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EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS. ORD: XX. Personate. 369 
Gen. Ch. Cor. 4-fidus cylindricus. Caps. 2-locularis, ovato- “oblonga. : 
Anthere inferiores altero lobo basi spinosz. 
Sp. Chi: E, foliis ovatis lineatis argute dentatis.. : 
_ ROOT annual, slender, divided, furnished with numerous minute’ 
fibres’? stalk about three or four inches high, branched, round, 
somewhat hoary, reddish: Leaves sessile, opposite, ovate, deeply 
sérrated, concave, rather hairy, and on the upper side marked with 
linear impressions. Flowers without peduncles, in racemi, arising 
at the ale*of the leaves; Calyx pentagonal, permanent, divided 
at the brim-into four segments, which are unequal, of a dingy 
purplish colonr, and Besét with small glands. Corolla monopeta- 
lous, bilabiated, white: tube eylindti¢ah’ crooked, somewhat hairy, 
atthe mouth yellowish: limb separated into two lips: upper lip 
erect, bifid, toothed, streaked with three purple lines: lower lip 
largést; divided into three emarginated lobes, of which those placed 
laterally are painted with'purple streaks, and that‘in the- middle 
tinged with yellow. Filaments four, tapering, purplish. Anthera 
brown, bilobed, bearded with a ‘few white hairs at the bottom. 
Germen egg-shaped, hairy. ‘Style filiform, downy. “Stigma blunt, 
fringéd with’ minuté glands. Capsule egg-shaped, notched at 
the end, ee into two cells, containing several whitish striated. 
seeds. - 
: It is.common on barren stieadows, heaths, and pastures, producing 
its flowers from July till September. - 
‘Eyebright, without any sensible mine 3 is somewhat bitterish and 
astringent, communicating a black colour to a solution of ferrum 
vitriolatum. It derives its name from its reputed efficacy in various 
disorders of the eyes, for which it was used both externally* and 
internally, and has long’ been so much celebrated as to be con- 
“The usual way of employing it as an external a was ‘by mixing its - 
juice with wine, and then adding a small quantity of hone 
> It is mentioned in this-character™ by Gordon, ( Lilium Medicine. Fol, 146. pees 
1305) Also by Arnoldus de Villa Nova, Sylvaticus, and others. 
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No, 31,— vor. 3. 5 Aw 
