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Show The BRITISH HERBAL, 1. Large Duckweed. Lenticula major. sly Gp AZAD The plant confifts of a fingle leaf, which floats Wehave two other {pecies. upon the water: it is roundifh, but irregularly 1. Common Duckweed, Lenticula vulgaris. waved; and of a fine green, tinged in fome parts with red. 2. Three-cornered-leaved Duckweed, Lenticule aquatica teifulca, ivy form, principally near the edges ofthe leaves. Cc minute and fingly Plants whofe flowers and feeds are not placed on the back of the teaves. IHE flowers and feeds are colleéted into rounded heads, which are arranged together in an ovaj inconfpicuous, and are fpike. The fingle heads have manyridges, and they fplit along thefe when ripe. 1. Great Water Horfetail. Equifetum paluftre majus. 7 J IY The plant is three feet high. @ The-ftalk isthollow, jointed, and of a whitifh green. TF ath, Wh The leaves ftand circularly at the joints; and oF they are flender, and of a deep green. The club of flowersis brown. ADDER’s TONGUE: Ophiogloffum vulgare. BOYtS The plant confifts of a fingle leaf and a fpike. footThe leaf is fupported on a long, green e, {talk ; and is of an oval form, a flefhy fubftanc ae and a pale green. The fpike is green at firft, but as it ripens it grows brownith. G It is common in meadowsin April. , feu C. Bauhine calls it Olphioglofum primum ¥ -E N : vulgatum. The fpike is fometimes fplit, or double: in this cafe it has been fuppofed a diftin& fpecies. t The leaves boiled in lard make an excellen The root is fibrous. i The plantis eight inches high. Theleaf is beautifully formed of round pinne; G E N g. Leffer Marth Horfetail, Wehave eleven other {pecies. 2, Corn Horferail, Equifetum arvenfe longioribus Jfetis, The bafe is long, and of a pale green, 3: Naked, painted Horfetail, Equifetum nudum variegatum. Early in {pring in the north of England. 4, Wood Horfetail, Equifetum fylvaticum tenuiffi- Equifetum paluftre minus. The leaves fhort, and of a deep levius. The ftalks jointed andfoft. green. 10. Smooth, naked Horfetail, Zquifetum nudum 11. Rough, naked Horfetail, Equiferum nudum junceum, The ftalks harfh to the touch. 12. Branched, naked. Horfetail,. Equifetum nudum ramofum, Of a pale green. Wehave it in the north of England in dry ae paftures, minor J° C. Bauhine calls it Lunaria racemofa vulgaris. $s Ill. DUCKW,EE D. LOR NOT BNC I AE | ed p lant : they are form HERE are hermaphrodite and female flowers upon the fame minute odite ng petals. In the hermaphr a-like of a rounded cup, whichburfts at the fide ; and have with into a roun d feed-vefiel, flow -s the rudiment of the fruit fades; and in the female it ripens a point, Containing numerous minute feeds. x. Large f Nii JU, 8 Vv. CHARA. ' ! clufter and the ftalk is terminated by a branched | of brown feed-vefiels. U E Il. leaf, and a ftalk fupporting a clufter of ferrated feed-veffels. "THE plant confit s ofa fingle Lunaria racemofa. 2 Ae} hu bb felis. G Ugs LUNARIA. LZ tenfe longiffimis Jetis. The whole of a whitifh green. cooling ointment. MOONW ORT. Moonwort: The bafe brown, the reft of 4 7, Many-headed Marth Horfetail, Equifetum pas C. Bauhine calls it Equifecum paluftre longioribus bafe of the d receptacle, rifing on a ftalk from the sh {E feeds are arranged in a double ferrate Adder’s Tongue: mis fetis. fine green. AO7G 29 5. Procumbent Wood Horfetail, Eguifetum procumbensfylvaticum fetis ano verfi dif/pofitis. 6. Long-leaved Marth Horfetail, Equifetum paluftre tenuiffimis et longiffimis fetis. liftre minus polyftachion. 8. Long, pale-leaved Horfetail, Lquifetum pra- It is common in marfhy places. OPHIOGLOSSUM. leaf. ie £ QU 1 8 F-U W, SRELLLOPSROSHS SS ee Us The leaf fomewhat of the HORSET ALL, XXXV. 5 LAYS The leaves fmaller, all green, and the fibres longer. The fibres are two or three, fhort and {mall. The flowers are extreamly minute, and grow CRON 538 It is common on ponds and ditches. C. Bauhine calls it Lenticula palufiris major. HE flower is extreamly minute. It confifts only of a cup formed of two little leaves; and is fucceeded by a fingle, oval feed, contained in a thin cruft, mimicking a capfule or feed- “ee The growth of the plant refembles the horfetail, jointed and furrounded at the joints with leaves, 12 Grey, brittle Chara, Chara cinerea fragilis. Theroot is fibrous. o ftalks are numerous, and three inches high, ; The leaves are flender, and furr ound them at the joints, which are plac ed very clofe on the Upper part of the ftalk, a flowers are inconfider able. ‘e he whole Plant is of a grey ifh colour, and tittle. : is common on bogs, and fome times in ponds. ay calls it Chara major fubcinerea fragilis. Wehave four other {pecies. t Stink; ‘ ; . king, brittle Chara, Chara vulgaris5 fetida. ©mmon under water in’ ditches. 2. Prickly Chara, Chara major caulibus [pinofis. In boggy places: the ftalks twifted and prickly. 3. Tender Chara, Chara minor caulibus et foliis tenuiffimis. Of a greyith green colour. 4. Pellucid tough Chara, Chara tranflucens minor flexilis, Of a greenith colour, and notbrittle. To thefe, which, as they have no known vir- tues, demand in this work no larger notice ; yet with which, as they are Englifh vegetables, we would not leave the reader wholly unacquainted, we fhall add a fhort notice of the moffes, mufhrooms, and fubmarine plants. Thefe are fubjects which might alone fill volumes of curiofity. We fhall not extend this work beyond its deftined limits by a large account of them ; but in a few words, with the affiftance of their figures, give a general idea of their feveral forms. MOSSES, ail i net Ha |