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BRITISH HERBAL. 
3. Narrow-leaved Navelwort. 
Androface anguftifolia. 
The root is fmall, long, divided, and furnifhed 
with a few fibres. 
“The leaves are long and narrow: they rife in 
clufters, feveral from one root ; fo that the firft 
appearance of the plant is a complicated tuft : 
they are of a pale green, fmooth on the furface, 
and undivided at the edges. ° 
The ftalks rife from the centre of thefe tufts, 
and are weak, flender, and naked; except that 
they have fometimes a little membrane, fometimes 
twoor more, juft where the footftalk of the fower 
fprings. 
The flower is large and white; fometimes there 
is one grows ona ftalk, fometimes there are more. 
The {eed-veffel is large and round, and the 
feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is a native of the mountainous parts of Au- 
ftria, and flowers in fpring. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Sedum Alpinum gramineo fo- 
lio laéteo flore. 
4. Sharp leaved Navelwort. 
Androface foliis acuminatis. 
The root is long, flender, fibrous, and black. 
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MOUNTAIN 
The leaves rife in little clufters, and fpread 
themfelves in a round form: they are narrow, of 
a deep green, fmooth, and fharp pointed: they 
are broadeft at the bafe, where they adhere to the 
top of the root; they thence grow fmaller to the 
point, and they have no footftalks: there rife fe- 
veral long fhoots among thefe clufters of leaves, 
that lie on the ground, and take root as they 
fpread; and others that raife themfelves up- 
wards. 
The ftalk that fupports the flowers is naked © 
two or three inches high, and of a whitifh 
green. ; : 
The flowers are large, and of a pale ficth 
colour: they are placed on fhort pedicles, 
are or ten of which rife from the top of the 
alk. 
The feed-veffel is round and large: the feeds 
are numerous, and fmall. 
It isa native of Switzerland, and flowers in 
May. 
C.Bauhine calls it, Sedum alpinum anguftiffimo 
folio flore carneo. 
The virtues of thefe plants are unknown, 
U.S Vi. 
BINDWEED. 
SOLDANELLA MONTANA. 
rDHE flower confifts of a fingle petal, which is tubular at the bottom, and expanded and divided 
into five deep, narrow, and, as it were, ragged fegments at the edge. s 
The feed-veffel is long and pointed, and the cup is divided into five fegments. 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria monogynia , the threads being five in each flower, and the 
ftyle from the rudiment of the capfule fingle. 
The generality of authors have joined it with the common feldanella; but it differs from that by 
obvious charaéters, and plainly is a plant of its own kind, and of a peculiar genus. 
I have avoided the error of confounding it with the other, but have retained its antient name, that 
it may’ be known at once here. S ‘ eg 
Linneus, ftudying critical exactnefs more than utility, gives the name of /oldanella to this plant 
alone; making the other a fpecies of convoluulus ; and fuch it properly is. While its diftiné: ee was 
given to no other plant there could arife no error from that practice; but the ftudent will not find 
in this herb the virtues recorded of foldanella: he is therefore to know this only with the addition 
of an epithet ; and is to undcrfland ftill, that the fingle word foldanella belongs to the other; not to 
this plant. . 
Of this genus there is but one known fpecies. 
Mountain Bindweed. 
Soldanella. 
This is not the only plant called bindweed, 
which has not a winding ftalk: the name was 
firft given to fome of the fpecies that had; and 
afterwards continued to fuch as had not. 
The root of this is long and furnifhed with 
many fibres: it runs obliquely under the furface, 
and {preads greatly. sf 
The leaves rife in a large clufter, and ftand on 
long, redifh footftalks: they are fmall, roundifh, 
and {mooth, 
‘The ftalks rife among thefe, and are round 
thick, eight inches high, and naked. : 
The flowers grow at the tops in a kind of 
tuft, four, five, or more together: they have 
each its own feparate footftalk, and fpread out 
in the manner of cowflips. 5 
The feed-veffels are large and long, and the 
feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is a native of the Pyrenean mountains, 
Its virtues are not known. 
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