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HARMALA. 
HE flower is compofed of five petals, regularly expanded : the feed-veftel is roundifh, but 
flightly trigonal, and the feeds are numerous and oval: the cup-is compofed of five little leaves, 
and remains after the flower is fallen. 
Linnzeus places it among the polyandria monogynia 5 the threads in the centre of the flower be- 
ing numerous, and fixed to the receptacle, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. This 
author, inftead of its moft received name harmala, calls this genus peganum. 
1. Common Wild Rue. 
Harmala vulgaris. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The fir(t leaves are large, broad, and divided 
into numerous, fine, narrow fegments : they are 
of a pale green colour, and of a ftrong fimell. 
The ftalks rife in the midft, and are firm, up- 
right, very little branched, and a foot and a half 
high. 
The leaves on thefe ftand irregularly, and re- 
femble thofe from the root in fhape. ' 
The flowers are large and white: they ftand 
fingly on long foot{talks, rifing from the bofoms 
of the leaves. 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous and fmall. : 
Ic is anative of the Eaft, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ruta fylveftris flore albo 
magno. Others, Ruta fylveftris tenuifolia, and 
Harmala. 
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2. Wild Rue, with undivided leaves, 
Harmala foliis integris. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are oblong, narrow, of a pale 
green, pointed at the ends, and not at all fer- 
rated. 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, upright, and 
of a gale green. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and are 
oblong, narrow, and fharp-pointed: they re- 
femble thofe of the common milkwort. 
The flowers ftand on flender footftalks rifing 
from the bofoms of the leaves, and they are white 
or yellowith. 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are very 
numerous. 
It is anative of Siberia, and flowers in Augutt. 
Amman calls it Harmala montana polygale 
foliis. 
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LED D 105M. 
THE flower is compofed of five petals regularly difpofed : the feed-veffel is ofa roundith figure; 
it contains five cells, and fplits in five places at the bafe when ripe: the cup is fmall, and is 
formed of a fingle leaf, divided into five fegments at the edge. 2 
Linnazus places this among the decandria mongynia ; the threads in each flower being ten, and the 
ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. 
1. Narrow-leaved Marth Ciftus. 
Ledum foliis anguftis ferrugineis. 
The root is long, thick, divided, and fpread- 
ing. ‘ 
The ftem is hard, woody, and covered with a 
grey bark. 
The young fhoots are long, flender, purplith, 
and covered with a white hoary matter : they are 
thick fet with leaves, and thefe are long and 
narrow, refembling thofe of rofemary : their fides 
are ufually curled up together, and they are co- 
vered with a ferrugineous duft. 
_ The flowers ftand at the top of the branches 
in little tufts, and they are large and white. 
The feed-veffel is fmall, and the feeds are nv} 
merous and brown. 
It is frequent in bogey grounds in many parts 
of North eat ore oe 
C. Bauhine calls it Citus ledon rorifmarini foliis 
Serrugineis, Comerarius and others, Rofmarinum 
Sylueftre. 
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