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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
3s Broad-leaved Sweetwilliam. 
Caryophyllus barbatus latifolius. 
The root is long, thick, white, and divided. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, jointed, 
ufuaily crooked from joint to joint ; and of a pale 
green colour. ise 
The leaves {tand two at each joint; and they 
are oblong, broad, and of a frefh green: they 
fometimes {tand obliquely upwards, but for the 
moft part bend down. 
The flowers are moderately large, and natu- 
rally are white ‘or redifh but culture gives them 
many variations in this: refpect: they ftand in 
large tufts at the tops of the ftalks: the {cales at 
the bottom of the cup are as long as its hollow 
body; and the feed-veffels are oblong, and con- 
tain numerous dufky feeds. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in Augutt- 
C. Bauhine calls it Caryophyllus barbatus fyl- 
veftris latifolius. 
4. Narrow-leaved Sweetwilliam. 
Caryophyllus barbatus anguftifolius. 
The root is long, white, flender, and divided. 
G EON 
The ftalks are numerous, round, flender, up- 
right, and a foot high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and they are long 
and narrow, and of a pale green. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and 
are numerous, and moderately large. 
The feed-veffel is longifh, and the feeds are 
numerous, rough, and black. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in Auguft. 
C, Bauhine calls it Caryophyllus bortenfis latifo- 
lius barbatus, But its leaves are much narrower 
than thofe of the others. 
All thefe fpecies of caryophyllus have the fame 
medicinal qualities, and their virtue is principally 
in the flowers. Thofe of the purple kind, or 
what is called the clove Fulyflower, poffefs them in 
the greateft degree. They are cordial and cepha- 
lick. They are good in faintings, head-achs, 
and other nervous diforders. We keep a fyrup 
of them in the fhops, which is not without vir- 
tue, but is loaded with fugar, as is neceffary for 
keeping in that form. The beft method of giv- 
ing them is in a ftrong tincture in brandy. 
U Ss I. 
CAMPION. 
Lei G SH Ne 1S. 
HE flower is compofed of five petals, with long bafes, and ufually divided into two or four 
| fegments at the rim: the cup is roundifh, fwelled, and divided at the edge into five fegments; 
and the feed-veflel is fingle, of an oval figure covered, formed of five valves, and has only 
one cell. 
Linnaeus places this among the decandria pentagynia; the filaments in the flower being ten, and the 
ftyles rifing from the rudiment of the fruit five, 
DIVISION F 
x. Common Sea Campion. 
Lychnis maritima vulgaris. 
This root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft fhoots are numerous, and cluftered 
with leaves: they are fhort, and of a greyifh 
green, and hoary. 
The ftalks are round, fmooth, of a greyifh 
green, numerous, a foot and half long, but weak, 
and not well able to keep themfelyes upright ; 
often they all lie fpread upon the ground; fome- 
times they all ftand erect. 
The leaves are. oblong, broad at the bafe, 
fharp at the point, and of a pale green. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches; and are large and white: their cup is 
fwelled, and dented at the edge pretty deeply. 
The feed-veffel is large and oval; and the 
feeds are numerous and roundith. 
It is common about our fea-coafts; and flowers 
in July. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Lychnis maritima repens. 
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BeRol T 1 Su S Poe Cay Es; 
2. Common white Corn Campion. 
Lychnis vulgaris alba qua Beheu album vulgo, 
The root is long, white; and thick; and is 
furnifhed with many thick fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, upright, 
confiderably branched, and two feet hich, 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and are iF and 
_of a pale green: they are broad at the bafe, not 
at all indented at the edges, and tharp-pointed. 
_ The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches, 
into which the ftalk divides, and of thofe fhoots 
which rife from the bofoms of the upper leaves : 
they are large and white. 
The feed-veffel is oval, and the feeds are 
large. ; 
: It is common in our corn fields, and flowers 
in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lychnis ylveftris qua ben 
album vulgo. Others, Beben album, and papaver 
JSpumeum. In Englifh it is alfo called, from. 
that Latin name, Spatling poppy, as alfo White 
bottle, and White ben. 
A fmall infeé is frequently found upon the 
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