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lent garirarism for diseases of the throat, and is good against piles and falling-down of 

 the anus 



To take away the hardness of the spleen, bruise vervain with the white of an egg" and 

 baric-, -meal or wheat-flour ; make it into a cataplasm, and apply it to the part. Bar- 

 -ia.u, p. l'J9. 



2. PRISMATICA. fRISMATIC: 



V-erbena minima c ham adryos folio ^loane, v. 1, p. i72, t. 107, f. 2, 

 Procumbens raniosa, Joins majoribus, sp;cis Ungisswiis laleralibus. 

 Brou ne, p. U6, v. 2. 



T.'o stamened, spikes loose ; calyxes alternate prismatic, truncate, awned, 

 leaves ovaie-obtuse. 



S ;m and branches round, smooth, and rrmed with straight, scattered, black, spines ; 

 the leaves are bi-pinnate, often of four pairs, sometimes five or three, with an uncer- 

 n umber of pinnules, twelve, more or less ; they are linear-oblong, sharpish, 

 e : ' sub-sessile, and small ; the racemes are lax, terminal, and axillary ; about half 

 , with the proper footstalks about two inches long, spreading, and at the 

 tips igthe flowers, which are of a pale yellow, T(Sloane says blue?) into a round- 



isb - I ; they arc sessile and of a fragrant smell. Jucquin. 



3. LAPFJi.ACEA. BURRY. 



iScoi'odonia Jloribus spiralis purpurascentibus ptntapclafoules, semine 

 u 17, ec, 'nato. Sloane, v. i, p. 174, t 110, f. I. Foiiis 



cordoto mat is, Jloribus spicais t calicibus injiatis, semhiibus echinu- 

 tis. Browne, p. 116, v. 5. 



Four stamened, fructing calyxes roundish, inflated, seeds echinate. 



Stem herbaceous, a foot high, erect, somewhat branched, brittle, quadrangular, hol- 

 low, more contracted at the oase of the petioles, striate 1, pubescent. Leaves opposite 

 and decussated, ovate, acute, serrate, nerved, hispid, on four-cornered pubescent pe- 

 tioles. Racemes long, loose, composed of scattered flowers, directed one wav, of a ve- 

 T\ pale blue colour, on short pedicels, having minute bractes under tliem ; calyx equal, 

 hispid; corolla almost equal ; tube twice as long as the calyx, segments of the border 

 acute, three superior a little distinct, two inferior ; germ ovate, style short, stigma glo- 

 bular ; capsule four-cornered, spiny at the corners, ovate at the base, bi- partite, four- 

 celle I, covered with the inflated calyx. Seeds four oblong. Swartz. The obtuse 

 stigma is reflected ; each of the seeds is two celled, and contains two kernels. Jacquin. 

 Tnis plant is cally Styptic or Velvet-Bur, and is a fine vulnerary and sub-astringent," 

 commonly applied to bleeding wounds in either men or cattle. It is thought to be so 

 powerful a styptic or astringent as to stop the hemorhage even when some of the 

 mure considerable arteries are cut ; an i may be deservedly considered as an excellent 

 ajiphcation in all manner of sores where the iiabit is relaxed. 



4. STOECHADIFOLTA. LAVENDER-LEAVED. 



ISiibfruticosa reclinata, foiiis a>'?>!st ; s ferrato-dentaffc, pedunculis lon- 

 gis solitartis, Jloribus coiiglobatis. Browne, p. 116, V. 4, t. 3, f. I, 

 Two stamened, spikes ovate, leaves lanceolate-serrate, plaited, stem shrubby. 

 This rises with a shrubby branching stalk five or six feet high ; leaves opposite on 



K k 2 short 



