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The leaves ftand ufually in pairs, but fome- 
~ times three rife from the fame point. 
They are of a heart-fathioned fhape, fhort and 
broad, and dented round the edges. 
The flowers ftand feveral together on fhort 
footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the leaves ; 
they are {mall and yellow. naa 
aie feed -veffel is large and roundifh; and the 
feeds are numerous and fimall. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scropbularia flore lutea. 
Clufius makes it akind of dead nettle: he calls it 
Lamium pannonicum fecundum. 
2. Jagged yellow Figwort. 
Scrophularia lutea laciniata. 
The root is long, thick, oblique, and fur- 
nifhed with numerous fibres. . 
The leaves that rife firft from it are very large, 
and deeply divided: they ftand on long foot- 
flalks, and are of a beautiful green. 
The ftalk is firm, ereét, brown, and two feet 
and a half high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and are Jarge, and 
deeply ferrated: they have frequently two ap- 
pendages or fmall leaves growing on their foot- 
ftalk near the bafe, in the manner of thofe of the 
common water figwort. 
Thofe toward the bottom of the ftalk approach 
more to the divifions of thofe from the root; and 
thofe near the top are longer and narrower, and 
very deeply and fharply jagged. 
The flowers are large and yellow, and ftand 
feveral together on footftalks rifing from the bo- 
foms of the leaves. 
The feed-veffels are large and roundifh; and 
the feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is a native of Spain and Portugal, and 
flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scrophularia foliis laciniatis. 
Others, Scropbhularia fambuci folio flore magno. 
4. Nettle-leaved Figwort. 
Scrophularia urtice folio, 
The root is long and thick, and has many 
large fibres. 
* The ftalk is fquare, firm, and lightly hairy, 
very much branched, and two feet high, 
G. Be Ne, 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and have long foot- 
ftalks: they are large, and of a fhining green, 
broad at the bafe, narrower to the point, and 
indented fharply all the way on the edges. 
The flowers are placed all the way up the ftalk 
and branches, and have long footftalks ; each of 
which fplits toward the top, and holds two 
flowers: they are large, and of a bright red. 
The feed-veflel is large, roundifh, and point-: 
ed; and the feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Scropbularia urtice folio; 
and moft others have followed him. 
5. Pinnated Figwort. 
Scrophularia folits pinnatis. 
The root is long, thick, and hung with many 
large fibres. 
The leaves that rife firft from it are long, nar- 
row, and deeply divided at the edges, the cuts 
going almoft to the middle rib: they have no 
footftalks, and-are of a fhining, deep green. 
The ftalks are numerous, firm, upright, and 
of adeep brown: they are {carce at all branched, 
and are a foot and half high. 
The leaves ftand on them in pairs, and are 
deeply divided; fo that they appear pinnated 
each feems compofed of about three pair of pin- 
ng, with an odd one at the end, and thefe are 
deeply jagged. 
The flowers ftand on the tops of the ftalks, 
and are very numerous, fmall, and of a dark 
purple colour. , 
The feed-veffels are large, roundifh, and 
pointed ; and the feeds are {mall and brown. 
It a native of Italy and Germany ; and flowers 
in July. iets: 
C. Bauhine calls it Scrophularia ruta canina 
dita. The common writers call it Ruta caning, — 
and Dogs rue. 
All thefe fpecies of figwort have the fame kind 
of tafte, and moft of them the fame fmell 
with our common wild ‘kind; and they are cele- 
brated for the fame virtues, They are accounted 
great medicines againft fcorbutick and other foul- 
nefles; and pultices of their leaves are nade for 
the piles. The common wild kind of our woods 
feems to have more virtue than any of them, 
though natives of warmer climates. 
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FOX EOV.E. 
DT Gerad 0 Te 
4 ae flower confifts of a fingle petal, which is long 
is divided into four fegments at the edge, remotely approaching t th i 
upper lip is broad and divided, and the under one la he Fae ee ogD ss the 
and the feed-veffe] is large, of an oval form, 
and pointed at the 
and hollow like the finger of a glove, and 
rger: the cup is divided into five fegments ; 
: s an el pees yok 
. Linnzus places this among his didynamia angiofpermia ; the thre 
of which are longer and two fhorter, and the fee 
This diftinétion of that celebrated author com 
clafs, that it fhews how nature is fimilar, 
this is all that fhould have been inferred 
threads in each flower being four, 
vation into a larger ufe, 
ads in each flower being four, two 
ds contained in a capfule. 
prifes fo many o 
even in the finalleft parts 
from the curious and jut 
and two of them longer and two 
and made it the foundation of a clafs, it failed hi 
4 
f the plants properly of our prefent 
» inplants allied to one another: but 
obfervation of that writer, of the 
thorter: when he carried this obfer- 
m, and mifled his readers. 
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