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GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA. 
COMMON LIQUORICE. 
STNONTMJ. Glycyrrh 
Pharm. Loud. Es? Edinb 
g 
Gerard. Emac. p 
3 
Glycyrrhiza filiquofa vulg 
Rail Hifl. p. 9 
s. Park. Tt 
Glycyrrhiza 
Synop. p. 
3 2 4- 
Glycyrrhiza radice repente, &c_ J. Bauh. Hifl. ii. p. 328. Gly- 
cyrrhiza filiquofa vel germanica. Bauh. Pin. p. 352. Hifl. Oxon. 
v. ii. p. 89. Conf. Pallas. Reife durchs Rufs. Reich. T. i. p. 49 
11. 120. 
&x> et YhvKvggit-a. G 
Clafs Diadelphia. Ord. Decandria. Lin, Gen. Plant. 8S%. 
EJf. Gen. Ch. Cal. 2-labiatus : 
Legumen ovatum, comprefTum. 
Sp. Ch. G. leguminibus glabris, ftipulis nullis, foliolo imparl petiolato 
THE 
root is perennial, long, round, fucculent, tough, runnin 
to a confiderable extent, externally brown, internally yellow, and of 
a fweet tafte : the ftalks are erecl:, ftrong, herbaceous, ftriated, garnilhed 
with few branches, and ufually rife four or five feet in height v the 
1 
eaves 
are pinnated, alternate, compofed of feveral pairs of pinna?, 
with an odd one at the end : the leafits are ovate, blunt, veined, of a 
pale green colour, and ftand upon fhort footftalks : the flowers are of 
the papilionaceous kind,, of a purplifh colour, and appear in long 
fpikes arifing from the axillse of the leaves : the calyx is perfiftent, 
tubular, cut obliquely into two. lips, and divided into narrow pointed 
fegments : the corolla confifts of a vexillwn^ which is erecl:,, lance- 
fhaped, concave, obtufe ; two ales, which are oblong, obtufe, and 
larger than the carina, which is about the length of the calyx : the 
filaments are ten, nine of which are joined at the bafe, and all fur- 
nilhed with fimple roundifh antherae : the germen is fhorter than the 
calyx, and is fupplied with a tapering ftyle, terminated by a blunt 
ft igma : the feeds are fmall, kidney-fhaped, and produced in a pod, 
which is oblong, comprefTed, pointed, one-celled. The flowers appear 
in Auguft. 
Liquorice is a native of the South of Europe : it appears to have 
been cultivated in Britain in the time of Turner. 8 • The chief places 
1 
a Vide Tourn. Herb. part. 2, fd. 12. published in 1562. 
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