rGk^A MO^'OECIA. 



aflringcnt quality, and has been reckoned 

 v)ng{l the vulncrarics, but is at prefect out of 

 ufe. 



PARlEtARlA. Gen. pi 1 152. 

 HERMA?HROD. Cal, 4 fidus. Cot. g. Stam. 4. 

 Styl 1. .S"^?;?. I, fuperum, 

 elongatum. 

 FEM. CaL 4-fidus. Cor. o. 6"/^w. d, Styl !. 5^^. 

 1, fuperum, elongatum. 

 cfficimlisu pARlETARlAfoliis lanceolato-Gvatis, peduncu* 

 lis dichotomis, calycibus diphyllis. Sp.pl. 1492. 

 {Ger. fw. 331. Morii. hi ft. /. 5. /. 30./. i. ordinis 

 inferior is. Pet. herb. t. S. f, iQ. cum characlere. 

 Blackivdl. t. 156, Oed. Dan. t. 521. cp.) 

 Pellitory of the Wall. AngHs. 

 In wade places, and upon walls, as upon the walls 



of the church at Burntifiand., 8ic. U. VII. 

 The root creeps: the llalk grows erc6l, and is 

 rough to the touch, and adhefive. The leaves 

 are alternate, elliptical, and lanceolate, vcin'd, 

 and a little rough. The flowers grow out of the 

 alas of the leaves, in frfTile, branched, verticil- 

 late ciufters, of a grcenifli colour, tinged with 

 red. The anihey'a have a great degree of fenfi- 

 bility, for if irritated with a point of a pin, they 

 flv from the calyx with elaftic force, and explode 

 their pov/der. The female flowers are quadran- 

 gular, and pyramidal. The males are furnilhed 

 with a fcflilc, fhining, oblong, acuminated ne^a- 



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