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It is a native of Germany and Switzerland, 
and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sanicula Alpina rotundifolia. 
4, Long-leaved Auricula. 
Auricula foliis oblongis integerrimis. 
The root is a bunch of thick fibres, rifing from 
a {mall oblong head. 
The leaves are numerous, and they rife in a 
thick clufter: they are long, narrow, fharp- 
pointed, and undivided at the edges: they have 
no footftalks : their colour is a bright-glofly green 
on the upper-fide, and paler underneath. 
The ftalk rifes in the centre of the tuft, and is 
four inches high. 
The flowers grow in a fmall tuft at the top ; 
often there are but two or three, rarely more than 
five: they are large, and irregularly divided into 
' fegments, which are deeply cut in, and pointed 
in the divifions: the cup is tubulous and ob- 
tufe. 
It isa native of Switzerland, and flowers in 
May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sanicula Alpina rubefcens fo- 
lio non ferrato. Others, Auricula longifolia. 
Gar 
5. Dwarf Auricula. 
Auricula pumila. 
The root is long, flender, and furnithed with 
numerous fibres, 
The leaves rife in a clufter, and are very fmall; 
they have no footftalks, and they are of a very 
fingular fhape, narroweft at the bottom, broadett 
at the top, and there deeply indented : the outer 
leaves of thefe little clufters are fmalleft, and the 
inner ones longeft and largeft, and of the frethett 
green. 
The ftalks tife among thefe; and are round, 
flender, fhort, and very minute, like the reft of , 
the plant. : 
The flowers are large, and very beautiful: 
they are of a fnow-white fometimes, and fome= 
times they have a bluth of redith. One com- 
monly ftands on each ftaik. i 
The feed-veffel is oblong, and the feeds are 
very minute. 
It is a native of Germany, and flowers in 
April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sanicula Alpina minima car- 
nea. Others, Auricula urfi minima, 
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NAR] BE WO Ror 
ANDROSACE. 
is Bee flower confifts of a fingle petal, which is tubular, and of an oval form in the lower parts 
and is divided into five fegments at the edge. 
The feed-veffel is a fingle, round capfule, having only one cell, and opening at the top: the cup 
is formed of one piece, pentangular, and divided into five fegments. 
Linnaeus places this among the pentandria monogynia, the threads in the flower being five, and the 
flyle from the rudiment of the capfule fingle. 
1. Great Navelwort. 
Androface major. 
The root is long, flender, and has few fibres. 
The leaves rife in a thick tuft ; and are large, 
oblong, and fharply ferrated : they have no foot- 
ftalks; they are of a pale green; and they are 
ribbed lengthwife, in the manner of plantain 
leaves. 
In the centre of this tuft rife the ftalks : they 
are numerous, weak, flender, naked, and about 
feven inches high: commonly of a pale green, 
but often purplith. 
The flowers are fmall and white : they ftand at 
the tops of the ftalks in little tufts, after the 
manner of thofe of the cowflip or auricula, each 
on its own long footftalk, 
The feed-veffels follow, and are round and 
large. | 
At the top of the ftalk, where the flower-ftalks 
rife, there is a {mall clufter of little leaves, which 
may be called a general cup. 
It is common in the corn-fields of Germany, 
and flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Aine officiis androface difta 
major. Others, Androface Mathioli major. 
2. Hairy Navelwort. 
Androface villofa. 
The root:is long, flender, tough, divided jn- 
to many parts, and covered with a blackith bark, 
The leaves rife in round tufts : they are nume- 
rous, very fmall, and oblong they have no 
footftalks: their colour is a pale green, and they 
are very hairy. 
The ftalks rife in the centre of thefe tufts of 
leaves, one ufually from each: they are fmall, flen- 
der, hairy, weak, and about three inches high, 
There are no leaves on thefe, except a few at 
the top, which form a kind of general cup 
for the flowers. ; 
from the fummit of the ftalk, where the leaves 
grow, rife alfo ten or a dozen fhort pedicles, cach 
fupporting a fingle flower < thefe are large for the 
bignefs of the plant; and are either white, or of a 
beautiful pale red, 
The feed-veffel is large and round. 
It is a native of the Pyrenean mountains, and 
flowers in fpring. 
Authorshave not wellknown where to place it; 
C. Bauhine calls it Sedum Alpinum birfutum lac- 
teoftore J.Bauhine, Chamejafme Alpina, Others, 
Sedum Alpinum villofum. 
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