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' The BRITISH HERBAL. 
DPV 1ISt ON? I. 
Trifoliata Meadowfweet. 
Ulmaria trifoliata. 
The root is a great tuft of fibres rifing from 
a fmall head. 
The firft leaves ftand on long, redifh foot- 
flalks, and are large, of a pale green colour, 
and firm ftruéture. They in fome degree re- 
femble thofe leaves of the common meadow/weet 
that grow on the upper part of the ftalk. They 
are compofed of three parts or three feparate leaves, 
Gogg E a Naas 
FOREIGN: SPECIES... 
which may be called oné pair of pinne, and an 
end leaf.: : 5 
The ftalk is firm, upright, and five foot high. 
Tts leaves refemble thofe from the root, but they 
are fmaller. 
The flowers are large, and white. 
The feeds are twifted: 
It is a native of North America. 
Morifon calls it Uluaria Virginiana trifoliata 
floribus candidis amplis longis et acutis. Others, 
Ulmaria major trifoliata Virginiana, 
poise a. QA b 
DaRGO. RaW O [Ratt 
PILI PE NoD Uskicd, 
\HE flower is compofed of five petals, and ftands in a cup divided into five parts. The feeds 
T following each flower are twelve in number, and are erect. Linnaeus, we have juft fhewn, joins 
this and meadowfeet with the {piraea among his icofandria polygynia. 
There is but one known fpecies of dropwort, and that is a native of Britain. 
Dropwort. 
Filipendula vulgaris. 
The root confifts of a vaft tuft of fibres, to 
which there are conneéted in many places large 
flefhy lumps: thefe are of a dufky colour on the 
outfide, and white within. 
From the head of this clufter rife ten or a dozen 
leaves of a very beautiful and regular form. They 
have very fhort footftalks, and are regularly pin- 
nated, each having fix, feven, or more pairs of 
pinne, with an odd leaf at the end, all uniform, 
oblong, and regularly dented round the edges. 
The ftalk rifes in the midft of thefe, and is 
upright, round, firm, and two or three foot high, 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it,: and are like 
thofe at the bottom. 
!The flowers are white, and have a large tuft 
of yellowith threads in the middle. 
The feeds ftand in a little, naked head. 
It is not uncommon in dry paftures, and fow- 
ers in autumn. 
C. Bauhine calls it Filipendula vulgaris. J. Bau- 
hine, Filipendula. We, Dropwort. All, names 
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MALLOW. 
taken from the tuberous parts of the root, which 
refemble fo many great drops, and hang by 
threads. : 
The root of dropwort is attenuant.in the vit. 
cera; but has a flight aftringency in the bowels. 
It works by urine, and brings away gravel. For 
this ufe it is beft taken’ in decodtion, : 
Tt is good in epilepfies and other nervous com- 
plaints. To this purpofe a tinéture made of it 
in wine is the beft form of giving it; and it 
fhould be made with three ounces of the dried 
root toa quart of the liquor. 
It has alfo been found ferviceable againft the 
fluor albus ; and for this is bett given in powder. 
In this form fifteen grains is a proper dofe. 
In repeated dofes in this laft form it is faid to 
have cured dyfenteries. It is one of thofe' reme- 
dies of which our fore-fathers were very fond ; 
and which we have very unreafonably neglected 
C.Bauhine and: éthers ‘have defcribed whag 
they call a leffér fpeciessof dropwort; but accord= 
ing to.their own accounts, this differs in little but 
fize, and is evidently a variety. 
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MALYD A. 
HE flower is compofed of five petals, which 
cup: the outer of thefe compofed of three le 
five parts, and both remain with the feeds. 
the outer covering loofe. 
Thus far the charaéter of the genus comprehends with the feveral 
To diftinguifh the mallow from thefe 
marfo mallow and vervain mallow. 
are entire, of a roundith figure, and green. 
The reafon of this addition to the character of 
vervain mallow have the fame flowers and feeds ; 
and white: and in the vervain mallow they. are d 
Join together at the bafe; and flands in'a double 
‘aves; the inner one, 
Thele are gathered into a 
of a fingle leaf divided into 
round, flat head, and have 
kinds of mallow, thofe of 
'» We are to add, the leaves 
the genus is, that the althea, and alcea, marfo, and 
but the leaves in the marfo mallow kinds are oblong, 
2 eeply divided. They are yer 
included among the mouadelphia polyandria by Linnzeus, 
y nearly allied, and are 
DIVISION 
