220 Th BRITISH HERBAL. 
at the tops of the ftalks, and at the extremities 
of the divifions of the branches. 
The feed-veffel is large,» oblong, and thick; 
and the feeds are large and roundifh. - 
It isa native of the Eaft, and is there frequent 
in the corn-fields and other cultivated grounds. 
It flowers in September. 
C.Bauhine calls it Leontopetalo affinis foliis quernis. 
Gree war N 
Tournefort, Leontopetalon foliis cafte fimplici in- 
nafeentibus. Others, Chry/ogonum diofcoridis, and 
fimply Chryfogonum. 
The root of the firft kind is ufed to take 
{pots out of woollen ‘cloths; and it is faid to 
have fome efficacy in medicine as a diuretick, 
The other is not ufed. : 
U ais I. 
MEDEOLA. 
THE flower is compofed of fix petals, which turn back: the feed-veffel is large, roundifh, and 
divided into three cells, each of which is a fingle large feed: there is no cup. 
‘Linnaeus places this among the bexandria trigynia ; the threads in the flower being fix, and the 
ftyles from the rudiment of the fruit three. 
Greenifh-flowered Medeola. 
Medeola floribus virefcentibus. 
The root is large, thick, and has many fibres. 
The firft leaves are large, long, and undivided : 
they have no footftalks: they are broadeft in the 
middle, and pointed at the end, and undivided 
at the edges. 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, and not at 
all branched. 
The leaves on it are, like thofe from the root, . 
broadeft in the middle, oblong, fmall at the bafe, 
pointed at the end, and of a frefh green. 
They are difpofed in a ftellated manner on the 
ftalks, fix or more at a joint, except at the top, 
where there grow two or three irregularly. 
The flowers are {mall and greenifh: they grow 
fingly on flender footftalks at the top of the main 
ftalk, and their petals all turn back: as thefe are 
green and fmall, fome have called them a cup, 
and fay the plant has no flower; but this is 
erroneous, 
The feed-veffel is fmall, and the feeds are 
roundifh, but dented at one end. 
It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in J uly. 
Gronovius calls it Medeola foliis ftellatis lanceo- 
latis. 
Th ENDof tle TWELFTH CLASS. 
