128 The BRIT I 
SHLAA E RBA. 
From this rife feveral {talks together: they are 
round, weak, fender, and naked, except at the 
bafe near the ground, where they have fome little 
membranes in the place of leaves. 
The whole plant is: not more than four inches 
high; and at the top of the ftalk ftands a fingle 
flower. 
This is large and yellow, though the colour 
Ge sEna. dN, 
varies greatly, for it is fometimes purplifh or 
blue. 
It is a native of North America, and flowers 
in April. 
Ray calls it Orobanche aut helleborine affinis ma~ 
vilandica caule nudo unico in fummitate flore. 
It isa very fingular and very beautiful fpecies. 
Urey XVI. 
TOOTHWORT. 
ANBLATUM. 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and approaches to’ the labiated fhape: the whole is forinetl 
into a tube, and two lips: the tube is fhort: the upper lip is long and undivided; the lower 
lip is fhorter, but is alfo ftrait and undivided: thefe ftand gaping open, and, are both compreffed : 
the feed-veffel is roundifh, and pointed: the cup 
ments at the edge. 
is {woln, flatted, and divided into four flight feg- 
‘ 
Linnzus places this among his didynamia angiofpermia, the threads in each flower being four, of 
which two are longer, two fhorter, and the fe 
away its familiar and ufual name anblatum, and c 
: This is his conduét in his Genera but in that 
eds contained in a capfule. This author has taken 
alls it /quamnaria. 
later work his Species Plantarum, he has joined it 
with fome others, under the common name Jathrea. 
Thefe genera approach very near to one another; but the difference is fufficient on which to efta- 
blifh their abfolute diftinétion. 
to Britain and all the north of Europe. 
Toothwort. 
Anblatum. 
The root is extreamly fingulat in form and 
fubftance: it is thick, white, flefhy, and of a 
fealy ftructure, fpreading a great way, and that 
in a very irregular manner, juft under the furface, 
_ One piece growing fideways from another, and a 
third from that, and fo on in every difection. 
The ftalks are numerous: they rife from va- 
rious parts of the root, but only one from each 
head: they are thick, flefhy, tender, white, or 
brownifh, and fix or feven inches high: the 
fkin is tender, and the interfial part full of a 
watery juice. 
There are properly no leaves, but a kind of 
membranes, ftanding irregularly on the ftalk, in 
the manner of thofe of broomrape. 
There is but one known fpecies of anblatum, and that is common 
: as 
‘The flowers ftand in a fhort feries at the top 
of the ftalk. 
They are large, and of a faint purple; or 
whitith, with a purple tinge. ; 
The feed-veflel is very large, and the feeds are 
numerous and minute. : 
It is found under hedges and about the roots 
of trees where the foil is loofe and crumbly, and 
where there is a covering of dead leaves. It is 
not very common, and it is often overlooked, 
Tt flowers in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Orobanche radice dentata 
major. Others, Dentaria major, dentaria mathioli, . 
and anblatum. Some, Apyllon. : 
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It is cooling and aftringent. The root, dried 
and powdered, is to be taken, a dram for E 
dofe, and will have great effe&, It is recom- 
mended againft ruptures, and internal bruifes, 
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If, 
Plants of which there is no fpecies native of Briratn, 
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CLANDESTINA, 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and 
tube and two lips: the tube is oblong, 
or fwoln figure: the upper lip is hollow, 
fmall, blunt fegments, and turns back : 
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approaches to the labiated kind: it is formed into 4 
and the lips ftand gaping open, and are of an inflated 
ei has a crooked point : the lower lip is divided into three 
the cup is hollow, and divided deeply into four fi : 
_and the feed-veffel is large, rounded, and terminated by a point. = EE? aagok 
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Linnzus 
