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PARIETARIA OFFICINALIS. WALL PELLITORY. 
ST NO NT MA. Parietaria. Pharm. Lond. fcf Edinb. Gerard 
Emac. p. 331. Rait Hift. p. 206. Synop. p. 158. Parietaria 
officinarum & Diofcoridis. Banh. Pin. p. 121. Parietaria vul- 
garis. Park. Theat. p. 436. Parietaria foliis elliptico-lanceolatis 
hirfutis. Hal. Stirp. Helv.n. 161 2. Parietaria officinalis. Hudf. 
Ang. p. 442. Lightf.Scot. p. 634. Wit her i fig Bot.Arr. p. 1141 
Curt. Flor. Lond. Flor. Dan. 521. 
Clafs Polygamia. Ord. Monoecia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1152 
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EJf. Gen. Ch. He km. Cal. 4-fidus. Cor. o. Stamina 4. Sty I. 1 
Sent. 1. fuperum, elongatum. 
Fem. Cal. 4-fidus. Cor. o. St am. o. Stylus 1. 
Sem. 1. fuperum, elongatum. 
Ch. P. fol. lanceolato-ovatis pedunculis diehotomis calycibus 
diphyllis. 
THE root is perennial, reddifh, fibrous, creeping: the ftem is 
ereft, rough, vifcous, reddifh, and furnifhed with long fpreading 
branches : the leaves are elliptical, pointed, veined, fomewhat hairy, 
and placed on fhort footflalks : the flowers are fmall, of a greenifh 
colour, tinged with red, placed at the alae of the leaves in feffile- 
branched veticillate clufters, and are both hermaphrodite and female ; 
two of the former and one of the latter are placed within the fame 
involucrum, which is permanent, and divided into feven irregular 
oval pointed leafits, befet with glandular hairs: the calyx of the 
hermaphrodite flower fep 
four flat blunt fegments, about 
half the fize of the involucrum, and fupplies the place of 
the filaments are four, tranfverfely wrinkled, and manifeft an elaftic 
power : the anther* are double, and according to Mr. Lightfoot, have 
a ffreat 
