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5. Oval ferrated-leaved Panfy. 
Viola foliis ovatis ferratis ereffa. 
The root is long, flender, and full of fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, flender, up- 
fight, and very much branched, 
The leaves are broad, fhort, and of a figure 
approaching to oval: they are fharp-pointed, and 
fharply ferrated ; and they adhere by a broad bafe 
without any footftalk. . 
The flowers are large, and of a deep purple, 
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variegated with white and yellow: they have 
fhort and flender footftalks, and are very beau- 
tiful. 
“The feed-veffel is fmall, and the feeds are nu- 
merous, ; 
It is a native of Africa, and flowers in Aucufty 
Plukenet calls it Viola Jurvetia latiore folio 
Species peregrina. 
Thefe foreign violets poffefs the fame virtue 
with ours, but none of them is equal to the com 
mon kind. 
US II. 
IMPATIENT, 
TOMS RE ANT OTR Neos 
ipa flower is compofed of five petals of unequal fize, 
upper, two lower, and two intermediate: 
{nipp’d into three parts at the top: the lower pair are large, broad, unequal, and reflex 
make a kind of lower lip, as the fingle petal above does an 
placed oppofite to one another, and there is a fpur behind. 
This is the ftructure of this fingular flower. 
the upper petal is fhort, upright, and lightly 
3 and they 
upper one: the intermediate pair are 
The feed-veffel is of an oblong figure, and pointed: when the feeds are ripe it burfts with violence 
on the leaft motion even of the wind. 
The cup is compofed of two very fmall leaves : 
they are placed fide-ways of the flower, and fall 
with it; and they are not green, as in moft plants, but coloured, 
Linnzus places this among the /yugencfia polygamia monogamia, one of his artificial clafles; and he 
joins with it the Jal/amina. This is very wrong, becaufe the fhape of the feed-vellel is altogether 
diftin& ; and there are other obvious and effential differences. 
Ray has, -by fome overfight, alfo mifplaced this plant: he has put it among the fetrapetala, ot 
thofe with four-leaved flowers and fingle capfules, 
whereas the petals are very diftinaly five, 
Of this genus, thus ftri@ly charaéterifed, there is but one known fpecies, and that is a native 
of Britain. 
Yellow Impatient. 
& Inpatiens flove flave. 
The root is compofed of numerous large fibres, 
The ftalk is round, thick, upright, branched, 
and two feet high: it is of a pale green colour, 
of a firm, yet tender, fubftance, and looks in a 
manner clear, or tranfparent. 
The leaves are oblong, broad, and fharply 
ferrated: they ftand irregularly on the ftalks : 
they have fhort pedicles; and the parts of the 
ftalks where they grow, frequently fwell into a 
kind of thick knots. 
The flowers are large; numerous, and of a 
deep yellow : they have an open mouth, and a 
crooked fpur. - 
The feed-vefiels are oblong and browns and 
they contain many feeds: they will burit open on | 
but approaching to touch thems the motion in 
the air, caufed by the hand, being fufficient. 
Tt is found in our northern counties in damp 
places ; and flowers in Auguft. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Bal/omine lutea Sive noli me 
tangere. Others, Mercurialis fylueftris, and Nolf 
me tangere. ‘We have it as a curiofity in many 
gardens; where the gardeners call it Quick in hand, 
or Louch me not. : 
The leaves, bruifed and applied to the fkin, 
will raife an inflammation. 
Inwardly taken, it is a powerful but dangerous 
diuretick ; occafioning bloody urine, and terrible 
ftranguries, when given in an over-dofe, 
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DYERS-WEED. 
LU Tie OLA, 
THE flower confifts of five petals, unequal in bignefs, and irregularly difpofed: the upper one 
ftands fingle, and is {mall, and lightly divided into fix parts at the tip: the two fide-ones are 
placed oppofite to one another, and are divided each into three at the extremities; and the two 
lower are minute and undivided: they are fo fmall that they are often overlooked ; and the fower 
feems to confift only of three petals. 
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and irregularly difpofed: thefe are one 
