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The feeds follow in a {mall roundifh head. 
The footftalks of the leaves are longer than 
thofe of the flowers, and are flender and weak : 
each fupports a fingle leaf: this is divided into 
three parts; but the divifion does not run down 
to the ftalk: the colour on the upper-fide is a 
dufky green, and on the under-fide it is paler. 
Jt is a native of Germany, and many other 
parts of Europe, and flowers early in fpring. 
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LEOPARD’S 
C. Bauhine calls it Trifolium hepaticum flore fim- 
plicit ; others, Hepatica nobilis, or Noble liver- 
wort. : : 
It is recommended as an agelutinant, bal- 
famick, and vulnerary. It has been efteemed 
alfo greatly in diforders of the liver; but it is not 
fo much regarded here,. as abroad. 
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BANE. 
THO OReA 
THE flower confifts of five petals, with a tuft of threads in the centre : the feeds ftand in a {mall 
naked clufter : the root is tuberous ; and the leaves are roundifh, and entire. 
Linnzus places this among the polyandria polyeynia, making it a fpecies of ranunculus, not a dif- 
tinét genus, with its peculiar and proper name. The flowers and feeds agree with thofe of the ranun- 
culus: but the whole afpect of the plant is different from any kind of crowfoot; and the generical 
character, taking in the leaves and root, is quite difting. 
There may appear the lefs inconvenience in joining this plant with the ranunclus ; 
the form of the flower and feeds is the fame, 
becaufe not only 
but the plant agrees in its qualities in fome degree with 
the crowfoots. But as there is an antient diftinét name for it, and there are grounds in nature for 
fupporting the diftinction, I have preferved it. 
There is properly but one fpecies of thora known. 
Round-leaved Leopard’s Bane, 
Thora valdenfis, 
The root is compofed of a number of oblong 
thick pieces, hanging from one head. 
The leaves that rife from it ftand on Jong foot- 
ftalks, and are nearly round. The’ ftalle is in- 
ferted at the middle, where there is a little dent ; 
and they are finely ferrated about the edges, 
Among thefe rifes a fingle ftalk of eight inches 
_in height, flender, round, and upright“ not 
branched, but dividing fometimes into two, fomie= 
times into three twigs at the top, 
Near the bottom of this ftand two or three 
leaves, refembling thofe from the root, or fome- 
times a little dented at the end oppofite the ftalk ; 
in fome plants alfo they are doubly dented, fo as 
to give the idea of a divifion into three parts. 
Toward the top of the ftalk ftand feveral 
leaves of a very different figure ; they are narrow, 
longifh, and have no footftalks, and are fmall, 
and not divided at the edge. 
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On the top of the ftalk ftands a fingle flower, 
when it is not divided; when it is, one on each di- 
vifion. 
Thefe are moderately large, and of a very 
beautiful yellow, compofed of five broad petals, 
and placed in a cup of five narrow leaves. : 
The feeds fland in a naked clutter. 
It isa native of the mountains in Switzerland, 
and other parts of Europe; and flowers in May. 
J. Bauhine calls it Thora folio cyclaminis , others, 
Thora, and Thora valdenfis. Moft authors de- 
{cribe a fmaller fpecies; but it is no more than 
a variety of this. What’ we have given, is the 
plantin its utmoft perfeCtion: where it is ftarved, 
the leaves are lefs and more dented; and there 
are only two or three of the narrow ones, and a 
fingle fower on the ftalk : but this which is called 
the /efer thora, being brought into a garden, be~ 
comes the fame with the greater. 
It is accounted poifonous. 3 
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CLIMBER. 
wierd IR “AG she Neen. 
ae flower is compofed of twelve petals, and has a cup compofed of four leaves: the feeds 
ftand in a naked clufter, and have long downy filaments. 
Linnzeus places this among the polyandria polygynia, It refembles the clematitis in the feeds, but 
-differs-greatly in the flower. } 
Trifoliate Atragene. 
Atragene foliis pinnatis, trifoliatis: 
The root is long, woody, and creeping. 
The firft leaves are broad, and ftand on long 
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footftalks, only three on each, and thofe not 
deeply ferrated. 
The ftalks are numerous, woody, weak, and 
flender: they are four or five feet long, and di- 
vided into numerous branches. 
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