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HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, hollow, and divided into five fegments at the edge: the 
'E cup is formed of a fingle leaf, divided alfo into five fegments; and the feed-veffel is rough and 
hairy on the outfide, and is divided into three cells within. 
Linnzus places this among the péitandria mon 
feed-veff-l, makes it the fame genus with campanula. 
DAV Wes ON 1 
1. Great Throatwort. 
Trachelium foliis longioribus ferratis. 
. The root is compofed of a number of long, 
flender parts, which fpread under the furface, 
and have many great fibres. 
The firft leaves are very large: they rife in a 
great tuft, and ftand upon long footftalks : they 
are very large, foblong, broadeft in the middle, 
- fharply ferrated, and pointed, 
In the centre of this tuft rife the ftalks, which 
are round, firm, thick, upright, not much 
branched, and four feet high. | 
The leaves on them are numerous, and of the 
fame form with thofe from the root : they fre- 
quently grow two, three, ot four from the fame 
point, but without any great regularity. 
The flowers are very numerous, large, and of 
a purplifh colour, of different tinés and degrees ; 
fométimes they are of a deep blue, fometimes 
redifh, and fometimes white. ; 
The feed-veffel is very large, hairy, and di- 
vided into three cells within; it has the fame 
fhort footftalk which fupported the flower, and 
generally hangs downward. 
It grows not uncommonly on the mountains in 
Wales, and in Yorkthire and fome other parts of 
England ; and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Campanula maxima foliis 
latiffimis. Others; Trachelinm kiganteum; and 
our Englifh gardeners, Giant throatwort. 
2. Nettle-leaved Throatwort. 
Trachelium foliis urtice. 
The root is long, thick, and {preading. 
The firft leaves exaétly refemble thofe of the 
common ftinging nettle; they are few, and of 
a dufky green, and hairy, broad at the bafe, tharp 
at the point, ferrated, and fupported on long 
footftalks. 
The ftalks are numerous, firm, upright, hairy, 
fitiated, purplith, anda yard high, 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and 
have long footftalks : they are of the fame fhape 
as thofe from the root, but fmaller. 
The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalks, and | 
on fhort pedicles tifing from the bofoms of the 
upper leaves: they are very large, and of a beau- 
tiful blue, deep, open, and cut into five fegments 
at the edges. 
‘parts of Eneland, 
| wort. 
egynia and, not regarding the difference of the: 
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The feed-veffel is large, rough, and divided 
into three cells. 
It is common in Kent, Suffex, and many other 
countries, and flowers in Auguft. Its common 
place of growth is by road fides. 
C. Bauhine calls it Campanula vulgatior foliis 
urtice major et afperior, Others, Trachelium ma- 
jus, or Great throatwort. : 
3. Clufter-Aowered Throatwort, 
Trachelinm floribis glomeratis. 
The root is Jong, large, fpreading, and fur- 
nifhed with many fibres. : * 
The firft leaves are few and large: they are 
oblong, broad at the bafe, and {maller to the 
point 5, and they ftand on thort footftalks, 
The ftalks are numerous, round, firm, redifh, 
erect, and two foot high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and re- 
femble thofe from the root: thofe on the lower 
part have thort footftalks, thofe on the upper part 
have none, 
The flowers are large and blue; fometimes 
redifh, and not unfrequently white : they ftand 
in thick clufters at the tops of the ftalks, and of 
the branches rifing from the bofoms of the leaves. 
The feed-vefiels are large and rough. 
It is not uncommon in dry paftures in many 
efpecially where the foil is 
chalk. It flowers in July. 
C.Bauhine calls it Crachelium Jive campanula 
pratenfis flore glomerato. Others, Trachelium mi- 
aus. We, in Englith, ufually, Littl throat 
The root of the great throatwort is aftringent. 
A decoétion of it in water, and with a little red 
wine, is excellent againft the falling down of the 
uvula, and is a very good gargarifm in many 
diforders of the throat: ‘it thence obtained its 
name. 
Dried and powdered it a@s as an aftringent in 
the bowels, and is good againft diartheas, efpeci- 
ally fuch as are attended with bloody ftools. 
An infufion of the root of the nettle-leaved 
throatwort, fweetened with honey, is a good 
garglé for fore mouths. Tn general all the fpecies 
have the fame virtue: the great throatwort in the 
principal degree, and this nettle-leaved kind next, 
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