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Show • 32~ The Hijlory of PLAN T S. and three or four broad, finuated at the edges, but not very deeply, and fold ed, as it were, very prickly at the edges, and of a pale w~itilh blue green. The ~alk is .round, thick, tough, very much branched, and of a blm.lh-green : the leaves ~:>n It are hke the radical ones but fmall : the flowers ftand at the tops of the branches, m round clufiers furrounded 'by prickly leaves; they are fmall. and wh.iti.lh. . . . ' It is common on our fea-coafi:s. C. Bauhme calls It, ErynglUm mant1mum. 2. Eryngium foliis JPinojis laciniatis, caulibus ramoji./Jimis. The prichly, laciniated-leaved Eryngium , with very much branched .ftalks. <tonuuon ~tpngo. The root is a foot long, and as tbick as a man's finger; the radical leaves are fix or eight inches long, and deeply laciniated, even down almoft to the middle rib, in many places, and divided, as it were, into fo many lobes; they are ferrated at the edges, and the denticles all terminate in very fl1arp prickles : the fialk is firiated round, and tough; it grows to two feet high, and fpreads fo much into branches every way, that the whole plant frequently affumes a globular figure. The leaves ftand alternately; they refemble the radical ones, and are of a bluilh-green colour : the flowers ftand in round clufters at the tops of the ftalks, and are [mall and white. It is frequent in corn-fields in moft part of Europe; but in England we have it only in three or four places, as in Northamptonlhire and Devonlhire. C. Bauhine calls it, Eryngium vulgare; others, Eryngium campefire. It's root is a deobftruent and peclo-: ral; it is candied with fugar, and dried for ufe in decoctions, &c. 3. Eryngium foliis radicalibus ovalibus planis crenatis, capitulis pedunculatis . . The oval, plane-leaved Eryngium , with pedunculated heads. The:root is very long; the radical leaves are two inches long, an inch broad, rounded at t_he end, and narrower to the bafe ; the ftalk grows to feven inches high, and is very ramofe : the flowers are fmall and white. . It is a native of Ruffia. C. Bauhine calls it, Erynginm planum minus. The other fpecies to be mentioned are, 1. The teafel-headed, Alpine Eryngium. 2. The blue, mountain Eryngium. 3· The dwarf, fpinofe, finuated Eryngium. 4· -:r:he pfyllium-leaved Eryngium. 5· The fiinking, American Eryngium. 6. The ~ormculate, Portugal Eryngium. 7· The multifid-leaved, Cretic Eryngium. 8. The lade-headed, Cretic Eryngium. 9· The fiellate Eryngium, with deeply divided, pale green leaves. 10. The tall, broader-leaved, ftellate-headed Eryngium. H Y D R 0 C 0 T Y L E. T HE general umbel is compofed of four fe.ffile flowers, and a fingle umbel in the center ; the partial urpbel confifts of four· feffile flofcufes. The general involu~ rum is comp~fed of f~ur le~ves, and th<: P.F~ialmvolu.c!um of four leaves alfo; there ~s fcarce_ any vifible penanthm~ : the umverfal corolla IS uniform in figure, though not m fituatwn ; t~e fingle corolla IS formeR of .. fiv~ .... ?vato-~cute, patent petals : the fiamina are five f~bulated filament:, .lhorter t~an the corolla : the antherc:e are very [mall ; the germen Is erect, comprefied, .and orbiculated, and firnds' under the proper receptacle: the fiyles are tw?, fubulated and very .lho~t; the fttgm,ata are fimple : the fru it is orbicular, erect, and Is comp?fed of two cowpreifed an~ femi~orbi~ular feeds. , I. Hydrocotyle foliis peltatis orbi.c.ulat.ir U(1t/ique emar-ginatis. . , . . , The orbiculated, peltated, and every way emargina-ted- leaved lf:ydrocotyle. , · ' ',. .®atfiJ 10tn~ , nplbott. The root i~ .oblong, pender, and creeping;, the ftal~s are procumbent, and take root at every JOmt, fendmg down clufters of long fibres ; th~y never rife at all from the Tbe Hiflory of P L A N T S~ ~2I the earth; they are round and jointed; at an inch, or more, difiance from every joint there rife three or four pedicles, of three inches, or more, in height ; at the top of ~ach ftands ,a fin&le l~af, round and finuated, or emarginated all ~ound the edges; it IS about an mch m dtameter, of a pale green colour, and the pedtcle is inferted into the center of it. From the fame fialks, near the bafe of the pedicles of the leaves there rife other pedicles, of half an inch long, which fufiain the flowers, thefe are of'a pale reddi.lh colour, and very fmall. , , Th: plant is co~mon ~ith us in da~p places) and is. fufpecte? of hurting> 1he~p tliaf eat of It, whence Its Enghlh name Whzte Rot. J. Bauhme calls It, Cotyledon aqqatica, 2. Hydrocotyle foliis orbiculatis integerrimis, jloribus ·minimis. · The orbiculate, whole-leaved Hydrocotyle, with very Jmall }lowers. '1 . ' The fialks creep on the ground, and take root at every joint; they are r<;>und, pur-ple, and of two feet in length : the leaves are perfectly round, two inches and a half in diameter, even at the edges, of a deep green~ and fiand on pedicles of about two inches high, which are inferted into their center. The flowers are· fmaller than in the former fpecies, and of a fi1ow white. ' It is frequent in the Savannahs of North America. Plumier calls it, Hydrocotylc folio umbilicato maximo. The other fpecies are, J. The Afarum-leaved Hydrocotyle, called Afarina minor. 2. The nymphc:ea-leaved Hydrocotyle. Clefs the Fifth. Order tbe Fir.fl~ Divijion the Fifth. I • I ' t I Pentandria Digynia, with two naked feeds, and with an ttniveifal and a partial umbel. . , , . SAN I C U LA. T H E general umbel is formed o~ a very few radii, ufually but four; the partial umbel of very numerous and thtck-fet ones. The general involucrum is dimidiated, and placed outwardly ; the partial one furrounds the whole, and is .lhorter than the flofcules : the perianthium is fcarce vifible ; the general corolla is uniform ; the £ngle corolla confifts of five compreffed, inflex, bifid petals: the ftamina are five fim- · ple, e;ect filaments, twice as long as the flofcules : the antherc:e are roundi.lh ; the germen IS rough, an~ placed under the proper receptacle: the ftyles are two, fubulated ~nd reflex; the :ft!gmata are acute : the fruit is oval and acute, rough and divifible mto two parts: the feeds are two, convex and rough on one fide, and fmooth and plane on the other. 1. Sanic~la foliis. radicalibus Jimplicibus, jlrfculis omnibus fe./Jilibus. The Santcula, wtth the radical leaves Jimple, and all the ~aniclt. flowers fe./Jile. The root is compofed of a number of thick fibres black on the outfide and white 'Yithin ; .the radical leaves ftand on long pedicles, ;nd are of a roundi.lh 1 figure, but fmuated m five places, ~nd indented all :ound the edges; they are of a dark green, of a gloffy fur face, _and tl11c~. The ftalk IS round, fmooth, and a foot high; it has often but one leaf on It, fome~1mes two, and at it's top has a finall umbel; the flowers are mode.rately large ~nd whtte, or of a pale fle.lh colour. . It IS co~mon m our woods. C. Bauhine calls it, Sanicula officinarum ; J, Bau .. hme, Samcula five diapenfia. It is efteemed an excellent vulnerary. 4N ~. Sani· |