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Th BRITISH HERBAL. 
Allfeed. 
Radiola. 
The root is fmall, and furnifhed with many 
fibres. 
The ftalk is round, and divided into a vaft 
multitude of branches. The whole pla:t is not 
more than an inch high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and they are of a 
dufky green, fhort, and broad. 
The flowers are very fmall, and white; and 
they ftand in clufters at the tops of the branches, 
The feed-veffels are large and brown ; and the 
feeds minute. ‘ 
Jt is not uncommon on heaths, and flowers in 
uly. 
; Ray calls it Radiola vulgaris Jerpyliifolia. Qu. 
thers, Hernaria minima. 
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ForEIGN GENERA. 
Thofe of which there is no fpecies native of this country. 
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BARRENWORT. 
EPEMEDIU™M. 
HE flower is formed of four petals, regularly difpofed: the feed-veffel is long, flender, 
pointed at the end, and made of two valves, containing numerous feeds in a fingle cell: 
the cup is compofed of four leaves, and falls with the flower. 
Linnzeus places this among the tetrandria monog ynia ; the threads in the centre of the flower being 
four, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle, 
Of this genus there is but one known fpecies. 
Barrenwort. 
Epimedium. 
The root is flender and creeping, and is hung 
about with numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves ftand on long, flender, and 
divided footftalks, and there are ufually three on 
each divifion. 
They are heart-fafhioned, deeply cut in at the 
bafe, and thence fmaller to the extremity ; and 
are very fharply ferrated round the edges. 
The ftalk rifes among thefe, and is round, 
firm, upright, not at all branched, and a foot — 
high. 
There ufually ftands one’ of thefe compound 
leaves upon it, confifting of five fingle ones, 
each on its own feparate footftalk ; and thefe are, 
G E N 
~~ PODDED 
like thofe from the root, heart-fathioned, ferrated, 
and pointed. : : 
The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalk in a 
kind of fpike, and each has its feparate, flender 
footftalk: they are of a deep purple, with an 
edge of yellow. 
The feed-veffel is long and flender, and the 
feeds are oblong and fmall. 
It is a native of many of the northern parts of 
Europe, and lives in the damp parts of foretts, 
It flowers in Auguft. : 
All authors call it Epimedium; the plant being 
fo fingular that it needs no diftin@ive epithets. 
It has been faid to be a native of this king- 
dom, but not truly. 
Its virtues are not certainly known. 
U § II. 
CUMMIN. 
HYPECOUM. 
A a flower is compofed of. four petals of unequal fize: 
each into three parts’; and thefe ftand more outwards: 
fmall, and divided flightly into three parts at the top; the 
prefied and erect: the feed-veffel is long, 
leaves, and falls with the fower. 
Linnzus places this among the tetrandria digynia 
four, and the ftyles from the rudiment of the fruit two. 
two of thefe are larger, and divided 
the other two ftand inwards, and aré 
middle fegment being hollowed, com- 
crooked, and jointed: the cup is compofed of two little 
3 the threads in the centre of the flowet being 
x. Common 
