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GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS 
V 
HEDGE-HYSSOP 
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'auBR 
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STNO NTMJ. Gratiol 
Fharm. Lond. Eff Edinh, Gerard. 
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E 
% 
58 
R 
Hifl. p. 
88c 
Z)o</( 
V 
358 
HaL Slirp, Helv. n. 329. Gratiola, Gratia Dei. •Loh. H'lfl.p. 238 
Chah. p. 475. G 
X 
tiola vulgaris. 
Dan, t. ^6v 
Clajs Diandria. Ord, M 
Park, Theat. p 
G 
Pin. p, i'-j(^ 
a ofEcinalis 
yn 
ia 
Z 
Tl4 
Gen, Plant, 
J 
E/r. Gen. Ch 
Cor. irreoruiaris, re 
1 
\ 
nata. Stamina 2 fterilia 
2-Iocularis. -^CaL 7-~pliyllu 
o 
ibus' patulis 
\ 
Sp, Ch 
G. foliis lanceolatis fer 
floribus pedun 
Gra 
Elor 
^, 
^ 
/ 
/ 
per 
cylind 
5 
white, jointed, and furniilied 
with many flender fibres : the ftalk is fimple, ered:, round, thick, and 
xifes 
arly 
a ' foot 
m 
I 
It 
the leaves are lance-fhaped, long, 
emities, and ftand in pairs, without 
pointed, ferratcd towards the extremities, ar 
footftalks : the flowers proceed from the bafe of the leaves, and 
appear 
in 
J 
and Ausufl: 
they 
are 
tubul 
ar 
3 
d divided at the 
/ 
limb into four obtufe irregular fegments, of a pale purple colour: 
the tube is yellow, and 
cles are flender. 
mixed with reddiHi ftreaks : the pedu 
of 
a 
d colour,' and fupport a fmgle flower 
: the 
the filaments 
lyx confifts of five or fix elliptical pointed fegments : 
four, two of which only are furnifhed with antheras : the flyl 
tapering, flraight, with a divided iligma 
the 
ermen becom 
an 
oval pointed capfule, feparated into two cells, which contain many 
fmall feeds. It is a native of the South of Europe, and grows ufually 
in wet meadows. 
r 
Koflrzewfki, who wrote profefTedly upon the virtues of this 
at/ fuppofes Matthiolus to be the firft botanifl by whom it is 
DifT. de Gratida; Vi 
775 
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