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much branched, and woody, ufually about four inches long. 

 The leaves are firm, fmooth, and of a lively glolfy green. Cul- 

 ture makes no change in it. It flowers in July and Auguft. 



. 109. Male Speed-well, Fluellin, or true Paul's Betony (p). In woods, 

 and about ihadowy rocks. Among the rocks under the Roman 

 wall on the weft fide of SheivingJ}jeels y and in RajnJJjo'w-\vooA, by 

 the road-fide, plentifully. The flalks are moftly procumbent, 

 firm, hoary, and taking root at the joints. The leaves are in 

 pairs at the divarication of the branches, moderately firm, hairy, 

 ovated, and crenated at the edges, of a pale green. The flowers 

 are in fpikes. They vary in their colour ; fomctimes of a pale 

 blue, with red or blue veins ; fometimes white, with red veins ; 

 and fometimes entirely white. They are monopetalous. The 

 ovary is cordiform and comprefTed. The feed is roundim and 

 yellow. It is an aflringent and bitter plant. It is ufed by infufion 

 for defluxions from the head in great colds, coughs, and diffi- 

 culty of breathing, and all difeafes of the breaft and lungs, with 

 juft commendations*. Two ounces of the juice drank at a 

 time, and often, is advifed for alleviating the anguifh and tor- 

 ture of the gout f. The Th'tnte-leaved, Female Fluellin, or Paul's 



(p) Veronica. Cam. Epit. p. 461. optime. Veronica mas fupina' & vulgatifiima. C. B. 

 Pin. p. 246. Raj. Hift. i. p. 851. Syn. iii. p. 281. Town, Inft. p. 143. Martyn. Tourn. 

 ii. % p. 330. Boerb. Ind. A. p. 224. Veronica fupina vulgaris foliis ferratis. Hift. Oxon. ii. 

 p. 318. Veronica caule repente, fcapis fpicatis, foliis oppofitis ovatis ftrigofis. Linn. Flo. 

 Lapp. n. 5. Hort. Cliff, p. 8. Veronica floribus fpicatis, foliis oppofitis, caule procum- 

 bente. Flo. Suec. n. 8. Veronica foliis ficcis ovatis ferratis, caule procumbente, ex alis 

 racemofa. Hall. Helv. p. 530. 



* In tufli, aflhmate leviori, ad catarrhales no&urnas fuffocatlonis, in majoris etiam pelo;is 

 morbis (BRESLAURIENSES, 1722. M. Febr. BUCHWALD, p. 287.) infufum onmino laudem 

 meretur. HALLER. 1. c. 



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