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TOE, Ee BR 1; 5} A OE BRP BeAr, 
or cowflip, ten or twelve together, on flender, 
Jong footftalks, rifing from the fame point at the 
top of the main ftalk. 
The feed-veffel is oblong, and furrowed length- 
wife; and the feeds are numerous and {mall. 
It is a native of Germany, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sanicula montana latifolia 
Gk 
NU 
BEE PAU Rags 
The common writers, Curtufa, and 
Clufius, Suniucla alpina. 
lacinata. 
Cortufa mathioli. 
It is one of the famous wound-herbs of the 
Germans ; but its virtues are not eftablithed by 
any known experience. 
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EAR, 
IV. 
ALUPR: ICU LA: 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, tubular in the lower part, and divided into five broad 
] fegments: the feed-veflel is fingle and oblong, and the cup is very fhort, and divided into 
five fegments : the leaves are flefhy. 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria monogynia, the threads in the flower being five, and the 
rudiment of the capfule and its ftyle fingle: but he denies it to be a particular genus. He confiders 
it as a fpecies of cowflip. But from that 
flefhy fubftance of the leaves. 
He thus takes away its ufual and received name auricula 5 
own language, though we in general pronounce it ill: 
neglected, 
1. Common yellow Auricula, 
Auricula vulgaris lutea. 
The root is compofed of a gteat many thick 
fibres, which fpread every way, and penetrate 
deep. 
The leaves rife in a little clufter fix or eight 
together. 
They are broad, oblong, of a whitith colour, 
lightly ferrated at the edges, and of a thick, 
flefhy fubftance. 
The ftalk is round, thick, four or five inches} 
high, and naked. 
The flowers are large, open, and beautiful: 
they fland<in a little clufter at the top of the 
ftalk, each having its own feparate footftalk, 
Their colour is yellow; but in this there is great 
variety. In nature it is of all the degrees of yel- 
low, from the deepeft to the paleft, and to abfo- 
lute white ; and culture introduces variegations 
‘of many more kinds. f 
It is a native of Switzerland, and other of the 
northern parts of Europe, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sanicula Alpina lutea. Ji 
Bauhine, Auricula urfi Jlore luteo. 
Many of the auriculas defcribed as diftin® {pe- 
cies by authors, are no other than varieties of 
this plant rifing from culture: but Linnzus is 
rafh in making all thofe we fee of that kind. 
There are three diftin& and original {pecies of 
this genus; from thefe three, culture has raifed 
all that amazing and beautiful variety we fee in 
gardens; but not from this one. 
2. Narrow-leaved red Auricula. 
Auricula anguftifolia flore rubente, 
The root is compofed of numerous, long, and 
flender fibres. 
The leaves rife in a {mall tuft ten or twelve to- 
gether, and have no footftalks: they are long, 
nhatrow, of a deep green, more or lefs covered 
genus it palpably differs in the fhortnefs of the cup, and the 
a name we have introduced into our 
the proper name of this plant Zears car being 
Our gardeners preferve the word auricula; but they fpeak it riculas, 
with a greyifh duft, fharp-pointed, and ferrated 
at the edges, 
The ftalk is three inches high, thick, naked, 
round, and of a pale colour. 
The flowers ftand in a clufter at the top, and 
are large, and of a bright red: each has its fepa- 
rate long footftalk, and they ftand very up- 
right. 
The feed-veffel is oblong, and the feed mi- 
nute. 
It is a native of the Apennines. I have fpeci- 
mens of it colleéted in its wild ftate there, which 
thew it a perfectly diftin® fpecies; as is alfo the 
next to be defcribed. There is no judging by 
what one fees in gardens, where the accidents 
occafioning varieties are endlefs : but in thefe col- 
le&ted wild there is no error. 
C. Bauhine calls this Sanicula Alpina anguftifo- 
lia. J. Bauhine, Auricula unfit anguftifolia colore 
rubente. We, Red auricula. 
3- Round-leaved red Auricula. 
Auricula foliis fubrotundis Sore rubente. 
The root confifts of a {mall head, anda great 
multitude of fibres. 
The leaves are numerous and ere& : they 
ftand ona kind of footftalks 3 but thofe are rather 
a continuation of the bafe of the leaf, than any 
thing regularly demanding that name: they are 
fhort, broad, rounditfh, and of a pale green : 
they are obtufe, and tharply ferrated, and of a- 
thick, flethy fubftance. 
The ftalk rifes in the centre, and is thick, 
firm, upright, naked, and about four inches 
high. 
The flowers are large, and of a beautiful red : 
they ftand in a tuft at the top of the ftalk, each 
having its feparate and proper footftalk, 
The feed-veffel is oblong, and the feed is 
fmall, 
It 
