22 Thi BRA TUS 'H HERBAL. 
The ftalk is naked and flender. } England, and has been found on the Thames . 
The flowers are large, ‘white, and beautiful: fhore by Lambeth. It flowers in Augatt: 
The feeds ftand naked in a little round but- Plokenet calls it Sagitta aquatica ommium mi- 
ton. hima, i 
It is common in fhallow waters in the north of 
DE Vel Ser OONS AT: FORE IG Ng PE CIES. 
1. Blunt-leayed Arrowhead. The leaves ftand on long, thick, and fpungy 
Sagittaria aquatica foliis obtufis frutiu parvo. footftalks, three on each: they are: very long, 
narrow, and of a pale green, but of the true ar- 
rowhead form. i 
The ftalks are long, weak, {pungy, obtufely ' 
angulated, and naked. 
They are furnifhed toward the tops with large 
and beautiful flowers. 
The root confifts of a large, irregular lump, 
with a great number of long fibres. 
The leaves ftand on long footftalks, are of the 
arrowhead fhape, but very broad at the bafe, and 
blunt at the end. 
he flowers areilargeand whife, The feeds follow in fmall naked heads. 
‘The feeds ftand naked in a {mall round clufter. 
It is a native of Afia, and flowers in Auguft. & het eae ol ching Bit as Ealt Indica . 
Rheede calls it after the Afiatick name, Culita Petiver calls it Sagittaria Chinensfs Solits ternis 
> 
mara. Plukenet, Sagittarie folits planta frudiu longiffimis. 
Slomorato monopyrene. The commen arrowhead is cooling; but we 
ones icular account of its virtues, 
9{.Trifoliate Arrowhead, have no particula account of its virtues 
Sagittaria foliis ternatis, 
The root confifts of a great number of fibres 
about a flefhy head. 
C3 Rompe Nieto 38 XV. 
» - WATER PLANTAIN, 
\PLANTAGO AQUATICA’ 
THE ower is compofed of three petals, and has a three-leaved - cub, 
it is fallen. The feeds ftand together in a little naked head, and th 
loofe. 
Linnzeus places this among the Hexandria polygynia, and calls it alifma. In this genus he joins 
with ic the plant called ftarry-headed water Plantain ; which, though commonly called by the fame 
general name, is properly, feparated, as having the feeds fucceeding each Aower contained in fix abfo- 
Jute capfules; and the alifna of Dillenius, in which the feeds are contained in humerous {mall 
and obtufe capfules, me : 
which remains after 
eir outer coyering is 
DIVISION 1. BRITISH SPECIRS, 
1. Narrow-leaved ‘Water Plantain, 
| 26 Broad-leaved Water Plantain. 
Plantago aquatica anguftifolia, 
Llantago aquatica latifolia. 
The root. is a great thick tuft of fibres, 
The leaves rife in a large.clufter, and are very | 
long and narrow : they ftand on footftalks of four: || 
or five inches long; they are pointed at the 
end, diftinguithed by three large ribs running 
aan 5 Suecanes of the plantain; and The leaves ftand on thefe ten eilies jms as 
are of a fine bright green. long, hollowed, WE aoa ie A 
The ftalks rife from the centre of thele leaves ; large, broad, and oblone, bly BR ey et rt arg 
. 3 > Nt at ¢) - 
oe CMS seat weak, and a foot high, and: have divided ‘‘at the edges and ofa ier eae 
no leaves onthem. 5 ; 3 abo 
‘ and frefl our... Wi sats “ 
The flowers ftand: about ‘the tops; andvare nine fahbelite sean att Tange obits roa} 
fmall and white, each compofed of three! petals, roe : ree Tannen of Sennen plan. 
with a few threads in the centre, : Th 5 +! 
: e ftalk i 
The feeds follow in round; fmall, rough heads, , ora 
feet high: there grow a m 
Ic is common in ftanding waters,’ and flowers | from it in 
in June. : : : 
The root confifts of 4 great tuft of fibres, from 
which there rife’ a clufter of ftalks to fuppore 
the leaves: ‘the bottoms of ‘thefe being broad 
and clofé' compatted, forma kind of round head ; 
| whence the‘fibres grow. rE, 2 
; fmooth, and three 
ultitude of branches 
- a regular order; fo that: it has from 
gate : the middle upwards a kind of conic fhape. 
ic Bauhine calls it Plantago aquatica angufti- The flowers ftand' on the:tops of the footfall 
folia. J. Bauhine, Plantago aquatica minor, that rife from feveral Parts of thefe: Ba ie 
fmall 
