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66 THE BRITISH HERBAL, 
3. Moneywort with pointed leaves, bluntly asin that, they here end ina fharp point: 
The flowers ftand fingly on long, flender foot- 
: _ | falks, which rife from the bofoms of the leaves, 
The root is long, flender, and furnithed with and they are of a beautiful yellow. 
> Nuimmularia foliis acutis. 
many fibres. The feed-veffels are {mall and round, 
The ftalks are numerous, very flender, weak, It is frequent in woods, and flowers in July, 
and eight or ten inches long. C. Bauhine calls ic Anagallis lutea nemorun, 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and have no footftalks: | J. Bauhine, Anagallis lutea numimularie Similis, 
they are broad and fhort, and refemble verymuch | We, Yellow wood pimpernell; but J. Bauhine’s 
the leaves of the common kind in colour as well | name comes neareft to truth, for it is in reality a 
as difpofition ; but that inftead of terminating ! kind of moneywort. 
DIVISION IL FOREIGN SPECIEs, 
1. Steliate-leaved Moneywort. Petiver calls it Auagallis marina lutea foliis latis 
Nummularia foliis ftellatis. Srellatis. 
The root is fall, flender, long, and full of Thefe feveral fpecies, as they refemble the com- 
fibres. 7] mon moneywort in form, are of the fame nature 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, flender, and | and qualities: it is a plant of very confiderable 
feven or eight inches long. virtues, which loofe ftrife does not poffefs, ar 
The leaves are broad, and fhort: they ftand | leaft not in an equal degree, and is therefore very 
four together : they have fhort footftalks, and are neceffarily feparated and preferved under its pro- 
fharp-pointed. per and peculiar name. 
From the bofom of every leaf rifes the pedicle The common moneywort is cooling and aftrin- 
of a flower, therefore there are four of them alfo gents it is excellent againft fpitting of blood, 
at every joint: they are of a beautiful yellow, and | and in dyfenteries : for thefe purpofes the beft way 
are deeply divided into five fegments, of giving it is dried and powdered. 
The feed-veffel is fmall and oval. The juice of it isa known remedy for over- 
It is a native of Virginia, principally about the | fowings of the menfes, and the roots powdered 
coaft ; and flowers in July. are good in diarrhceas, 
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ROUND PIMPERNELL, 
SAMOLUsS, 
HE flower confifts of a fingle hollow petal, Widening to the mouth, and divided into five cb. 
“le tufe fegments : the feed-veffel is of an oval figure, and the cup remains with it. 
Linneus places this among the pentandria monogynia; the threads being five in the centre of each 
flower, and the rudiment of the fruit fingle. j 
OF this genus there is but one known fpecies, 
Round-leaved Pimpernell. that they are not fo lengthened at the bafe : they 
F are broad, obtufe, and rounded at the end. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalk and 
branches, and are {mall and white, 
The feed-veffel is fmall, and the feeds nume- 
rous and minute. : 
It is not uncommon in wet places, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Anagallis aquatica folio ro. 
tundo non crenato. Ak Bauhine, Samolus vale- 
randi, ; é 
Samolus. 
The root is a thick tuft of long, flender fibres. 
The leaves that rife from it are numerous, ob- 
long, and without footftalks : they ftand in a re- 
gular tuft, and are of a beautiful green. They 
are narrow, and lengthened in manner of a ftalk 
toward the bafe, but at the top oval, undivided 
at the edges, and obtufe. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and a foot 
igh. Its juice is an excellent antj i 
_ The leaves fland irregularly on it, and are of | with ee of Seville een ae 
the fame figure with thofe from the Toot, except quantity of white wine 
GENUS 
