132 Thee BRITISH HERBAL 
Smooth Chelone: The flowers are Jarge and white: they ftand in 
his elabri {mall clufters at the top of the ftalk and branches, 
CES Sig and are of a'fingular afpect, fhort, thick, hollow, 
and clofe at the mouth. 
The feed-veffel is oval, and the feeds are large 
and three-cornered. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. ; 
The ftalks are numerous, round, firm, up- 
right, and confiderably branched. It is a native of North America, and flowers 
The leaves are long, narrow, and beautifully | in July. 
ferrated at the edges: they ftand very irregu- Tournefort calls it Chelone acadienfis fore albo, 
larly on the ftalks ; thofe toward the bottom al- | Ray, Digitalis| mariana perfice folio, the larger 
ternately ; and thofe toward the top in pairs. leaves refembling thofe of the peach tree. 
GE ING! UO se ae 
TRUMPET FLOWER. 
BIGNONIA. 
HIE flower is made of a fingle petal, and is of the labiated form: it confifts of a tube, a hol« 
low body, anda divided rim: the tube, properly fo called, is very fhort, and reaches no farther 
than the cup: the body is very long and hollow; and the rinv is divided into five parts, two of which 
are turned back ; thefe {tand upwards, and the other three hang downward, and fpread out: the 
cup is hollow, and divided into five fegments at the rim; and the feed-veffel is formed in the man- 
ner of a pod. : 
Linneus places this among the didynamia angiofpermia; the threads in each flower being four. 
two longer and two fhorter, and the feeds being contained in a capfule. , 
1, Ever-green Trumpetflower. 2, Finger-leaved Trumpetflower: 
Pinang. [mp vir ens. Bignonia fohiis digitatis. 
The root is long; thick, tough, and fpreading. 
The ftalks are numerous, very long, weak, 
and climbing, but of 2 woody fubftance. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and have very fhort 
footftalks : they are large, oblong, and confide- 
, rably broad, undivided at the edges, and fharp- 
pointed. 
The flowers ftand in the bofoms of the leaves, 
and have fhort footftalks; two ftand together, 
one in the bofom of each leaf of the pair, and 
fo all the way up the ftalk : they are large and 
yellow, and have a very fragrant fmell. 
The root is long, fpreading, and full of fibres, 
The ftem is woody, and the bark brown, with 
a tinge of red. 
The leaves are of a very beautiful colour and 
figure: five grow on every footftalk, and are 
difpofed in a digitated manner: three of the five 
ftand forwards, and have long footftalks ; two 
are fhorter and ftand back, and thefe have alfo 
very fhort footftalks: they are of a firm fub- 
ftance, and their colour is a bright green. 
The flowers are very large, and white. 
The feed-veffel is of a heart-fafhioned thape. The feed-veffel is long, in the manner of a 
The feeds are winged. pod, and when ripe it fplits at the end, 
It is a native of Virginia, and has been called | 1t is a native of Jamaica, and grows on the 
by many names. ‘ banks of waters, ‘and in damp places: it flowers 
Plukenet calls it Syringa velubilis Virginiana, | '° July. : 
myrti majoris folio, alato femine, floribus odoratis Sir Hans Sloane has deferibed it under the 
luteis. Catetby, Fafininum luteum odoratum Vir- | name of Nerio affinis filiquofa, folio palmato flore 
ginianum feandens fempervirens. Ray and others | aldo. 
allow it as a Bignonia. 
GreEaeNy Up S:2-VBR 
BEARS BREECH. 
4C AN T H U,S. 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and approaches in fhape to the labiated kind: the whole is 
: formed into two parts, a tube and a fingle lip. The tube is very fhort: there feems an upper 
lip wanting ; the lower, which is its only lip, is very long, ‘and divided into four obtufe {e Pha : 
the cup is of a fingular ftru€ture, as well as the flower: it confifts of fix leaves ; two ak 1 d 
fideways, oppolite, and erect, and thefe are fmall; two are again placed oppofite. dl ftand He 
and bottom; thefe are larger; and there are befide thefe, two other very minute BR whofe pofi ae 
is alfo fideways. The feed-veffel is oval. : ai ek ber 
Linnzus places this among the didynamia angiofpermia the threads in each Aower be 
longer and two fhorter, and the feeds contained in a capfule, 
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ing four, two 
1. Smooth 
