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LUNARIAZA, 
p-FAHE flower is compofed of four petals difplayed crofs-ways ; they arelarge, obtufe, undivided, 
ae and have flender bottoms of the Jength of the cup. The cup is formed of four leaves, of an 
oval or oblong figure, and convergent at their tops; there are two of them thick at the bafe: the 
feed-veffel is of an elliptic or long-round figure, flatted, erect, and very large : it is terminated by a 
long point, and is formed of two. valves, and divided into two cells or partitions by a membrane, 
which runs parallel with the fides. 
Linnezus places this among the tetradynamia filiculofa, the 
threads of the flower being fix, four of 
which are longer than the other two, and the feed-veffel a proper filicula or thale. s oe 
Others have arranged it among the filiquofe plants, or thofe whofe feed-veffel isa regular pod; « 
but erroneoufly. The diftinétions in thefe cafes are fmall, but they are fufficient : the filiquofe and 
filiculofe plants of feveral genera approach very nearly to one another, but a ftrict examination of the 
feed-veffel will always fhew without error to which clafs any plant truly belongs. 
DIVISION I BRITISH *S'PECT E's: 
Lunar Violet, with a wreathen pod: 
Lunaria filiqua intorta, 
The root is compofed of a few threads. 
The firft leaves are oblong, fomewhat broad, 
and of a greyifh green: they are fmall, and'they 
grow in a thick tuft, partly rifing up, and partly 
fpread uponithe ground. 
The ftalk rifes inthe midft of this tuft’; and 
is round, upright, flender, of a greyifh colour, 
and eight inches high. i t 
. The leaves on it are placed irregularly ; and 
they are oblong, broad, and of a bluifh green. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and 
are fmall and. white. 
DEV LST O-Ng U4 b-O 
1. Honefty. 
Lunaria filiculis fubrotundis. 
The root is a tuft of thick fibres. 
The firft leaves are few, and quickly fade ; 
they are of a heart-fafhioned fhape, and of an 
obfcure, dufky, green colour. : 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, branched, 
and thrée feet high. ; age 
The leaves-on this are placed at diftances; and 
they are large and heart-fafhioned, broad, and in- 
dented at the bafe, ferrated at the edges, and 
tharp-pointed: their colour isa dufky green, and 
they are lightly hairy. 
The flowers are very numerous, and ftand to- 
ward the extremities, and at’ the tops of the 
branches: they aré long, and of a beautiful 
purple. fife 
The feed-veflel is very: broad, and extremely 
thin: it is rounded, and terminated by a fender 
point, and when ripe has a filky or fattiny ap- 
pearance 5 whence the plant has been called the 
Sfattin-plant, and Jettin-flower : the feeds are large, 
but not numerous. 
It is a native of Germany, and flowers in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lunaria major fliqua rotun- 
diore. | Others, Viola lunaris vulgaris, and Bulbo- 
nach. \ts proper Englith name is the Round. 
podded lunar violet. 
The feed-veffel is oblong and twifted; and the 
feeds are kidney-fhaped, and large. 
It'is found on ‘our northern mountains, and 
flowers in April. ; 
Petiver'calls it Lunaria contorta major. Plu- 
kenet, Lecoium jive lanaria vafculo fublongo intorto. 
‘Merret, Paronychia Gnaphalii facie. 
This is mentioned a fecond time, though with 
uncertainty, in the fynopfis of Britifh plants, under 
the name of Paronychia fimilis, fed major perennis 
alpina repens. “The author’ fuppofed it might be 
the fame with the formers and it has been found 
to. be fo by thofe who have feen. it in the places 
there mentioned with the, feed-vefiels ripe. 
RELGN SPECLES. 
2. Lunar violet, with oblong pods, 
~ Lunaria JSiliquis oblongis. 
The root is compofed of numerous, thick 
fibres, and remains the winter ;. whereas the other 
is an annual, “dying as foon as the {eed is ripened, 
The firft leaves of this are very large: they 
are fhort.and broad, indented at the bafe, ferrated 
at the edges, and pointed at the ends. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, green, a little 
hairy, and three fect high. 
The leaves on them refemble thofe from the 
root: they are fhort, and heart-fafhioned, fharply 
indented, and pointed; and they ftand on flen- 
der, hairy footftalks. 
The flowers are placed at the tops of the ftalks 
and branches; and are of a pale purple, large, 
and very handfome. 
The feed-veffels are thin and flat, like thofe of 
the common kind ; but they are oblong, 
The feeds are few, large, and brown. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Viola lunaria major Jiliqua ob- 
longa, : 
The virtues of thefe plants are unknown nor 
does it appear, from any manifeft qualities, that 
they are worth regarding. 
GENUS 
