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| GEUM URBANUM. _ COMMON AVENS. — 
SYNONYMA. Caryophyllata. Pharm. Dale. 160. Geoff iii. 
263. Alfon.i. 404. Lewis. 205. Edinb. New Difpenf. 164. 
Bergius. 445. Murray. iii. 122. Caryophyllata vulgaris. Banh, 
Pin. 321. Park. Theat. 136. Ray. Hift. 606. Synop..253. Ger. 
- — Emac. 995. G.urbanum. Audfon. Flor. Ang. 198. With. Bot. 
5 a - Arr. 537... le. Curt. Flor. Dan..t. 672.. 
Icofandria Polygynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 636. 
Gen. Ch. Gal, 10-fidus. Petala 5. Sem, arifta geniculata. 
Sp . Ch. G. flor. erectis, fruct. globofis villofis, ariftis uncinatis nudis, 
foliis lyratis. , =“ 3 ; 
ROOT perennial, fibrous, brown. Stalks branched, fomewhat 
angular, hairy, about two feet in height. Leaves varying, commonly 
pinnated, hairy,- toothed; pinne two pair, of which the lower are 
almoft circular; the upper pair elliptical ; terminal leaf the largeft, 
and frequently cut into three lobes. Flowers terminal, on long hairy 
peduncles, Calyx divided into ten fegments, which are alternately 
large and fmall. Corolla compofed of five roundith yellow petals, 
widely fpreading from each other. Filaments numerous, yellowith, — 
tapering, inferted into the calyx. Antherz roundifh. Germina many, 
hairy, collected into an orbicular fhape.-_ Styles jointed in the middle, 
enlarged at the top, and furnifhed with fimple ftigmata. Seeds 
numerous, comprefied, rough, crooked near the.extremity, terminated 
by a long arifta. eB ee ee phage 
It is a common Britith plant, in woods and hedges ; flowering from 
June till Auguft. yee 
The root, which is the part of this plant medicinally employed, 
has an aromatic and fomewhat aftringent tafte, and a pleafant fmell — 
of the clove kind, efpecially when it is produced in dry and warm 
: 2s aa : 2 foils. 
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