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HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, formed into two lips and a long fpur : 
divided into four fegments, the lower into two, 
fembles the divifions of the flower, 
oval form, but compreffed at the top. 
and remains with the feed-veffel : 
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the upper lip is 
and the fpur runs out behind: the cup re- 
this is a fingle capfule, , of an 
Linnzus places this among the dyandria monogynia; the threads in the flower being two, and the 
_tudimént of the feed-veffel and its filament or ftyle fingle. 
From this number of the threads he places pinguicula in the fame genus with the jafmine, olive, and 
lilac, feparating it from the pedicularis, becaufe that has four, two longer and two fhorter 3 which, 
with the others, he therefore joins to other unlike plants. 
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x. Common Butterwort. 
Pinguicula vulgaris. 
The root confifts of numerous thick fibres, 
rifing from a longifh head, and fpreading irregu- 
larly under the furface. 
"The leaves are numerous, and rife in a. thick 
clufter. 
They have no footftalks: they are broadeft at 
the bottom, undivided at the edge, and fharp at 
the point: their colour is a pale yellowifh green, 
and they are of a flefhy fubftance. 
The ftalks rife in the centre, four or five to- 
gether. 
They are flender, naked, and undivided : each 
fupports a fingle flower. 
This is large, and vety beautiful: it tefembles, 
in fome degree, a violet: its colour is a pale 
purple, pale red, or white; for there are all thefe 
variations frequent, and it has a long fpur. 
The feed-veffel is large, oval, compreffed at 
the end, and Without any divifion within. “The 
feeds are numerous and very fmall. 
It is frequent in the north of England upon 
boggy ground, and flowers in June. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Sanicula montana flore cal- 
cari donato. Others, Pinguicula vulgaris. 
2. Lefler Butterwort. 
Pinguicula minor. 
The root is compofed of a great clufter of 
fibres, which have no other head than the bafe of 
the leaves: they are very flender, black, long, 
and run perpendicularly. 
The leaves are numerous, oblong, and lie 
{pread upon the ground. 
They are narrow toward the bafe, broadeft 
near the middle, and fmall again at the point : 
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their colour is a pale green, and they have red 
veins: they are thin, and, asit were, naked. 
The ftalks are flender, about three inchés high, 
and quite fingle or undivided. 
One flower ftands on the top of each, and 
this is fmall, and of a pale red, or white: the 
fpur in this is thicker and fhorter than in the 
common kind. : : 
The feed-veffel is fmall, and the feeds are very 
minute, and of a dufky colour. 
It is frequent in Cornwal and our other weftern 
counties on bogs’; elfewhere it is rare, 
Tt flowers in May. ; ; 
Merret callsit Pinguicula minima flore albos that 
is, butterwort with a white flower; but the 
more ufual colour is red. Ray calls it Pinguicula 
flore minore carneo. . 
The common butterwort has confiderable virtues 
both inwardly and outwardly; but they are not 
much known out of the places where it grows, 
becaufe it can ‘neither be well kept in our gardens 
nor brought frefh to our: markets. 
The whole plant, bruifed with white wine, and 
the juice, expreffed, and taken thick as it comes 
from fqueezing, is a rough but ufeful medicine 
in dropfies. ‘ 
A fyrup made of the juice has the fame virtue, 
but in a milder degree, It is a good purge, and 
operates alfo by urine. 
The people of Yorkhire make an ointment of 
the leaves and hogs-lard, with which they drefs 
chaps and injuries in their cows udders: this has 
led them to ufe it for hurts and fores upon them- 
felves; and it ftands, upon experienced report, 
as an excellent vulnerary. 
Thofe to whom we owe the knowledge of it 
thence called the plant Yorkfbire fanicle. 
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