218 The BoRGr alyl Syie seks le BALES 
DIV US LO Ne -L 
1. Common-fpiked Willowherb. 
Salicaria foliis oppofitis. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, firm, large, upright, 
and five feet high : they are not much branched ; 
they are of an angulated figure, and of a brown 
colour toward the bottom, and green near the 
top. i 
The leaves ftand in pairs: they are large, and 
have no footftalk: they are broadeft at the bafe, 
and narrower all the way to the end; not at all 
notched at the edges, and of a frefh green. 
The flowers are large, and of a beautiful purple: 
they grow in long, thick fpikes at the tops of the 
ftalks, and of many fhoots that rife from the bo- 
foms of the upper leaves. 
- The feed-vefft] is large, and the feeds are very 
numerous and fall. 
It is common by waters, and makes a very 
elegant figure in autumn when in flower. Many 
of the American plants we nurfe up for their 
beauty, are not equal to this weed, nor fo worthy 
a place in gardens. | 
C. Bauhine calls it Lafimachia fpicata purpurea 
forte Plinit. Clufius, Ly/imachia purpurea com- 
munis major. Others fimply, Lyfimachia pur- 
pured. 
The root of this plant is a good aftringent : it 
Dot ViLS. TON. 1. 
Narrow-leaved fpiked Willowherb. 
Salicaria foliis anguftioribus flore rubente. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
large fibres. 
The ftaik is fquare, firm, upright, and a foot 
high. 
The leaves are narrow, oblong, and pointed : 
they have no footftalks, and they are not at all 
ferrated on the edges. 
They are very irregularly and uncertainly 
placed on the ftalk : thofe toward the bottom are 
in pairs, or fometimes three grow at a joint; 
thofe on the upper part ftand alternately. 
BRT tT LS HS Pee lobes: 
does not aét with violence; but, being continued 
in fmall dofes, feldom fails to anfwer its effect 
in ftopping purgings or hemorrhages. 
The juice is faid to be good againft inflamma- 
tions of the eyes; and fome have recommended 
the diftilled water for the fame purpofe. 
2. Small fpiked Willowherb. 
Salicaria foliis alternis. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
large fibres. 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, branched, 
and a foot high. 
The leaves are placed irregularly, and have no 
footftalks: they are oblong, narrow, fharp-pointed, 
and of a deep green. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a bluith purple: 
they do not fland in long, thick fpikes at the tops 
of the ftalks, but are placed in the bofoms of the 
upper leaves. 
The feed-veffel is fmall, and the feeds are nu- 
meyous and minute. 
It is found in many parts of England, where 
there have ftood waters in winter. It flowers 
in June. 
Ray calls it Sakicaria hyffopifolia, C. Bauhine, 
Ebffopifolia. Our people, Small bhedge-hyffop : 
but this is a very improper name, as it con- 
founds it with a genus to which it it not at all 
allied. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
The flowers are large, and of a bright beauti- 
ful red : they do not form a long, com- 
pact fpike, as thofe of the common kind, but 
ftand in the bofoms of the upper leaves in the 
manner of thofe of the laft defcribed fpecies. 
The feed-vefféls are large and pointed, the 
feeds minute and brown. 
It is frequent on the fhores of the Danube, and 
elfewhere in Europe in the like damp places. It 
flowers in July. 
Clufius calls it Lyfimachia purpurea minor, 
C.Bathine, Ly/imachia rubra non Siliquofa. Others, 
the leffer-Jpiked willowkerb, Lyfimachia Jpicata mi- 
nor. : 
C Phe Nees II. 
WATER PURSLAIN. 
POR Is OU sal sez, 
HE flower is compofed of fix very fmall petals, regularly difpofed i 
pofed, and inferted 
of the cup: the feed-veffel is heart-fafhioned, divided into two partition, and full of Bh i 
feeds: the cup is large, bell-fafhioned, and divided at the extremit 
alternately larger and {maller. 
y into twelve fegments, which are 
Linnzeus places this among the bexandria monoynia ; the threads in 
3 th i 
fix, and the flyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. * apol a ae oe 
He takes away its name portula, and calls it peplis. é 
OF this genus there is but one known fpecies, and that is a native of Britain: 
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