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ASARUM EUROPIUM. COMMON ASARABACCA 



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STNONTMJ, Afarum. Phann, Lond. l^ EdinL BauL Fin 



. 197. Gerard. Emac. /. ^1^6. J. Bauh, Hi/l. vol. Hip. 548 

 Ray H'ljl.p. 207. Synop. p. 158. Alarum vulgare. Park. Theat 



, 266. Afarum foliis reniformibus fubhirfutis. Ilal. Stirp. Helv. 

 n. is^"]. Afarum Europasum. Withering. Bot. Arrang. p. j\fi^, 

 Flor. Dan. 62,2,' 



Clafs Dodecandria. Ord. Monogjnla. Lin. Gen: Plant. 589. 

 EJ. Gen. Ch. Cat. 2,-^. 4-fidus, germini infidens. Cor. o. Caps, 



coriacea, coronata. 



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aS/. Ch. A. foliis reniformibus obtufis binis. 



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THE root is _ perennial, ftrong, divided and fibrous: it h 



flalk, fothat the leaves rife immediately from the root; they grow 

 in pairs, are kidney-lhaped, large, of a deep Ihining green colour, 

 and (land upon long footftalks : the flov^ers are large, belMhaped, of 

 a dirty purple colour, and placed fmgly upon fliort peduncles at the 

 bafe of the footftalks : the calyx fupplies the place of a corolla, and 



IS large, bell-ihaped, divided at the mouth into three or four pointed 

 fegments, which are of a browniih purple colour, but towards the 



bafe it is greenifh : the filaments are twelve, about half the length of 



the calyx, and furnifhed with oblong anthen-E, which are attached to 



the fides of the filaments : from the germen arifes a fimple ftyle, 



crowned with a ftigma, divided into fix radiated refleded parts : the 



capfule is of a leathery texture, and divided into fix cells, which 



contam feveral fmall oblong feeds. ' It is a native of England,^' and 

 flowers in May. • 



It appears from Pliny,' that by the Ancients the name of this plant 

 was frequently confounded v/ith that of nardus and baccharis; and'tlie 

 Enghfh name Afarabacca has been derived from the words afarum' and 



It is extremely fcarce. Ray obferves it is found in fome woods ixT Lancafhire. I. c. 



HIJ. Nat. L, xiu c. 13. et L. xxL cap. 6. 



ptiv. & 



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baccharis 



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