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IMPERATORIA OSTRUTHIUM. COMMON MASTERWORT. 
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STNONTMA.. Imp 
Pharni, Ediiib, y. Bauh. iii. i^y 
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Gerard emac. loor. ■ HaL Stir p. Helv, No. 805. Imp 
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Bauh, Pi 
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ICO 
Imp 
f 
five Aftrantia vulo-aris. 
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Park, Theat. 942. Common Maflerwort, ^^y^;??^ erroneoujly Pellitoiy 
j^ 
of Sp 
Rail Hift, Ac2)^' Maglftran 
Gamer, Epit, 59 
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peratoria Oftruthium. Withering, Bot, Arrang, Lightfoot Flor. S 
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Gki/s Pentandria. ' Ord, Digynia. L, Gen, Plant, 2)S^' 
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EJf, Ch, pruBus fubrotundus, compreifus, medio gibbus, marglne 
. cmd;us. P^/^/<3; inflexo-mxarglnata. ' .. - 
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Imp 
ciatoria 
o 
um. 
L. Sp. PL 371. 
THIS 
IS 
tb 
perennial, large, fleiby, fuccul 
nly Imperatoria defcribed by L 
The 
nally brown 
d, tapering 
gh 
lated, extei 
many lateral fibres: the ftalk is thick, ftriated 
y whitifh, creeping, and fend 
ff 
fes about two feet in hei 
d, jointed, and 
compound, and proceed 
ely from long footftalks, which fupply the ftalk with a ilieathy 
pointed 
^ 
ch 
the fi 
y ferrated 
P 
are 
an 
a 
d 
ptical, 
id the 
■■J* 
terminal leaf is commonly cut into three lobes : the general umbels 
g 
5 
flat* and 
the p 
a 
mbel convex and unequal 
there is no general involucrum ; the partial involucrum confifts of 
fiend 
ly of the length of the 
e 
hfl 
IS compofed of five oval petals, which are of equal fize 
notched, and haying their points bent inwards ; the five fil 
tapering, wh 
hite 
A- 
d loiip-er than the 
double 
the 
fc> 
anther 
S 
IS roundiili, ftriated, truncated, abo 
M^ 
I. white, 
beneath 
