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The BRIT § Ho HER BA-E. 
3. Bafe Rocket, called little Spanifh Catchfly. 
Refeda alba minima foliis integris. 
The root is long, flender, white and divided. 
The leaves that grow from it are numerous, 
oblong, narrow, and tharp-pointed. 
The ftalks rife in the centre of this clufter ; 
and they are flender, upright, five or fix inches 
high, and fcarce at all branched. 
Their leaves are fmall, and like thofe from the 
root: they are placed irregularly, and are of a 
pale green. 
The flowers are very fmall, and white: they 
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ftand at the tops of the ftalks in long, flender 
fpikes. 
The feed-veffel is fmall,; and the feeds are very 
minute. 
It is common on hilly, barren places in the 
warmer parts of Europe; and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Refeda alba minor. Clufius, 
Sefamoides falamanticum parvum fecundum, Our 
common Englifh writers, Little Spanifh catchfy, 
Thefe feveral fpecies are faid to be good in 
fomentations, and other compofitions for exter- 
nal ufe; but their virtues are not fupported upon 
experience. 
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Plants with a five-leaved flower, and fingle capfule for the feeds, of which there is 
no fpecies .native of Britain. 
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CUGUBALU,S, 
HE flower is compofed of five petals, which are divided at the ends: the feed-vefiel is of a 
roundifh figure, pointed at the top, and has the appearance of a berry: the cup is round, 
fwoln, and nipp’d at the edge; and it remains when the flower is fallen. 
Linnzus places this among the decandria trigynia; the threads in each flower being ten, and the 
flyles from the rudiment of the capfule three. 
This author joins in the fame genus, and under the fame name, many proper fpecies of Jychnis: 
thefe have been defcribed in their place. 
The occafion is, that he has not obferved the effential and diftin@tive charaéter of the genus, 
which is, that the capfule has the appearance of a berry. This the right cucubalus has, but not any 
ore of all thofe of the ychuis kind: thus properly determined, there is but one known fpecies of this 
genus: this has been at all times called by authors by that name; and the name has not been given, 
till by this writer, to any other. 
Berry-bearing Chickweed. 
Cucubalus. 
The root is compofed of feveral thick, crooked 
fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and flender: 
they fupport themfelves among bufhes, and will 
that way grow to a very confiderable height. 
The leaves are large : they ftand in pairs 
without footftalks, and are oblong, broadeft in 
the middle, pointed at the end, not at all in- 
dented; of a tender fubftance, and of a pale 
green colour. ; 
The flowers grow at the tops of the ftalks, and 
of branches rifing from the bofoms of the upper 
leaves: they are {mall, and of a greenith white, 
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they ftand in great fwoln cups, fomewhat re- 
fembling thofe of the winter cherry, and only 
the top of the flower is feen out of them. 
The feed-veffel is round, but pointed at the 
end: it is of the bignefs of a large pea, and,. 
when ripe, of a black colour ; fo that it has 
greatly the appearance of a berry. - 
The feeds are numerous, fmall, and black. 
It is common in woods and thickets in all the 
northern parts of Europe; and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Afine Scandens baccifera: 
Dodonzus Alfine repens. The common writers, 
Berry-bearing chickweed ; a very improper name, 
but which we retain here, becaufe vulgarly known, 
It is better to call it Cucubalus, 
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Mol TB Leaks A; 
THE flower is compofed of five petals, reg 
ularly expanded, with narrow bafes, which inferted 
into the cup: the feed-veftel is globular, but pointed at the end: 3 ea ueae a al 
fingle piece, and is hollow, and divided into five fe 
Linneus places this among the decandria digynia 
the cup is compofed of a 
gments at the edge. : : 
3 the threads in the centre of the flower being 
ten, and the ftyles from the rudiment of the capfule two, 
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