Thes-Be Ral +?-L SH 4. A BAR BoA, bas 
4, Common Podded Cummin. © 
Hypecoum vulgare. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The leaves that rife from it are large, and 
beautifully divided into fegments : they are of 
the. pinnated form, but each of the pinnae of 
which they are compofed, is again divided into 
fmaller parts; and they are deeply notched at the 
edges: the whole leaf is of a pale bluifh or yel- 
lowifh green; and its pedicle is often redifh.-to- 
ward the ground. : 
The ftalk is round, ridged, upright and of a 
often it is flatted. Toward the lower 
d@ ufually naked: higher up 
ward the top it 
pale colour : 
part it is fimple, an 
it has feveral leaves; and to 
divides into branches. 
The leaves on the ftalk are like thofe from the 
root, only fmaller. 
The flowers are mo' 
bright yellow: they ftan 
the extremities of the branches. 
The feed-veffel is long, crooked, and jointed ; 
and in each joint there is contained a fingle ob- 
long feed. : s 
I is common in the fouthern parts of Europe, 
and flowers in July. ‘ 
C. Bauhine calls it fimply Hypecoum ; and moft 
authors follow him. Others call it Hypecoum 
— filiquis articulatis. 
derately large, and of a 
d on flender footftalks at 
2. Podded Cummin with fmooth pods. 
Eypecoum filiquis teretibus levibus, 
The root is long, flend i i 
enna oh gy fender, and furnifhed with 
The firft leaves are lone 
: g, narrow, and pinnated: 
each is compofed of four, five, te a oes 
pinnz: on a long middle rib, with an odd one at 
the end; and they are all very deeply indented 
aes ete lower ones down to the rib: the 
colour of the whole leaf i een 
ce is a frefh and beauti- 
The ftalks are flender, ro ri 
ten inches high, pe ATP oeuTER Toe 
The leaves on them refemble thofe from the 
root, but that they are fmaller and of a paler 
colour, and are more deeply indented. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks. 
and they are {mall and yellow. ‘ 
The feed-vefiel is a long pod, not jointed 
as in ne common hypecoum, but {mooth: it # 
requently a little Kk ; 
pea y crooked, and always hangs 
Thefeeds are numerous, oblong, and yellowifh. 
It is frequent in many parts of Europe and 
flowers in July. ‘ 
Dalefchamp calls it Cuminum fylvefre fliquatum; - 
and others have foilowed him. 
Gots MNP Ue Merekoagitg 
‘ 
LUDWIGIA. 
Gh lees flower is formed of four petals regularly difpofed: the feed-veffel is compofed of four 
valves: the cup is divided into four long and narrow fegments, which appear between th¢ 
petals of the flow 
Linnzus places t! 
er, and remain when it is fallen. 
his among the tetrandria monogynia ; the threads in the centre of the flower being, 
four, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. 
Alternate-leaved Ludwigia. 
Ludwigia foliis anguftis alternis. 
The root is compofed of numerous long fibres 
rifing from a finall head. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, ftriated, and 
of a yellowith colour. 
~ ‘The leaves are placed alternately upon it; and 
they are long, narrow, and fharp-pointed ; and 
have no footftalks. ae 
The flowers grow toward the tops of the ftalks, 
and of the branches rifing from the bofoms’ of 
the upper leaves: they are placed fingly in the 
bofoms of the leaves on thefe part 
and are large and yellow. Lane 
The feed-veffel is fquare and large: it is open 
at the top, and it contains numerous {mall 
feeds. 
It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in July, 
Plukenet, calls it Ly/imachia non papofa eng 
Luteo majori filiqua caryophylloide Virginiana. Gr 9 
novius calls it fimply, Ludwigia. Van Reyen, 
Ludwigia capfulis fubrotundis. ‘ 
Its virtues are unknown. 
mot pe! tye tg IV. 
OLDENLANDITIA. 
ee | SEIE, flower confifts of four pe 
and coriaceous, and contains numerous 
narrow fegments, 
ftyle from the rpdiment of the fruit fingle. 
N° 23. 
tals regularly difpofed, and {pread open: the feed-veffél is round 
fmall feeds in two cells: the cup is divided into four 
and remains when the flower is fallen. 
Linnaeus places this among the tetrandria monogynia 5 
the threads in the flower being four, and the 
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