La soaps tia 
The DRITISH HE REA 
coat 
enclofing a fingle feed of the bignefS’ of ‘4 corn 
of wheat. é 2 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lepidium dentillaria diftumt: 
Others, Plumbago Plinii. 
2. Heart-leaved Leadwort. 
Plumbago foliis cordatis. 
The root confifts of a number of thick fibres, 
brown, tough, and hot to the tafte; filling the 
mouth with water when, chewed, in the manner 
of pyrethrum. 
The firft leaves are large, and of a deep gréen, 
they rife eight or ten together: they have long 
footftalks, and are oblong and broad, not dentated 
x nage anal 
at the edge, ‘heart-fafhioned at the bat, “and 
pointed, es i ie een 
The ftalk is round; fitm; upright, and two 
foot high. j i 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and res 
femble thofe from the root: the lower ones have 
confiderable footftalks 5 thofe on the upper part 
of the ftalk and branches have none. 
The: flowers are very beautiful, large, and 
fnow white. 
Their cup is hairy: 
rough. ) OR AE 
It is a native of Ceylon, bur: grows freely in 
our gardens, ' i aif Li 
Commelin calls it Lychnis Indica Spicata ocys 
moftri folios fructibus oblongis loppaceis, radiceurente, | 
the fruit is long and 
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LYCH NIDE A 
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SHE flower. confitts of afingle petal ;, the lower part is tubular, long, and bent; and the rimjs_. 
divided into five broad fegments : the fruit is a fingle capfule, of an oval figure, but with ‘three 
ridges, and contains threecells; the cup is formed of a fingle piece, 
divided into five fegments. , 
We have yet no Englifh name for this genus. 
marked with ten’ ridges, and 
,, Linnzus places it among the pentandria:monogynia ; the’ threads in each fower being five, and’the 
ftyle from the rudiment of the capfule fingle. 
This author takes away the received name of the genus, 
which it is beft known, - : 
1. Narrow-leaved hairy Lychnidea. | 
Lychnidea anguftifolia villofa. 
The root is long,: flender and creeping, 
’ The firft leaves rife in a very thick tuft: they. 
are long, narrow, and of a dufky green: they 
have no footftalks, and are alittle hairy. 
| The: ftalks. rifein the centre, and they. are 
round, firm, numerous, and a foot high: they 
are very little branched, and are of a brown co- 
lour, and a little hairy. 
“The leaves ftand in pairs, and have no foot- 
ftalks: they are long, narrow, and fharp-pointed, 
hairy, not at all divided at the edges, and of a 
beautiful green. 
The flowers ftand in a tuft at the top of the 
ftalks, and are large, and of a pale.red, fome- 
times of a deeper, and fometimes white: the 
cups are woolly. 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous. 
; Ivis frequent ia Virginia, and flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Lychnoides marilandica calyculis 
Januginofis foliis avgujtis acutis... Plukenet, Lych- 
nidea umbellifera blattarie accedens Virginiana major 
repens pfeudomelanthii folits pilofis flore pentapeta- 
lide fiftulofo. 
2. Small-leaved Lychnidea. 
Lychnidea foliis parvis. 
The root is long, flender, and full of fibres, 
The fhoots that firft fprout from it’ lie upon 
the ground, :and take root in numerous places, 
and calls it phlox : .we préferve that by 
| The ftalk is upright, round, firm, of a pale 
} green, a little hairy, and about fix inches high, 
| The leaves ftand in pairs upon it: they are 
very fmall, and not numerous: they are of a 
dufky green, and hairy, and generally droop ; 
they are narrow, oblong, and have no footftalks, 
From the bofoms of thefe rife young fhoots, 
which have the fame Kind of. leaves on’ them, 
but in agreater numbers as have alfo thofe which 
) firft come up, and which trail on the ground. 
The flowers are large and very beautiful : they 
have each its feparate hairy footftalk ; and they 
generally rife oppofite to one another. 
The feed-veffél is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous. : 
It is a native of Virginia. 
* Plukenet calls it Lychnidee blattarie accedens 
Virginiana minor repens, hirfutis camphorate feliis, 
Linnaeus, Phlox foliis fubulatis birfutis, floribus 
oppofitis. 
3: Narrow-leaved fmooth Lychnidea, ‘ 
““ Lychnidea anguftifolia glabra, 
The root is long, 
of fibres. 
The ftalk is round, tender, of a pale green, 
branched, not at all hairy, and five inches high, 
The leaves are very. numerous, and of a pale | 
, green: they ftand in pairs, and are extremely 
narrow; but they are broadeft at the bafe where 
they adhere to the ftalk;-and finaller all the way 
to the point. 
flender, creeping, and full 
The flowers are large, and ftand fingly at the 
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