Th BRITISH HERBAL 
It is common in the woods of Sweden and 
fome parts of Germany ; and flowers in July. 
Morifon calls it Pyrola fingulari flore ampliore. 
Linnzeus, Pyrola {capo uniflore. 
2. Shrubby Wintergreen. 
Pyrola fruticofa. 
This is the moft hardy of all the Pyrole. 
Its root is long, flender, and woody, and runs 
under the furface, fending up tufts of leaves and 
ftalks in many places: thefe, when they have 
rifen to flowering, bend downward with the 
weight of the leaves, and, burying themfelves in 
the deep mofs among which they ufually grow, 
remain, and become as it were fhrubby, fending 
up young fhoots another year. 
The ftalks are green, tender, and weak before 
they take this turn; afterwards they become 
harder, brown, and woody. - . 
The leaves which rife firft are oblong, broad, 
ferrated, of a brownifh green, and without foot- 
ftalks: they only appear, as the firft fhoot, and 
foon decay. 
Thofe on the branches are of the fame form, 
and they ufually ftand thick together: they are 
narroweft at the bafe, broader toward the end, 
and have no footftalks : they are of a pale green, 
and fharply ferrated. 
The ftalks terminate in long, naked pedicles, 
which divide into three or four leffer at the top, 
and on each of thefe ftands a fingle flower: this 
is large, white, and compofed of five fesments, 
uniting at the bafe only; fo that they feem five 
difting: petals. 
GEN, SU eS 
The feed-veffel is large, fhort, and brown. 
Itisa native of Germany and of many parts 
of Afia and America; and flowers in Augutft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Pyrola Sruticans arbuti folio, 
Clufius, Pyrola tertia Srutefcens, 
3- Broad-leaved Wintergreen. 
Pyrola folio latiore. ” 
The root is long, fender, woody, brown, and 
{preading. 
The firft leaves are few and broad: they 
have fhort footftalks, and are not at all divided 
or ferrated at the edges. 
The ftalks are numerous, firm, and round, 
but flender, 
The leaves grow ufually three from the fame 
part of the ftalk, but this not uniformly or cer- 
tainly : fometimes there are two, fometimes only 
one: they are large, broad, and not at all fer- 
rated: they have fhort footftalks; and their co- 
lour is a pale green. 
The flowers are large, beautiful, and white: 
they grow with the fame uncertainty as the leaves, 
fometimes one, fometimes two, and fometimes 
three, on the fame footftalk. Pihaels 1 
The feed-veffel is large, ribbed, and depreffed. 
It is common in the woods of North America, 
and flowers in June. : 
Gronovius calls it Pyrola petiolis apice bifloris 
vel trifloris. Petiver; Pyrola marilandica minor 
folio mucronata arbuti, 
The virtues of thefe have not been tried, but 
the tafte fhews them to be in general fubaftrin« 
gent, as the common kind, 
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XXV. 
MULLEIN, 
VERBASCUM 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, with a fhort tubular part at the bottom, and divided deeply 
into five fegments, which are ufually large and broad: the fruit is a fingle capfule following every 
flower ; this is of a fhort, turbinated, or conic figure, 
into five fegments. 
and contains two cells: the cup is divided 
Linnzus places this among his pentandria monogynia; the threads being five in each fower, and the 
ftyle rifing from the rudiment of the fruit fingle.. 
DEV TSO OLN oT: 
x. White Mullein. 
Verbafcum album. 
This plant is named white, not from its flow- 
ers, for they are yellow, but from the fingular 
whitenefs of its leaves. 
The root is long, large, divided, and furnifhed 
‘with a vaft many fibres. 
The firft leaves are very large, numerous, and 
white: they have no footftalks: they are a foot 
‘and half long, and half as much or nearly in 
breadth. 
The ftalk is firm, thick, upright, hard, and 
covered with leaves. 
‘Thefe are of the fame’ shape and colour with 
thofe at the root, only they are fmaller, 
BR ITS HS PEC CEs 
The flowers ftand in a very long and thick 
{pike at the top of the plant: they are not large, 
but are of a beautiful yellow. 
The feed veffel is large and brown. 
It is common by way fides, and flowers in 
July. 
C, Bauhine calls it Verba/cum mas latifolium Iu 
teum, Others, Verbafcum album, and Tapfus bare 
batus. We call it White mullein, Cows lungwort, 
and in fome places High taper. 
2. Hoary white Mullein, 
Verbafcum pulverulentum album, 
The flowers of this are yellow, as well as thofe 
of the former, and it obtains. its name in the 
fame 
