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The ftalks are procumbent or hanging, and the leaves are cornered and fmooth. istry 
Linnzus places this among his didynamia angiofpermia ; the flower having four threads in it, two 
longer, and two fhorter, and the feeds being contained in a capfule. Lok : 
He does not allow it to be a diftinét genus, but makes it, as well as all the daria and ¢latine, 
{pecies of antirrbinum or fnapdragon. 
The flower and feed-veffel of this genus agree with thofe of the Auaria; but the manner of 
growth and form of the leaves are perfectly diftinét: it has alfo an antient and received name, which 
J have therefore preferved, as there is fufficient diftinction. an 
If generical characters are to be taken folely from the flowers and feed-veffels of plants, this is a 
fpecies of lizaria, however different it be in the general form and afpect; but there are no laws, 
eftablifhed on that head, on an inviolable authority : if the leaves and other parts of plants may, when 
there is occafion, be taken into the generical character, this is a perfectly diftinét genus. ; 
- Nothing tends more to perplex the ftudent than multiplication of fpecies under the fame generical 
name: on the other hand, nothing more facilitates the ftudy than a fufficient number of genera, I 
write to make the fcience familiar. 
There is but one known fpecies of this genus, and that is a native of Britain, though not very 
common. 
Ivy-leaved Cymbalaria. 
Cymbalaria fotiis hedere. 
The root is compofed of a multitude of fibres, 
rifing from a fmall head, 
The firft leaves are large, fhort, broad, and 
cornered in two or three parts near the bafe; each 
of thefe corners, and the main body of the leaf, 
alfo terminate in fharp points: the whole leaf is 
of a deep green colour and glofly furface, and 
ftands on a lender purplith footftalk. 
The ftalks are numerous and weak: they lie 
upon the ground, or upon the furface of a wall : 
they are a foot or more in length, not much 
branched, and are of a deep purplifh colour. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and have 
long, flender footftalks. 
They are broad, cornered, and fharp-poiited, 
and are of a fmooth furface, and deep, glofly 
green. 
The flowers are very numerous and {mall : 
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they rife from the bofoms of the leaves all the 
way up the ftalk, and are fupported on long, 
flender pedicles: they refemble thofe of fuellin 
in fhape, but are of an uniform pale red colour. 
The feed-veffel is fmall and’ roundifh: the 
feeds are numerous and black. 
It isa native of our northern counties, and 
flowers in June. We fee it wild on the walls of 
the Thames about Batterfea, and on the walls of 
the apothecaries phyfick garden in Chelfea; but 
in both thefe places it has doubtlefs rifen from 
feeds or parts of the plant thrown out from that 
or from fome other garden. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cymbalaria. 
naria bederaceo folio glabro. 
Others, Li- 
It is cooling and aftringent. 
A conferve made of the leaves is good in the 
overflowing of the menfes, in {pitting of blood, 
in diarrhaeas with fharp and bloody ftools, and 
in the fluor albus, ; 
VI. 
FIGWORT. 
SCROPHULARIA. 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and is of an irregular figure, fomewhat approaching to 
the labiated kind, and open: it is formed into a large, rounded tube, and a very {mall edge : 
the edge is divided into five fegments; two ftand uppermoft, and are large ; two ftand fide-ways, 
and f{pread open 5 and the fifth is undermoft, and turns back. : ; 
The cup is divided into five parts; and the feed-veffel is roundifh, 
Linnzus places this among his didynamia angiofpermia ; the threads in each flower being four, two 
longer, and two fhorter; and the feeds contained in a capfule, = ; 
DIVISION J, 
1. Common Figwort. 
Scrophularia vulgaris. 
The root is long and thick, and has a great 
quantity of {mall, tuberous pieces growing to it. 
The ftalk is fquare, firm, upright, and three 
foot high: it is not much branched, and is 
ufually of a brown colour, ; 
_ The leaves ftand in pairs, and are large and 
beautiful: they have long footftalks, and are 
' broad, oblong, and of a deep green colour, and 
very frequently brown, as is alfo the ftalk : they 
BRITISH 
S3PEE CG ohnas! 
are broadeft toward the bafe i 
and indented at the edges, : rae coe ae 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalk and 
branches, and are fmall, and of a deep dufky 
colour, with a mixture of greenifh: they open 
wide at the mouth, and fhew the buttons on 
the tops of the threads, which are of a deep 
yellow. 
The feed-veffel ig large, rounded, and fharp 
at the top. 
The feeds are numerous and fmall, 
It 
