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high: its colour is ufvally a pale green, fome- 
times redifh; and it is lightly hairy, and very 
much branched. 
The leaves grow irregularly : fome toward the 
lower part of the ftalk generally ftand in pairs, 
but the greater part alternately: they have no 
footftalks : they are broad, oblong, large, of a 
dufky green, and rough furface; dented at the 
edges, and pointed at the ends. if 
The flowers rife fingly, from the bofoms of 
Dolovel s.l-OeNe. It, 
1. Narrow-leaved yellow Eyebright. 
Eupbhrofia anguftifolia flava. 
‘The root is fmall, long, and furnifhed with a 
few fibres: it is whitifh, woody, and crooked. 
The ftalk is angulated or ridged, and appears 
fquare: it is flender, but firm, upright, branched, | 
and a foot and half high, 
‘The leaves are long, and very narrow: they 
{tand in pairs without footftalks, and are of a 
dufky green, dented at the edges and fharp- 
pointed. 3 
The flowers are very numerous: they ftand in 
jong, clofe feries all up the tops of the branches, 
and are {mall, and of a gold yellow. 
The feed-vefiel is oval, but oblong; and the 
feeds are {mall and whitifh. 4 
It is frequent in Italy and Spain, and flowers 
in Auguft. 
€.Bauhine: calls it Euphrafia pratenfis lutea. 
“Columa,: Eupbrafia lutea montana anguftifolia 
altera. 
2. Eyebright, with three-pointed leaves. 
Eupbrafia foliis tricufpidatis. 
The root is very flender, white, longifh, 
erooked, and furnifhed with numerous fibres. 
The ftalk is round, firm, redifh, fomewhat |. 
branched, and of a purplifh colour. 
The leaves ftand alternately, and have no 
footftalks: they are very narrow; and undivided 
‘at the edges till they come toward the end, where 
they are broader than in any other part, and have 
two notches oppofite to one another, which give 
the tip of the leaf a three-pointed appearance. 
The flowers ftand in the bofoms of the leaves 
all the way up the tops of the ftalks: they are 
fmall, and of a whitith red. 
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the leaves all the way up to the top-part of the 
ftalk ; and they are large and yellow. 
The feed-veffel is oblong, and the feeds are 
very fmall and redith. , 
It is a native of Cormwal, and of the ifland of 
Jerfey ; and flowers in July, 
J. Bauhine calls it Crife galli afinis planta 
Romana, feu Crifte galli major Ttalica. Ray, Eu- 
pbrafia major lutea latifolia paluftris, 
REIGN §PECTeE Ss 
The feed-veffels are oblong, and the feeds 
are fall. ; 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in Augutft. 
Linnzus calls it Euphrofia foliis inearibus tricufs 
pidatis. 
3. Low purple Eyebright: 
Euphrafia pumila flore rubra. 
This is a very fmall, but fingular and pretty 
fpecies. 
The root is fmall, oblong, divided, and hung 
about with many fibres. ‘ 
The ftalk is angulated, “fhort, redifh, and 
fomewhat hairy: it is feldom at all branched, 
and is about four inches high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and have no foot- 
ftalks: they are fhort, broad, and very deeply 
indented, in fuch a manner that they refemble 
the fingered leaves of thofe plants which have 
them divided down to the bafe into narrow and 
long fegments, : 
The flowers are large for the bignefs of the 
plant, and purple. 
The feed-veffels are large, and the feeds whitifh. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Eupbrafia pratenfis latifolia 
Italica, Columna, Eupbrajfia latifolia pratenfis. 
Thefe feveral. fpecies agree in virtues with the 
common Englifh kind, and are in the fame de- 
gree of eftimation there that ours is here, 
This plant bruifed and laid upon the eyes in 
cafes of inflammations is a fpeedy remedy. They 
throw a large quantity of it into their wine as it is 
making, and keep it for old mens drinking, to 
preferve their fight. They alfo eat the young 
fhoots and tops of the feveral fpecies among their - 
fallading for the fame purpofe. 
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COW-WHEAT, 
MELAMPYRUM™ 
THE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and approaches to the labiated fhape: it is formed into a 
tube and two lips: the tube is long and crooked: the upper lip is galeated, flatted, and niped 
at the top, and turns back at the edges: the lower lip is divided into three equal blunt fegments, and 
has two eminences in the middle. 
The cup is tubular, and lightly divided into four fegments: the feed-veffel is oblong; flatted, and 
pointed at the cop. 
Linneus places this among the didynamia angiofpermia, the threads in each flower being four ; two 
longer, and two fhorter: and the feeds contained in a capfule. 
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