The {BURT Sue? HRERABEAGID | aah 
6. Spear-pointed Birthwort. 
Ariftolochia foliis lanceolatis, 
The root confifts of a vaft number of long, 
flender filaments. 
The ftalk is upright, firm, and hard; of a 
pale green colour, and almoft woody fubftance. 
The leaves ftand alternately, and have fhort 
footftalks: they are long, narrow, and heart- 
fafhioned at the bafe, but they run out from 
thence into a flender, fharp point. 
' The flowers are long, hollow, and of 4 dufky 
colour: they have fhort footftalks, and they - 
ftand fingly in the bofoms of the leaves. 
The fruit is large and roundith ; and the feeds 
Have a pithy fubftance about them: 
It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in 
Augutt: 
Plukenet callé it Avoffolochia polyrrbixes auricu 
latis foliis Virginiana. 
Itis one of the kinds the rots of which are ufed 
among thofe of the right Virginian fnakeroot; 
but it is very rhuch inferior to the trué kind in 
virtue, 
Gy ee Neva ¢$ Hil. 
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GERARDIA., 
MPHE flower is made of a fingle petal, and is of the labiated form: it confifts of a tube and two- 
lips: the tube is oblong and rounded: the upper lip is broad, obtufe, and emarginated : the 
lower lip is divided into three fegments, and turned back: the cup is divided at the edge into five 
fegments ; and the feed-veffel is of an oval form, and opens at the bafe. ; % 
Linnzus places this among the didynamia angiofpermia: the threads in the flower being four, two 
longer and two fhorter, and the feeds enclofed in a capfule. 
Others have referred the feveral fpecies of this genus to the foxgloves, but they are abfolutely difting, 
Another plant of the umbelliferous kind, and altogether different from this, has been called berba 
gerardi: \et the ftudent take care the found of the name do not confound in his mind plants fo 
diftinct. - 
1. Narrow-leaved Gerardia. 
Gerardia foliis anguftis. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The ftalk is round, firm, ereét, rarely at all 
branched, and a foot high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and have no foot- 
ftalk: they are long, very narrow, and of a 
pale green ; pointed at the ends, and undivided 
at the edges. 
The flowers rife from the bofoms of the leaves, 
and are very large and beautiful: they ftand 
fingly, and have fhort footftalks: they are hol- 
low, deep, wide open at the mouth, and of a 
beautiful red colour, 
The feed-veffel is large and oval; and the 
feeds are fmall, numerous, and brown. 
It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in 
June. 
Plukenet calls it Digitalis Virginiana rubra 
foliis et facie autirrhini vulgaris. 
2. Jagged-leaved Gerardias 
Gerardia foltis laciniatis. 
The root is compofed of numerous thick 
fibres, 
The ftalk is round, firm, brownifh, ereét, and 
a foot and a half high. — : 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and have no 
footftalks: they are long, narrow, and: very 
deeply divided all along the edges, infomuch 
that fome toward the bottom of the plant are 
of a pinnated form.. 
The flowers are numerous, large, and beauti- 
ful: they are hollow, deep, and of a gold yel- 
low colour: they rife from the bofoms of the 
leaves fingly on long footftalks, and one or two 
of them generally terminate the ftalk. a 
The feed-veffel is oval and large: the feeds 
are numerous and fmall. 
It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in July. 
Gronovius calls it Avonymos floribus flavis {peci« 
ofis digitalis equalibus. 
GOR Oe NY UNS IV, 
CHELONE. 
HE. flower confifts of a fingle petal approaching to the labiated form: it is difpofed into 4 tube 
and two lips: the tube is fhort, and the opening of the mouth is inflated and oblong: the 
upper lip is obtufe and dentated at the top: the lower lip is very lightly divided into three fegments, 
and there is no opening: the cup is fmall, and divided at the end into five fegments: the feed- 
veffel is oval and oblong. 
Linnzus places this among the didynamia angiofpermia; the threads being in éach flower four, two 
longer and two fhorter, and the feeds contained in a capfule. There is ia all the fpecies 4 rudiment 
of a fifth thread. 
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