: 
F 
The BRITISH HERBAL. 
75 
DLV. 1 S10, Nasa 
1, Narrow-leaved Throatwort. 
Lrachelium foliis anguftis. 
The fost is long, thick, and fpreading. 
The fir leaves are very large : they are oblong, 
narrow, ferrated, and often curled at the edges : 
they are of a dufky green colour, and have no 
footftalks, 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, redifh, and 
a little hairy. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and re- 
femble thofe from the root: they are of a pale 
green, and have no fooftalks, 
The flowers are very large and beautiful: their 
moft natural colour is a fine deep blue, but they 
are fometimes redifh or white : they are deép, 
long, and divided into five fegments at the edge. 
The feed-veffel is large and rough, 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Campanula hortenfis folio et 
Hlore oblongo. Others, Viola mariana; and our 
gardeners Coventry bells, 
2. Rough-leaved Threadwort: 
Trachelium foliis anguftis ferratis villofis, 
The root is long, thick, white, and furnithed 
with a few fibres. 
The leaves that rife from it are numerous, ob- 
long, narrow, of a brownifh green, hairy, rough’ 
to the touch, fharply ferrated, and without foot- 
talks. : : 
The ftalk rifes in the centre, and ig round, 
firm, upright, and a foot high} it is tough. to 
the touch, and often redifh. 
~ The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are not 
very numerous: they are narrow, and have no 
footftalks, 
FOREIGN SPECIES, 
Gr Bist 78 XIV. 
The flowers are large, of a beautiful blue, and 
hairy at the edge, and fland on the top of the 
ftalk, and on long, flender footftalks rifing from 
the bofoms of the upper leaves, d 
The feed-vefel is rough and oval, 
Tt gtows in Switzerland, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Campanula folii echii floribus 
villofs: Others; Tracheliun) Soltis echii. ; 
Bu White Throatwort, 
Trachelium album, 
Several kinds of throatwort have the flowers 
| accidentally white; but thof of this plant are na- 
turally fo; the others are only varieties of the {e- 
veral {pecies to Which they belong, but this is 
altogether difting., ; : : 
The root is long, thick, dividea into feveral 
parts, and of a redith brown. 
The leaves rife in a round tuft: they are 
little; thort, Pointed, and fomewhat hairy. 
The ftalks rife in the centre of thefe : they are 
numerous, upright, flriated, and a foot and a 
half high, ‘ 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, ahd are 
moderately large, oblong, undivided at the edge, 
and hairy; ; 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in 
thick” tufts : they are white, moderately large, 
and deeply divided into three feameits, a 
The feed-veffel is oval, rough, ahd divided 
into three cells) | ; 
Tt is a native 6F the mountainous parts of 
Switzerland, Germany, aiid Italy ; and fowers in 
Auguft. : ‘ 
C. Bauhine calls it Campanula alpina [pheroce- 
phalos. J. Bauhine, Trachelium majus petreums 
VENUS LOOKING-GLasg, 
SPECULUM VENE RIS. 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal divided into five fe 
gments at the edge. The feed-velfel is 
long, fingle, of a cornered fhape, and is divided into three cells within. 
Lianzus places this among his pentandria monogynia, the threads of t 
rudiment of the fruit fingle ; but he joi 
we fee it manifeftly differs in the form of the feed- 
DIV TS TON T 
x. Great Venus? Looking-glafs; 
Speculum Veneris major: 
The toot is fmall, long, woody, white, and 
furnifhed with many fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, véry much 
‘branched, and about {even or eight inches high : 
they do not ftand erect, but lean and bend. 
he flower being five, and the 
ns it, as of the fame genus, with the campanula, from which 
veffel, as well as in its general afpect: 
- BRITISH SPERCIDS, 
The leaves are fhort and broad : they are of a 
deep green colour, placed irregularly, often, as it 
wete in pairs in many parts, in others alternately 
and diftant: they are fharply ferrated at the edges; 
pointed at the ends, and broadeft in the tiddle 3 
and they have ho footftalks: 
The flowers ftand on the tops of the ftalks 
and branches: they are fmall, ‘of a deep purple, 
6 and 
