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RHOEADES. 
CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. — GREATER, or COMMON 
| CELANDINE. 
SYNONYMA. Chelidonium majus.. Pharm. Geoff. iti. 309. 
Dale. 210. Alflon.i.407. Lewis. 224... Edinb. New Difpenf. — 
170. Murray. ii. 300. Bergius. 451. Ger. Emac. 1069. Raiz. 
Hit. 858.  Synop. 309. Hall. Helv. n. 1059. Chelidonium : 
majus vulgare. Baub. Pinvig4qg. Park. Theat. 616. C.*majus. 
Hudf: Ang. 228. Withering. Bot. Arr. 547. Flor. Dan. t. 542. 
Polyandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen? Plant. 647. 
Gen. Ch, Cor. 4-petala. Cal. 2-phyllus. Siliqua 1-locularis, linearis. 
Sp. Ch. C. pedunculis umbellatis. 7 | 
ROOT perennial, tapering, branched, externally brown, internally 
yellow. Stalks ere&t, cylindrical, branched, fomewhat hairy, from 
_ one to two feet in height. Leaves pinnated, terminal leafit large, and 
often lobed; pinnz roundith, with deeply fcolloped edges. Flowers 
yellow, in {mall umbels, upon long hairy foot{talks. Calyx con- 
lifting of two ovate, entire, hairy, deciduous leaves. Corolla of four 
petals, which are circular, large, fpreading, narrow at the bafe. Fila- 
ments from twenty to thirty, compreffed, ‘tapering, fhorter than the 
corolla. Anthera double, oblong, flattith. Germen cylindrical, long, 
bent. Stigma blunt. Pod long, valved, fomewhat tapering at each 
end, containing feveral oval fhining feeds attached to the receptacle, 
which is placed at the junétion of the valves. : : 
It grows in hedges, or rough uncultivated places, flowering in moft 
- of the fummer months. | _ SS 3 
‘* The leaves and roots of Celandine have a faiht unpleafant {mell, 
and a bitterifh very acrid and very durable tafte, which is confiderably 
ftronger im the roots than in the leaves, Both -water and reétified 
