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the bofoms of the leaves are collected for ufe in 
Germany. Hence came the miftake of calling the 
bulbs of the root feeds, thefe having been firft 
called by that name, and from their fituation 
much more naturally than thofe at the root. 
Tt is not peculiar to this plant to produce 
thefe particular parts: the toothwort, to be de. 
fcribed hereafter, and feveral others, do the 
fame. 
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KIDNEY WORT, 
GEU™M. . 
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"THE flower confifts of five petals, narrow at the bafe, and broadeft at the extremity: the feeds 
veffel is oval, and terminates in a divided ‘top : 
the cup is compofed of five little leaves, and 
remains with the feed veffel, though feparate and detached from it. . 
Linnzeus places this genus among the decandria digynia, joining it under one common name with 
faxifrage. 
differ in the ftructure of the cup. 
DIV 1IS;)L,0.N..1, 
_ 1, Hairy Kidneywort. 
Geum birfutum. 
The root is long, flender, and has a few fibres. 
The leaves rife in a fmall tuft, and ftand pretty 
upright: they have no footftalks; and they are 
oblong, moderately broad, fharp-pointed, dented 
at the edges, of a pale green colour, and hairy. 
The ftalk rifes in the midft of thefe, and it is 
fmall, naked, flender, and four inches high. 
' ‘The flowers ftand at the top, on long, flender 
footftalks, and fpread themfelves into a kind of 
umbel: they are fmall and white. 
The feed-veffel is fmall, and the feeds are nu- 
merous and brown. 
Tt is found on the Welch mountains, and in 
fome of the northern parts of England, and 
flowers in April. : 
Ray calls it Geum paluftre minus foliis oblongis 
crenatis. 
2. Narrow-leaved yellow Kidneywort. 
Geum angufifolium luteo flore. 
The root is a clufter of flender, but tough fibres: 
The leaves rife from it in a tuft; and they are 
oblong, narrow, and finooth : they are of a flefhy 
fubftance, and pale green cojour. 
The ftalk rifes in the center of thefe, and is 
round, flender, upright, and of a pale green, of- 
ten redifh. 
The flowers are very beautiful: they are com- 
pofed of five yellow petals, pointed, and beauti-. 
fully dotted with orange-colour, 
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1. Long-leaved Kidneywort. 
Geum longifolium. 
This is a moft elegant plant. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. 
The leaves are numerous, and very beautiful: 
they are long, narrow, and rounded at the ends: 
they are of a pale green, and they have a thin 
I have fhewn, in the charaéter of the preceding genus, how abfolutely and effentially they 
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The feed-veffel-is divided into two parts at the 
top, and the feeds are {mall and brown. | 
It is found on the hills in our northern coun- 
ties, and flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Geum anguftifolium-autumnale: flore 
luteo guttato. 
3. London Pride: 
Geum foliis fubrotundis crenatis. 
- The root is long, flender, and furnithed with 
a few, fibres. 
The leaves rife in a tuft, and are of a roundith 
figure, dented about the edges, and of a pale 
green. So : 
The ftalk rifes in the midft of a regular and 
beautiful tuft of thefé, and'is round, flender, ré2 
dith, naked, and‘a foot high. 
The flowers ftand in great numbers on branches 
fent out from the upper part of the ftalk, and 
they are fmall, but, when examined nearly, very 
beautiful: they are fpotced in a moft elegant 
manner with crimfon, 
The feed-veffel is fmall, and terminates in a 
double point, and the feeds are minute and nu- 
merous. 
_ It is wild on the mountains of Ireland ; whence 
it has been brought into our gardens. It flowers 
in July. 
Ray calls it Geum folio fubrotundo majori piftilla 
Hforis rubro. We, London Pride, or None fo 
pretty. ; 
FOR EIGN. S PE CTI Ess, 
filvery edge of a cartilaginous fubftance all round 
them, which is beautifully ferrated : they lie fptead 
in a circular manner on the ground, and the ftalk 
] rifes in the centre. 
This is round; firm, upright, and of a pale 
green. 
There are generally two or three Jeaves upon 
it of the fame fhape with thofe’ from the root, 
and they ftand irregularly, and at great diftances. 
3 They 
