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BRAT 1S Hi A EOR*B ASE, 
1. Common great Celandine. 
Chelidonium majus vulgare. 
The root is long, thick, and full of a yellow 
juice; it is frequently divided, and ufually has 
many large fibres. 
‘The firft leaves arife in a numerous tuft: they 
are large, and beautifully pinnated: each is com- 
pofed of three or four pairs of fmaller leaves, 
placed on a rib, with an odd one at the end. 
The ftalk is round, weak, branched, and two 
feet high. ‘ 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the root, 
and are of a pale green. 
The flowers are fimall, and of a gold yellow: 
they grow feveral together on the tops of the 
ftalks ; each having its own feparate tender foot- 
ftalk. ) 
The feed-veffels are long flender pods, con- 
taining numerous feeds. 
The whole plant is full of a deep yellow juice. 
‘It is common in wafte places, and flowers in 
‘Juae. 
C. Bauhine calls it Chelidonium majus vulgare ; 
and the fame name is given it by moft others. 
What is called Jmall celandine is a very diffe- 
rent plant, defcribed in the firft clafs of this 
work under its more proper name pilewort. 
2. Jagged Celandine. 
Chelidonium foliis laciniatis. 
The root is long and thick, brown on the fur- 
face and yellow within, and full of a yellow 
juice. 
The firft leaves are very large: they have long 
footftalks, and fpread into a broad, as well as 
high tuft: each is compofed of about two pairs 
of fmaller, placed on their feparate footftalks, on 
_a rib which has an odd one at the end. 
The ftalk is round, weak, hairy, and of a 
pale green: it is but moderately erect, and little 
branched. : 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and re- 
femble thofe from the root; but there are ufually 
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THE flower is compofed of four broad petals, with a tuft of threads in the centre : 
formed of four oblong, coloured leaves, and falls with the flower : 
and flender, rounded and divided within into tour cells; and the feeds a: 
matter. 
Linnzus placed this among the ofandria mon 
the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. 
The name by which this genus is commonly diftinguifhed in Latin is 
as the loofeftrife and falicaria, 
» confufion. ‘That name was originally given to the yellow willowh 
and defcribed in a preceding clafs: I have ther 
i given by Linneus, 
modern writers, for the fame diftiné: affortment of plants, 
been given to feveral other genera, 
diftine from this, 
and for this adopted the name epilobium, 
a pair of {mall leaves, at the bafe of each larger, 
which feerns compleat without them: the pinnz, 
or {mall leaves, compofing the larger in this fpe- 
cies, are very deeply and fharply divided, and 
hairy. 
The flowers are fmall and yellow: the feed- 
veffels are long and thick ; and the feeds are nu- 
merous. 
It is common in feveral parts of England on 
banks, and flowers in Augutt. / 
C. Bauhine calls it Chelidonium majus foliis 
‘quernis. J. Bauhine, more properly, Chelidonium 
majus folio laciniato, for the leaves of the com- 
mon kind more refemble thofe of the oak than 
thefe. : 
It has been confidered by many, and by Mr. 
Ray among the reft, as no more than a variety 
of the laft fpecies ; but it is effentially different : 
not only the leaves vary, but the flowers are 
fmaller, and the pods are larger. 
This and the other both poffefs the fame vir- 
tues, but the other, or common great celandine, in 
the greater degree. 
It is an excellent medicine againft obftruc- 
tions of the vifcera. It operates both by ftool 
and urine; and is good in the jaundice, and 
obftructions of the fpleen: the root beat up 
with fugar into a conferve is the beft way of 
giving it for this purpofe. 
Tt is alfo a cordial and fudorifick: for this 
ufe an infufion is beft. The root. fhould be 
cut into flices, and boiling water poured on it; 
and this fhould be drank warm in bed: it pro. 
motes perfpiration, and throws out any thing to 
the fkin: 
The juice is famous in obftru@tions of the 
liver. 
The juice, ufed both outwardly and inwardly, 
is alfo ftrongly recommended in diforders of the 
eyes. 
The root, dried and powdered, is a balfamicl 
and fubaftringent : it is given againft bloody 
fluxes, and in other hemorrhages: half a dram 
for a dofe. 
Uses IV. ) 
WHERB. 
OBIUM. 
the cup is 
the feed-veffel is very long 
re hung with a fine downy 
ogynia ; the threads in each flower being eight, and 
hfimackia, but that having 
cannot be retained for this without 
erb or loofeftrife, a genus altogether 
efore appropriated it to that genus ; 
and in ufe among moft of the 
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