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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
’ The fecd-veffel is large and round, and the 
feeds are f{mall. ; 
C. Bauhine calls it Blattaria purpurea. J. Bau- 
chine, Blattaria flore ceruleo five purpureo. 
2. Red Moth Mullein. 
Blattaria flore rubente foliis ferratis. 
The root is long, large, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are numerous, large, and fer- 
rated: they are long, moderately broad, and have 
no footftalks. 
The ftalk is round, thick, upright, firm, and 
three feet high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are like 
thofe from the root, long, large, deeply ferrated, 
and fharp-pointed: they have no footftalks, and 
they generally hang downward. 
The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalk in a 
very long and thick fpike, with fome long, nar- 
row leaves intermixed among them: they are 
large, and of a beautiful mixed red, not a bright, 
gaudy colour, but an extreamly pleafing tin&t: 
when nearly examined there is a mixture of blue 
and of orange, but the red is the predominant 
colour. 
The feed-veffels are large and round. 
It is a native of France, and flowers in Au- 
tumn, 
Morifon calls it Blattaria perennis flore obfo- | 
keti coloris ; and others have in general copied the 
fame name. 
GBs Nei U: 
3. Jagged Moth Mullein. 
Blattaria foliis diffectis. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are numerous and fmall: they 
rife in a tuft, and fpread on the ground like the 
rays of a ftar: they have no footftalks, and they 
are long, white, hoary, and deeply divided. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, flender, and 
about ten inches high. 
The leaves ftand thick upon them, and are 
hoary, white, and cut down to the middle rib in 
feveral places; fo that they have a pinnated 
afpect. 
The flowers are fmall, and the feed-veffels alfo 
fmall, but round. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in June. 
Boccone calls it Blattaria imana multifida. 
thers copy the fame name. 
O- 
The root of the common moth mulleinis aftringent, 
but in an inferior degree to that of the common 
white mullein, We have no account, from any au- 
thentick hand, of the virtues of the other fpecies ; 
but fome of them have an acrid tafte, and feem 
of different qualities. They are accounted among 
the number of vulnerary plants in Germany; but 
almoft every thing growing has in fome places 
that character. 
S XXVIE. 
SPEEDWELL. 
VERONICA. 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, which is tubular in the lower 
fegments at the edge: the fruit is a fingle capfule, 
compreffed at the top, and containing two cells : 
the fruit. 
Linnzus places this among his dyandria monog ynia, the 
two, and the ftyle frem the rudiment of the capfule fingle. 
DELO Vere Site O tN T: 
1. Little fmooth Speedwell. 
Veronica glabra parva. 
The root is compofed of numerous, flender, 
long fibres. 
The ftalks are weak, round, fmooth, and nu- 
merous: they lie in part upon the ground, and 
in part raife themfelves up: they take root fre- 
quently where they trail upon the ground, and 
thence fend up fhoots that thicken the tuft: the 
part of the ftalk that is ere&t is four or five 
inches high. 
The leaves ftand im pairs : they are little, of 
an oval figure, and of a pale but pretty green, 
perfeétly fmooth, and undivided at the edges. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a faint bluifh 
white: they ftand on fhort footft 
alks rifine: fr 
the bofoms of the leaves, ate 
and run up at the top 
the cup is divided into four par 
| every where by way-fi 
part, and divided into four 
of a turbinated and heartfafhioned fhape, 
ts, and remains with 
threads in the centre of the flower being 
BRITISH SPECIES, 
of the ftalks into a kin 
fpike. 
us feed-vefiel is {mall and flat. 
t is a native of every part of Europe i 
no country fo frequent as in England ee ae 
des and in paftures. Ir 
d of loofe, irregular 
flowers in May. 
C. Bauhine calls jt Veronica 
( bratenfis ferpylli- 
Solia. Others, Veronica Pratenfis Pe SF 
med Pauli ferpylifolia. Yn Englith it is called 
pagel Speedwell, fmooth Jiuellin, and Payj?s be- 
ony. 
There may be confufion ff 
Jtuellin, becaufe it is 
of a very different pla 
place hereafter. 
om the name of 
the received Englith name 
nt, to be defcribed in its 
3. Little, 
