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He ERS. ALL, 
1. Broad leaved Arabis. 
Arabis latiore folio. 
The root is long, flender, and creeping. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, upright, 
hairy, and a foot high : they are of a pale colour, 
and not much branched. 
The leaves are numerous, and are placed ir- 
regularly ; they are of a fhape approaching to 
oval, broadeft at the bafe, where they furround 
the ftalk, and narrower to the extremity, where 
they terminate in a fharp point: they are foft to 
the touch, of a pale green, and ferrated at the 
edges. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 
in little tufts, and they are fmall and white. 
The feed-veffels are long and flender : the feeds 
are large and brown. 
It is a native of Germany, and other parts of 
Europe, and thrives beft on fhaded hills. It 
affumes various fhapes, according to the favour- 
able qualities of the foil and fhelter, fometimes 
lying for the moft parton the ground, and fome- 
times rifing perfectly ere€t. This, and its other 
variations from the fame caufe, have led fome to 
figure and defcribe it two or three times over un- 
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(tHE flower is compofed of four petals opening regularly crofs-ways ; the 
the cup is compofed of four little 
fpread open ; it is coloured, and falls entire with the 
obtufe, and have very narrow bottoms : 
end, compreffed, and two-edged, and is compofed 
oval figure, and lies in the centre of the pod. 
From the fhortnefs of the pod 
filiquofe kind. 
Linnzus places it among the tetradynamia filiquofa, 
and the feed-veffel, as we have 
than the other two, 
lar pod. 
' Common Woad. 
Lfatis vulgaris. 
The root is long, thick, whitifh, and fur- 
nifhed with many fibres, 
The firft leaves are large, oblong, and broad ; 
they lie fpread upon the ground, and they are of 
a bluifh green colour, and firm fubftance, 
The ftalk rifes in the midft of the tuft, and.is 
round, woody, firm, of a greyifh colour, and 
four feet high, 
The leaves ftand thick and irregularly on it, and 
are large and oblong : they are broad at the bafe, 
and narrower all the way to the point; and they 
are of the fame flefhy fubftance, and bluith green 
colour, 
The flowers ‘ftand upon numerous, flender 
branches, into which the ftalk divides at its top ; 
and they are fmall and yellow, 
der various names adapted to the condition of its 
growth. 
6. Long-leaved Arabis. 
Arabis longiore folio. 
The root is long, flender, white, and furnithed 
with numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a thick tuft, and are - 
fupported on fhort.footftalks : they are long, mo-. 
derately broad, fharp-pointed, narroweft at the 
bafe, and very irregularly indented about the 
edges. 
The ftalk is round, upright, frm, and not 
much branched. ee 
The leaves on it in all refpects refemble thofe 
from the root, but that they are fmaller; they 
ftand irregularly : they are of a pale green, and 
they have fhort footftalks, 
The flowers ftand at the top in a 
and are large, and of a bright yellow. 
The feed-veffels are long, flatted, and full of 
roundih feeds. 
It is a native of many parts of North America, 
and flowers in July. 
Plukenet calls it Eruca dellidis majoris folio. 
{mall tuft, 
U's Ss Ill, 
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tT. S: 
y are oblong, oval, 
oval leaves, which 
flower: the feed-veffel is oblong, blunt at the 
of two hollow fides: the feed is fingle, and of an 
in this genus fome might be for referring it to the filiculofe plants ; 
but that is not their effential charaéter, as we fhall thew hereafter. 
This is properly and. truly of the 
four of the fix threads in the flower being longer 
obferved, notwithftanding its fhortnefs, a regu- 
The feed-veffels are 
fingle and large. 
It is a native of the fhores of the Baltic ; but 
is cultivated in fields with us, and thrives very 
happily. It flowers in Augutt, 
C. Bauhine calls it Yatis latifolia fativa. This 
author, and others, defcribe alfo a narrower-leaved 
woad, which they call the wild kind, as if a dif- 
tinét {pecies; but there is no other difference 
between thefe two plants than what culture gives. 
The wild wad, brought into a cultivated land, 
will have as large and broad leaves as the other, 
and has arifen from {cattered feeds of the manured 
kind upon lefs favourable foils. 
The ufe of qwoad is for dying of woollen’ 
cloth. Its natural colour is blue; but it is alfo 
the bafis of feveral others : for this fervice a vatt 
quantity is annually raifed in many parts of 
England, ‘ I 
oblong, and the feed is 
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