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The BRITISH HERBAL 
: is am ‘dynami j ia ; i r being four. 
“Linneus places this among the didynamia one TP 5 Pe eae in each flowe ea i 
r v al acapfule. 
two longer, and two fhorter, and the feeds contained in a : 
We confufedly call two genera in Englith by the name of rattle, diftinguifhng them only by 
epithets taken from the colour of the flower into red and yellow rattle : 
they are alfo called coxco 
lowing genus the other : 
oo ¢ 
this is one of them, the fol- 
mb, and loufewort ; but both thefe names are given 
in common to the two genera, and have been ufed to the fame diftin€tion by an epithet expreffing the 
colour ‘of the Hower: we call them red coxcomb, and yellow coxcomby as well as rattle; and fome, 
though that be not fo univerfal, red and yellow low, 
ewort this difagreeable name is more confined to 
ved, but not fufficiently to make it a generical term diftinét from the other. ; é : . 
Ic will be feen.there is a yellow-flowered pedicularis 5 therefore another name is needful,. and we ca 
this coxcomb. It will be proper for the ftudent either to ufe this conftantly, or always to call them by 
their Latin names; thofe being fingle and diftinét words. ; 
DLV TS'T-OeN: hk 
i. Common red Coxcomb. 
Pedicularis rubra vulgaris. 
The root is long, thick, and divided into fe- 
veral parts: it is white and bitter. 
The firfl. leaves are large, broad, indented at 
the edges, and pointed at the ends: they are 
fo unlike thofe that follow that few would know 
the plant in this ftate. 
The ftalks are thick, green, weak, and not 
very upright: they are eight or ten inches long, 
and but little branched. 
The leaves ftand on them in great numbers, 
and are of a kind of pinnated form, each com- 
pofed of feveral pairs of {maller, fet on a middle 
rib, with an odd one at the end; and fome 
of the loweft are often doubly pinnated. 
The flowers ftand in a confiderable number on 
the tops of the ftalks: they are large, of a bright 
red, and have a great hollow cup: fometimes 
they are white: their cups are long, angulated, 
and fmooth. 
The feed-veflel is large and roundifh ; and the 
feeds are numerous and fimall. 
It is common in damp places on heaths, and 
flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Pedicularis pratenfis purpurea. 
Dadoneus, Fiftularia. Others, Pedicularis rubra 
vulgaris. 
DIVISION I. F 
Yellow Coxcomb. 
Pedicularis foliis pinnatis lutea. 
The root is compofed of a multitude of very 
large and thick’ fibres, and is whitifh, tough, 
and bitter. 
The firft leaves are large, long, and divided 
deeply to the rib in a pinnated manner: they 
feem compofed of many pairs of leffér ones, 
with an odd one at the end; but, nearer ex- 
amined, thefe are only fegments; and they are 
a deeply at the edges, and pointed at the 
ends. 
The ftalk is round, thick, hollow, redifh, and 
- two foot high, : 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are 
like thofe from the root, divided deeply in the 
pinnated manner, and fometiines they are com- 
BRITISH 
SUPs ba Cals Heo. 
2. Tall red Coxcomb, 
Pedicularis rubra elatior. 
The root is thick, large, and fpreading, 
whitifh, bitter, and full of fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, few in number, and 
not much divided. 
The flalks are round, green, thick, robutt, 
upright, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves are large, deeply divided in the pin- 
nated manner, and of a pale green, often redifh. 
The flowers are large, and ufually red, but 
fometimes, as in the other fpecies, they are white. 
The cups are not fo bloated as in the other fpe- 
cies; and they are rough on the furface: ufually 
they are divided only into two parts, inftead of 
five, at the extremity ; but this is uncertain, 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are fmall 
and brown, 
It is not uncommon in wet places, and flowers 
in July. . 
Tragus calls it Pedicudaris campeftris prior {pe- 
cies. Ray, Pedicularis rubra elatior. 
The virtues of thefe plants are not certainly 
known; but our farmers have an opinion that 
fheep feeding on them become fubjeét to vermin, 
whence the Englifh name J/oufewort: whatever 
foundation there may be for this, it is an opinion 
as old as Tragus ; and is not confined to Britain 
for the Flemith have it as well as we. : 
OREIGN SPECIES, 
poundly pinnated, or the fegments themfelves 
divided in the fame pinnated manner. 
The flowers ftand in a tuft at the top of 
the ftalk; and are large, and of a pale yellow, 
and fometimes white: they make a thick, fhort 
fpike, in the manner of the orchis flowers, and 
the upper fegment or galea is very crooked. 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds very 
{mall and brown. 
It is a native of Italy, and of many other parts 
of Europe; and flowers in June. 
Authors have been greatly divided as to the 
genus to which it belonged, and have thence 
called it by various names. 
_ Barrelier calls ic Aeéforolophus montana Slore 
Tusteo. C. Bauhine, Filipendula montana Slore pedi- 
cularie; Others, Filipendu’a montana, 
GENUS 
