134. The 
BRITISH HERBAL. 
Befide the variations we have named in the 
Corinthian capital, where the antients cut the 
ends and tops of the acamidus into laurel and 
olive leaves, we are to mention that in the re- 
mains of what is called the compofite orders 
thefe ends are cut and fplit with the chiffel much 
farther than in nature. In this ftate they are cal- 
led parfley leaves; and we fee an inftance of them 
in the compofite columns of the arch of Severus, 
and elfewhere: but they are here more pardonable, 
though no where to be commended. ‘The Ro- 
mans had a right to indulge their fancy in this 
compofition (for it does not deferve the name of 
an order), becaufe it was of their own invention ; 
but they are inexcufable in maiming the Corin- 
thian, a proper and diftinét order, and the inven- 
tions of their mafters the Greeks, the fathers of 
{cience. 
3+ Holly-leaved Acanthus. 
Acanthus foliis aquifolii. 
The root is long and fpreading. 
The ftalks are numerous, large, woody, and 
oe aes 
armed with many fhort, but very fharp and fturdy 
prickles: they are tough, and covered with a 
pale greyith rind. k 
The leaves are large, oblong, confiderably 
broad, and of a bluifh green colour: they are 
deeply and very irregularly divided into three or 
four fegments on each fide, and thefe all end in 
prickles: they terminate alfo in a fhort; irregular, 
prickly point at the extremity. 
The flowers grow at the tops of thie branches, 
and are very large and gaping. 
The feed-vefféls are large and double; and the 
feéds are fmall. 
Itis a native of the Eaft Indies. 
Cominelin calls it Carduns aquaticus fplveftris 
inodorus. Pitiver, Acanthus Malabaricus agrifolio 
folio. 
The root is efteemed good in the gravel. The 
roots of the common acanthus have the fame vir- 
tues, operating by urine, but not in a degree 
worth: notice, 
U a8 VII. 
BUA R (Ghar alas: 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and approaches to the labiated kind: 
tube, a body, and two lips: the tube is fhort, and is contained in the cup: 
it is formed into a 
the body is oblong 
and {welled : the upper lip is nip’d at the end, and ftands ere&t: the under one is divided into three 
fegments ; the middle one of which is juft of the figure of the entire upper lip; 
into five flender fegments ; and the feed-veffel is oblong and fquare. 
the cup is divided 
Linnaeus places this among the didynamia angiofpermia, 
1. Four-prickled Barleria, 
Barleria fpinis quaternis. 
The root is large, divided into many parts, 
and full of fpreading fibres. 
The ftem is hard, woody and covered with a 
brown bark. : 
There are numerous and very fharp prickles 
on the branches, and they are difpofed very re- 
gularly, four together, in form of a crofs. 
The leaves are large and oblong: they ftand 
in pairs, and have very fhort footftalks : they are 
Garr 
NUS 
of a bright green, undivided at the edges, and 
fharp-pointed. 
The flowers rife from the bofoms of the leaves, 
and are large and beautiful : each has its feparate 
fhort footftalk, and there generally grows a tuft 
of young leaves about them. 
The feed-veffel is large, and fpread on the fur- 
aes and the feeds are numerous, rounded, and 
at. 
It is a native of the Eaft Indies, 
in July. 
- Plukenet calls it Melampyro cognata maderos 
patana fpinis horrida. The Indians, Coletsa veetla, 
VIII. 
OIlLY-iG R A IN, 
SESAMU™M. 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal 
whole is formed into a finall tube, 
and contained within the cup: 
into five parts, 
from the reft : 
oblong, 
Linnzus places this,. as the others, 
2 
> and fomewhat approache: i ind: 
areata aay PProaches to the labiated kind: the 
the body is large and broad, deep and hollow ; 
four of which are broad and equal, ‘ 
the cup is divided into five fmall fegments at the edge: 
and fquare, and contains numerous feeds. 
! among the didynamia angio [perinia 
being four, two of which are longer and two thorter, f 
and a divided edge: the tube is fhort, 
the edge is divided 
and altogether different 
the feed-veffel is large, 
and the fifth narrow, 
3 the threads in each flower 
and the feeds contained in a capfule. 
1. Long- 
and flowers 
