52 The 
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poted by that author, juftifies the placing it in that clafs; buc when we oe _ a ea pas 
: on At Gea / m, nature has not 
fingle petal, and that its fruit is a clufter of five capfules, we may fay with freedom, t 
placed it between ftonecrop and waodforrel. 
There is a plant ufually confounded with the 
houfeleck that will naturally follow it, though in a 
is i i i i i alliance. 
feparate genus ; and this is the only one with which nature has given it any allian 
DT VeES: NOUN pat. 
Wall Pennywort. 
Cotyledon radice tuberofa. 
The root is roundifh, tuberous, and furnifhed 
with many fibres from the bottom. 
The leaves are numerous, and rife in a thick, 
regular clufter. They are fupported on foot- 
ftalks of three inches long, afd thefe are inferted, 
not at one fide, but in the centre, the leaf 
fpreading every way into roundnefs from: them. 
Thete leaves are of a bluith green, prettily nozch- 
ed round the edges, and of a watery tafte. 
The ftalk is eight inches high, and is round, 
and tolerably firm, Toward the top it divides 
into two or three branches, and on thefe hang 
numerous flowers in long fpikes. 
DIVISION IL. FO 
Yellow Navelwort. 
Cotyledon flore aureo. 
' The root is thick, and often tuberous, and has 
numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a large clufter, and are 
of an oval figure, broadeft at the top, and dented 
at the edges. ‘They are of a bluith green colour, 
of a flethy fubftance, and of an infipid tafte. 
The ftalk is round, fmooth, greenifh or 
purplifh, erect, and but little branched. 
Its leaves ftand irregularly: they have no foot- 
ftalks, but join the ftalk by a broad bafe: they 
are of the fame fhape with thofe from the root, 
but fomewhat narrower and more indented. 
The flowers are very numerous and beautiful. 
They ftand in clufters on flender footftalks, 
and are tubular, divided into four fharp feg- 
ments at the edge, and of a beautiful yellow. 
The capfulesare fmall, and pointed. As the feg- 
ments of the flower are four, thefe alfo are four ; 
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Tey Sahe = Si Pe ESCt leks: 
They are fmall, greenith, and dented at the 
rim. 
The capfules are oblong, fwelled, and pointed ; 
and they contain numerous fmall feeds. 
Itis a native of England, but not common. 
I have feen it on walls near Shepon Mallet in So- 
merfetthire. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Cotyledon major. J. Bau- 
hine, Cotyledon vera radice tuberofa, In Englith 
we call it kidneywort, navelwort, and frorn its 
growing on walls and the roundnefs of its leaves, 
which are fuppofed to refemble pieces of money, 
wallpennywort. 
It is cooling and diuretick, but is not much 
ufed. 
ReEPL.GsNz*S-P Bi CAB IS: 
and the threads, which are ten in the common 
Kind, are only eight in this. Linnzus, how- 
ever, ranks it in the fame genus with the other, 
acknowledging this variation. It is a proof that, 
however he has taught others to confider the 
number of threads conftituting the claffical, as 
well as generical characters of plants, himfeif knew 
very well they, were not fufficiently determinate 
for that purpofe. 
Thofe who love needlefs diftin@ions may make 
two genera of thefe two fpecies, and givea new 
name to the laft; but they who ftudy plants 
for ufe will hold fuch diftin€tions. very lightly. 
fas fpecies is a native of Egypt and the Eatt 
ndies. 
Van Royen calls it Cotyledon foliis laciniatj 
vibus quadrifidis. j Dagens 
They ufe it in Egypt as a diuretick 
“hey , » giving 
the juice ina large quantity againft the & 
gravel, 
UES I, 
PERIWINKLE. 
PERIVINCA 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal which is of a tubu 
upwards, and at the rim is divided into five fegments, 
two of which follow every flower. 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria monogynia, 
and but a fingle filament from two rudiments of capfules. 
His general rule for the arrangement of plants according to thefe 
the ftyles, or number rifing from the rudiments, 
the duft from the buttons on the threads, 
fingle indeed, but the rudiments, 
two ; therefore, as himfelf acknowledges, 
which he calls germina ; 
and to convey it to the rudiments, 
which are the effential Parts, that being but 
this genus more juftly belongs to th 
lar form in the lower part, o 
rowing wide. 
The feeds are contained in long anus 
becaufe there are in each flower five threads 
> 
Parts, is from the divifion of 
this ftyle ferves to receive 
The ftyle in periwinkle is 
fubfervient to them, are 
¢ digynia, or thofe which 
have 
