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ROSACEiE. XVIIL Agrimonia. XIX. Aremoxia. XX. Brayera. XXL Neurada. XXIL Rosa. 



10 A. RE* PENS (Lin. spec. 875.) hairy ; leaves pinnate ; leaflets 

 ;oblong, terminal one sessile ; spikes nearly sessile ; petals 3 times 

 the length of the calyx ; bracteas length of flowers ; stipulas 

 length of the internodes of the stem, and almost covering it; 

 roots creeping ; fruit hispid. 7^ . H. Native of Armenia. 

 Like yi, Eupatbriay but the stems are thicker, the spikes more 

 dense, the flowers sessile, and the fruit larger. 



Cr^epwg-rooted Agrimony. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1737. PL 2 ft. 



Cult. Plants of easy culture. They will grow in any com- 

 mon soil, and are readily increased by dividing at the root. 



XIX. AREMO^NIA (altered from ^^rmon 

 no. 768. Agrimonioides, Tourn. inst. t. 155. 

 pot. 17. Spallanzknia, Poll, giorn. fis. pav. 1816. p. 187. with a 



a). Neck. elem. 

 Amonia, Nestl. 



XXL NEURADA (revpov, 



neuron, a nerve ; in reference to 

 the plaited nerved leaves). Juss. 

 in Lin. gen. 587. Gaertn. fruct. 1. 

 p. 162. t. 32. D.C.prod. 2. p. 548. 

 Lin. syst. Decdndria, Poly- 

 gynia. Character the same as that 

 of the tribe. 



1 N. procu'mbens (Lin. spec. 

 631.) O. H. Native of Egypt, 

 Arabia, and Numidia. Forst. 

 descrip. p. 90. Lam. ill. t. 393. 

 (f. 74.3 



Procumbent Neurada. PI. tr. 



FIG. 74. 



figure. 



Tribe III 



Cult. The seeds of this plant 

 Lin. syst. Peta-Decandria^ Digynia. Involucrum calyciform, only require to be sown in a warm 



10-12-cleft. Tube of calyx oblong, with a 5-cleft bractless dry sheltered situation in the open 



limb. Petals 5. Stamens 5-10. Carpels 2. Styles terminal. ground. 



Akenia usually solitary from abortion, inclosed in the globose 



tube of the calyx, thin, membranous. Seed pendulous. ^ — An 



evergreen herb, with interruptedly impari-pinnate leaves ; leaflets 



dentately serrated, lower ones small, outer ones large. Flowers 



small, yellow, in fascicles or few-flowered corymbs. 



1 A. ageimonioIdes (D. C. prod. 2. p. 588.) 1/. H, Native 



of Italy and Carniola, in humid places. Agrimonia agrimo- 

 nioides, Lin. spec. 643. Col. ecphr. t. 144. Mor. oxon. sect. 5. * 



t. 34. f. 9. Stem leaves ternate. 



SEiE 



Agrimonia-Uke Aremonia. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1739. PI. 

 Cult. See Agrimonia for culture and propagation. 



numerous. 



foot. 



XX. BRAYE'RA (in honour of Dr. Brayer, the discoverer 

 of the plant). Kunth, in Brayer, not.' Svo. 1824. Paris, diet. 

 class, hist. nat. 2. p. 501. with a figure, D. C. prod. 2. p. 588. 



Lin. syst. Dodccdndrm, Digynia. 

 turbinate tube, which is silky on the 



segments 



Calyx permanent, with a 

 outside; limb 10-parted, 

 oblong ; the 5 inner ones 



Carpels 2, free, in the bottom of the calyx. 



nom. ros. 

 Rhodophora, Neck. elem. 784. 



Lin. syst. Icosdndria, Polygynia. 

 as that of the tribe. 



spatulate and shorter; throat pervious. Petals 5, scale-formed, inst. 1. p. 636. t. 408. 

 small, linear, deciduous. Stamens 15-20, nearly equal, shorter mon. Svo. 1820. Pronv. 

 than the petals. 



1-2-ovulate. Styles exserted, crowned by subpeltate crenatcly 



lobed stigmas. Seed solitary, pendulous. — A tree. Peduncles 



branched, and clothed with soft hairs, flexuous, and bracteate ; 



flowers 4 together ; bracteas roundish-elliptic. Leaves 

 known. 



1 B. anthelmi'ntica (Kunth, 1. c.) Tj . F. Native of Abys- 

 sinia, where it is called cotz or cahotz. The flowers of this tree 



roses). D. C. prod. 2. p. 596.— Rosae, Juss. gen. p. 353. Calyx 

 with the tube contracted at the mouth (f. 75. g*.), and with a 5- 

 parted limb(f. 75. b. f. 76. d.) ; the segments somewhat spirally 

 imbricated at the apex in aestivation, and usually pinnately divided 

 (f. 75. b. c. f. 76. d.). Petals 5 (f. 75. e. f. 76, e.). Stamens 



Carpels numerous, bony, inserted on the inside of 

 the tube of the calyx, which at length becomes baccate (f. 75./. 

 f. 76. b.\ and incloses them ; they are dry and indehiscent, bear- 

 ing each a style on the inner side. Styles exserted from^ the 

 constricted part of the calycine tube (f. 75. g.), sometimes distinct, 

 sometimes connected into a columnar style. Seeds solitary, ex- 

 albuminous, inverted. Embryo straight, with flattish cotyledons. 



Shrubs, usually with impari-pinnate leaves, serrated leaflets, 

 and with the stipulas adnate to the petiole (f. 75. a.). 



XXn. RaSA (from rhosy red, Celtic; in reference to the 

 colour of the flowers of most of the species of the rose). Tourn. 



Lam. ill. t. 440. Lindl. 



Lin. gen. 631. 



1818. mon. ross. 1824. 

 The character the same 



un- 



Sect. I. 



(L 



Leaves simple, exstipulate 



are the most powerful anthelmintic known. Upon the authority 

 of Dr. Brayer 2 or 3 doses of the infusion are sufficient to cure 

 the most obstinate case of taenia. 



Anthelmintic Brayera. 

 Cult. The tree will 



Tree. 



Fruit bristly. 



1 R. BERBERiFOLiA (Pall. uov. act. pctr. 10. p. 379. t. 10. 

 f. 5.) leaves simple, serrated ; prickles decurrent ; sepals entire. 

 T? , H. Native of Persia, near Amadan, and in fields at the 

 bottom of Mount Elwend, and in the desert of Soongaria. K. 

 simplicifolia, Salisb. hort. allert. 359. par. lond. 101. with a 



figure. 



Led, fl. ross. atl. ill. 370. Lowea conspicua, Lindl. hot. 



possibly thrive well in a mixture of reg. 1261. Petals yellow, marked with purple at the base. 



loam and peat, and cuttings will most probably root in sand un- 

 der a hand-glass. 



Tribe IL 



NEURADE^. 



Calyx 5-cleft (f. 74. a.), with a short tube, 

 adhering to the ovaries ; lobes cut, valvate in aestivation. Petals 



5 (f. 74, i.), inserted in the bottom of the calycine lobes, 

 mens 10. Styles 10. Carpels 10, connected into a 10-celled 

 capsule (f. 74. c), which is depressed at the apex, and girded 

 by the echinated calyx. Seeds solitary in the cells, bony, ob- 

 liquely pendulous. Embryo curved, with an oblique radicle and 

 oblong cotyledons. — Decumbent, fruticose, tomentose herbs, with 

 sinuately pinnatifid leaves, and small solitary axillary flowers. 

 Seeds germinating in the capsule. 



Far. a, glabra (Ser. in D, C. prod. 2. p. 602.) stipulas con- 

 nate, leaf-formed, glabrous; prickles substipular, twin. Tj . H. 

 Native of the Soongarian desert, in salt places beyond the river 

 Irtysch. — Red. et Thor. ros. 1. p. 27. 



Far.p, veluihia (Ser. mss. in D. C. prod. 2. p. 602.) stem, 



prickles, and leaves velvety ; leaflets spatulate-lanceolate ; 



Sta- prickles substipular, twin. ^2 . H. Native of Persia. 



Barberry-leaved Ro^e. Fl. Ju. Jul. Clt. 1790. Sh. lto2ft. 



Sect. IL 



branches being thickly beset with prickles). 

 Branches clothed 



the 

 S. 



Feroces (from ferox, fierce, in reference to 



Lindl. mon. p 

 with permanent tomentum. Fruit naked. 

 The plants contained in this section are a strictly natural group* 

 They are low shrubs, losing their leaves early in aotumn, an 



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