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Show The G BRETISH! HERBAL. bes U FUR Ga NAL sith 4 S XXXIV. Z SOPOT N= O'S) A. arly. The flower is papilionaceous, and hasfive petals; ie cup is fmall, and divided irregul two forming the carina. The feed-veflel is an oblong pod. The whole fhrub is covered with thorns. CommonFurz. Genifta [pinofa vulgaris. REZohh The fhrub is four or five feet high, and very {preading. Theleaves are very {mall, oblong, of a bluifh green, and fall foon after they appear in fpring. The branches are all the year cloathed with innumerable green thorns. The Hewers are large and yellow. It is common onheaths. BRET ASH: Hh Rob APE: ©. Bauhine calls it Genifta /pinofa major longi. oribus aculeis. Wehave twoother fpecies. 1. The leffer Farze, Genifta [pinofa minor. The ELLEERGSLSSOSHOHSSOSHSSSSHLORSSHOSSSSSROSSLILERO thorns are fhorter, and it flowerslater. 2. NeedleFurze, Genifta minor afpalathoides, The leaves fmall and of a faint green. Th END. of the THIRTY-THIRD CLASS. CLASS XXXIV. Plants whofé flowers and feeds are minute and fingly inconfpicuous ; and are produced on the back of their leaves. Ts area feries of plants perfeétly diftin& from all others; and they have the fortune to be kept together in the modern arrangements of botany. Their parts of fructification are too minute and obfcure to have given opportunities to thofe who favour the prefent method, to blend them amongtheother genera. Linnzus ranges them with the moffés and other fuch kinds underthe term cryptogamia. Seeetaaecheeteaches Qe era ee ee HARTS-TONGUE. PHRVEL 7 S. ‘THE plant confifts of an undivided leaf; and the feeds are difpofed in long ftreaks on the back, 1. Common Harts-tongue. Phyllitis vulgaris. AL 4.4 / rip roge ina cult of black: fibres, It is commionin wells and other damp, fhady i places. There are three varieties of this plant, which have beendefcribed as diftiné& fpecies. ng i 1. The fingered Harts-tongue, Phyllitis multifida, . . _ Th The leaves are numerous ; and each is a diftiné plant; In this the leaves are fplit into feveral ftrait fegments atthetop. 2. Crofs-jagged Harts-tongue, Phyllitis cruciata, The fegments croffing one another. And, 3. Dwarf Harts-tongue, Phy? litis minima, Twoinches high. The footftalk is fhort, blackifh, and downy. The leaf i ae eal 2 very long, -hollowed at the bale, at the end, andof a fine green. Thelines of feeds are brown. GEN US I. POL Y P.O D ¥. PO LF PR OD elgUaiee HE leaf has a naked footftalk, and is divided into long fegments. back in round fpots. N° Lip ; ES The flowers ftand on the 1. Common |