beautiful green, andalir tities operates by urine,;and is good againft the The flowers are fmall and white ; gravely The juice applied outwardly takes away are placed, as in the others, in longc warts. It is common in the fouth of F; flowers in June. 2. Procumbent Turnfole. C. Bauhinecalls it Heliotropium fupinum minus. WSGu Others, Heliotropium fi The root is long, flender, and blackifh. It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, = and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it Heliotropium majus Diofcori dis, Others, Heliotropium majus, and Heliotropium vulgare. BR eT SH GRSSHROSGOH G E Nae Eig Or Ni Bitoy: a HE RB OACL, ESTOEPaGRa Il. WieOr Rep. CL :AiSsSs*XX. Cone TN ETE. a flower is formed ofa fingle petal. ‘The lower part is fmall and tub } 4 alfo hollowed, but larger, andat the rimis divided lightly into five ‘S$ ROUOW 18 open ©The cu I > is formed 1% : there are none of thofe little fcales, > which clole it in many other genera. 3} of a fingle piece; but it is deeply divided into five fegments equal in fize, and pointed. The feeds are four after every flower; and they are enclofed in two loofe fkins, whichare rough ndhard. Linnzus places this among the pentandria monogynia ; the filaments in the flower be he ftyle fivle fingle. Gnele the Great Honeywort. Cerinthe major. JASE, + 9 The root is long, thick, and white. The ftalks are numerous, round, flefhy, and a foot and half high: they are of a pale and fomewhat bluith green, The leaves are placed alternately at fimall diftances ; and they ufually hang drooping: they are large and broad. Their colour is a bluifh green, and they are {potted with white: they are broadeft at the bafe, and obtufe at the endThe flowers are large ; and they are placedin Gre. NU confiderable numbers uponflender branc! from the bofoms of the leaves: they in the upper part, and purple at the tops of the branchesthat bear them 1 downfpirally, as in the moufe-earfcorpi It is a native of the fouthern parts of E and flowers in July, C.Bauhinecalls it Cerinthe flore flavo afperia. This is the plant celebrated by the old Romans as the favourite of the. bees. The flowercontains a great deal of honey-juice. S feveral together at every joint, and expanded like the rays of a ftar. HIS is a clafs diftinguifhed with great certainty by Nature, and by veryobvious characters. Mr. Ray has followed, as ufual, her fteps, and kept the plants diftin& fromall others, in a peculiarclafs, under the name of Lerbefiellate, the fellate plants : but they are blended among many others by the modern writers ; they not admitting the difpofition of leaves, howeverfinr ; : gular, into the numberof claffical, or even generical diftinétions. ee er, and no The confequences of each method are obvious. In Mr. Ray thefe plants are a they, are feparated others are mixed among them, orjoined to them: in Linnzus, and his followers, error could ig into various claffes and in each joined with plants the moft unlike that ftudious put ten clafles off, chofen : cleavers is ranked with /cabious among the tetrandria 5 and crofwort is with pellitory of the wall and orach. ‘This confirms, like the re{t, the impropriety of that method. j pSSRaaah IV, TOURNEFORTIAZ. HEflower is formedof a fingle petal. Plants whofe flower is formed of a fingle petal, divided deeply into four fegments, and fucceeded by two Jecds 5 and whofe leaves are placed Natives of BRITAIN. The lower lip is tubular, and of an oval figure ; andit thence fpreads into a broad rim, which is cut lightly into five broad, bi ut pointed fegments. 3 2 ‘i The cupis formed alfo of a fingle piece, divided deeply into five feements. TI 1¢ feeds are fou they are furroundedwith a fkin, andfeparated by a pulpy fubftance. Linnzus places this among the pentandria monogynia ,; the filaments in th he flower being fiv the ftyle fingle. Nature wantons in the characters of this plant : its fruit approaches to the nature ofa berty; while all the other parts, and in this the number of feeds, correfpond withthe reft, Oval-leaved Tournefortia. Tournefortia foliis ovatis integris. JPG. The flowers ftand in tong feries on the tops the ftalks and branches, which divide for The root is long, divided, and furnithed with purpofe into numerous twigs: they run only y many fibres. aT he ftall is woody, and yet weak ; but it will climb to a great length » when there are trees or buthes to fupport ic ; it is of a pale green, and {mooth. : The leaves are placed alternately ; and they are large, oblong, of an oval form, fharp-pointe d, not at all dented at the edges ; of a beautiful deep reer on h green the upperce: fide, and of a blue green underneath, one fide of thefe; and they are fmall and yellow. It is frequent in the woods of South Americas and flowers in July. ; Plukenet calls it Virga aurea Americana [rt tefcens glabra foliis fubtus cefis. But this very improper generical name. Plumiercal the genus Pittonia, and Linneus To bothafter the name of the author of the J tiones vei herbarie. The END of the TWENTY-SECOND CLASS. g i naturally wiild in this kingdom. i there iis one or more fpecies Thofe of which Gane. NST eS eee: CR OS Saw Ogkel. CRUCLAT & ; ; 1 exsn upon ir a gens : ae peeog "THE flowers are of two kinds, male and hermaphrodite i - ate : divicic 1s and petal, one of formed is it fingle on its ftall dite flower fta to this, but in its place a rudiment i fharp-pointed feements. There is fcarce any cup four ova andfo clofely with a tough covered oki: feeds, of 2 fkin, bas pair a into ripens the fruit, which afterwards ofwar z iment of the other on whic! . ru the UpeH joined, that they feem but one. The male flowers are placed which fegments, four ivided uni uncertainly into three or Be aac ats 7 divided 5 petal, ; of a fingle ak. ‘eachfide ; and eachis formed ripens. never 1t but er; ; e 2 it, as the other fruit uni derneath it, Es 2 fruit ee at ae ir i Thihis has a rudiment of a te. are oval and in fe though flowers, saniaae P diftinét the feveral : 2 Ne siar _monecia; ai among the tp innzus places scars this as hermap and male by being the feeds sreenati of regnation t r ti and papponsthe plant, fame yet growing on the dite ones. Croffwort. |