192 The BR Ih 1:8 Hi HERB Aye. 
The flowers are large, beautiful, and fnow 
white; they grow in a tuft at the top of the 
ftalk. 
The edevencl is fmall, and ends in two. 
points. 
It is full of fmall brown feeds. 
It isa native of the mountains in Germany, 
and flowers in July. 
Morifon calls it Sedum ferratum album briorne 
marginibus argenteis. 
2. Kidneywort, with white dotted flowers. 
Geum floribus albis punétatis foliis ferratis. 
The root is compofed of a few flender, but 
very long and tough fibres, rifing from a {mall 
head. 
The leaves {pread themfelves upon the ground 
in little tufts: they are oblong, broad, and very 
deeply ferrated: they are narrow at the bafe, 
broad toward the other end, and terminate in a 
fharp point. 
The {tall rifes in the centre, and is round, firm, 
uptight, and a little hairy, as are alfo the leaves. 
There are no leaves on the ftalk. 
The flowers are fmall,. but very beautiful ; 
they ftand in a little tuft at the top of the ftalk, 
and are of a fnow white, beautifully fpotted. 
Gag By oe 
The feed-veffel is oval, and has a double point. 
The feeds are very {fmall. 
It is a native of Switzerland, and flowers in 
April. 
Plukenet calls it Sanicula myofotis floribus albi- 
cantibus fere umbellatis. 
3. Kidneywort, with tufted flowers. 
Geum floribus fafciculatis. 
The root is compofed of a number of black 
fibres. 
The leaves rife ina tuft, and are oblong, broad, 
of a pale green, and ferrated at the edges, 
The ftalk is round, upright, and of a redifh 
colour, and is in a manner naked: there are no 
leaves on its lower part, and only a few rudiments 
of leaves where the branches rife that bear the 
flowers. 
Thefe are fmall, white, and cluftered in little 
tufts at the ends of the feveral branches that grow 
from the upper part of the ftalk. 
The feed-veffel is oval, and fplit at the end 
into two parts, and the feeds are fiall. 
It is a native of North America, and flowers 
in Auguft. © 
Plukenet calls it Sanicuja Virginiana alba folio” 
oblongo nugeronato. 
US IV. 
GRASS or PARNASSUS. : 
PARNASSITA. 
HE flower confifts of five petals, which are broad, and regularly fpread open: the feed-veftel 
is of an oval fhape, but marked with four flight ridges, and is compofed of four valves: the 
cup is formed of a fingle piece, divided into five long fegments, and remains when the flower is fallen, 
Linneus places this among the pentandria tetragynia ; the threads fuftaining the buttons in the 
flower being five, and the ftigmata rifing from the rudiment of the fruit four. : 
The ufual name of the genus was gramen Parnafi, and this Linnzus has very Judicioufly fet afide, 
reducing it, after C. Bauhine, to one word, Paruaffia,; the word gramen having no alliance with the 
nature of the plant. Of this genus there is but one known fpecies, and that is a native of Britain, 
as well as moft parts of Europe. 
Grafs of Parnaffus. 
Parnaffia. 
The root confifts of a fmall head, and an in- 
numerable quantity of long and flender fibres. 
The leaves are numerous, and extremely beau- 
tiful; each has its long, flender footftalk, and the 
fhape is heart-fathioned : they rife pretty upright » 
in a large tuft, and are of a deep green. 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, round, up- 
right, and a foot high. 
Each has only a fingle leaf upon it, and fuftains 
a fingle fower. 
The leaf grows about the middle of the ftalk, 
and furrounds it at the bafe : its fhape is the fame 
with that of thofe from the root, but it has no 
footttalk. ‘ 
The flower is very large and beautiful: it is 
white, and elegantly ftriated; and there are a 
multitude of filaments, no lefs than fixty-three in 
all, befide the proper threads, which are only 
five: thefe are a great addition to the beauty of 
the flower. : 
_are, indeed, extremely fingular, as well as beau- 
They rife from certain glandules in the lower 
part of the flower: there is one on each petal, 
and it is hollow, and heart-fafhioned 3 and from 
this there rife thirteen of thefe threads, taller as 
they proceed up the margin, and each havine 
its top terminated by a little globe. < 
Thefe glands Linnzus calls the neffaria, and 
makes the effential charaéter of the genus: they 
tiful. 
The feed-veffel is oval, and edged in four 
Places ; and the feeds are {mall and oval. : 
Tt is found on boggy ground in many parts of 
the kingdom, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Parnaffia fore albo Simplici. 
Others, Gramen Parnaffi vulgare, and Gramen 
Parnoffi minus. The flower is fometimes natu- 
rally double. ; 
The virtues of this plant have not been tried: 
but the farmers think it hurts their fheep. 
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