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Show “426 BR HT SiH Ther greyifh green colours thofe on the upperpart of the plant are cut into longer and yet 'flen dererparts. Candy Daucus. Daucus Creticus. A rane a The root is long, fmall, and hung with ~ fewfibres. and a The ftalks are weak, flender, ftriated, i | foot high. nuTheleaves at the bottont are divided into of a merous, narrow fegments ; and they are GB The flowers are finall. and white ; and the feeds are oblong, rough, and brown. It is a native of the Halt, and flowers in July G. Bauhine calls-it Daucus Alpinus multifids folic. Others, Daiicus Cretenfis. The feeds are carminative and diuretick. Nis S VME YL LYE Rous” PYRETHRUM. tH RB RB Asidl PELE PTO RY, GeIRMI aGAB eaelaaos UMBELLIFERUM. hute, oblong’ fegments and are of a fhining Umbelliferous Pellitory. Pyrethrum umbelliferum. La bata The root is long, flender, and hung with a few fibres : it is of a brown. colour, and avery acrid tafte. The ftalkis ftriated, and three feethigh; divided into numerous branches, and of a pale ‘ green. The leaves are very beautifully formed of mi- E HERBAL XVII. either atithe HE flowers are placed in umbells on fybdivided. branches sandthere are no leaves, bafes of the principal orleffer divifions. The cup is very minute. Each floweris compofed of ted. five oblong petals. The feeds are oblong, and lightlyftria Linnzeus places this among the peatandria with the preceding, G BRITISH ES green. The flowers are fmall and white, andthe feeds are brown. It\is a native of: the Eaft, and fome ‘of\the warmer parts of Europe, and flowers in July. C, Bauhinecalls it Pyr name moft others have copie The root held in the mouth is good againft the toothach, as that of the riggt U S tory of Spain. XVII, BLACK MASTERWORT. Bye TR AN eT. HE flowers are placedin fmall umbells, upon a few principal branches, with-numerous fubdivifions; and at the bafe of each ftandifeveral little leaves! The cup is divided by five dents at the edge. Each flower is compofed of five oblong petals, fplit at the top. ‘The feeds are oblong, and covered with a;kind of cruft. Linnzus places this with the reft of the umbelliferous plants among the pentandria, the flowers in all having five filaments, Black Mafterwort. DPE Ga. “9 The toot is black, and compofed of numerous fibres. The firlt leaves are placed on’ Jong, redifh foorftalks ; and aré divided to the bafe into five parts: thefe are oblong, ferrated, fharp-pointed, and of a deep green on the upperfide, anda yellowifh green underneath: The ftalks are numerous, ftriated, weak, and two feet high, The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the root; but they are fmaller, and have fewer divifions, and thofe placed lefs regularly. The flowers. terminate the branches in. fatal umbells ; which are furrounded at the bafe by peculiar kind, of, leaves, forming a general cup andthefe are sedith within. The flowers themfelves are ofa greenifh white. CL, AyS) SeriRV: Plants whofe flower is compofed of numerous flofeules, placed within a common cup, and forming a kind of head; each flofcule being tubular, and the cup formed of numerous fcaly parts. Te is not in thewhole compafs of Nature a clafs more obvioufly or more diftinétly cha- racterifed than this. and coltsfoot ftand in the fame clafs; and are united underit. with the violet and balfam. eScatactesheets each aa eae ceceeeeate Bhoodthesity The END of the TWENTY-FOURTH CLASS. Ewomentg Seelam Natives of BRITAIN. Thofe of which one or more fpecies dre natutally wild in this countty. The feeds ate {mall-and brown. The whole plant has an aromatick tafte. It is a native of the mountainous parts of Europe, and flowers in June. C.Bauhineccalls it Helleborus niger fanicala folie major. Others, Aftrantia nigra. The rootis a violent purge. The head fhewsitfelf to the moft flight obferver as diftinét from what is feen in.all other kinds: andit is univerfal in thefe. j From this Mr. Ray was induced to range them in one genus, under the name of capitate; and fo conformable to herfelf is Nature, even in the leaft points, that the Linnzan fyftem; eftablithed upon the threads in the flower, does not feparate them. That author places them in his clafs of fymgenefia; the character of which is, that the buttons at the fummit of the threads coalefce, and form a cylinder. All the capitate plants have this peculiar character; but thoughit feryes to keep them together, it does not anfwer the fecond purpofe of the diftingtions in fcience, which is, to feparate all others from them; for the other compofite-flowered plants, the /ow-zbi/tle, and fuch others, having their buttons coalefcent in the fame form, are united by that character with the capitate plants. Thus Linnzus has therefore of neceffity, according to his method, arranged them: the 7bifles Giwh N°} GENTLE Uy .8 THISTLE. ClpAR SvlC. M. Eee general cup is formed of many feales, and {wells out in the middle. The flowers in this are numerous ; and eachis formed ofa fingle petal, of a tubular thape, very natraw at the bafe, and wide at the mouth, where it is divided into five fegments. The feeds are oblong, and weak prickles. Winged with down; andthe leaves of the plant arefet with very flight, Linnaeus places this among the fywgenefia ; the filaments converging, and the buttons being united tha cylindrick form. 1. Englif, |