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WHITLOW-GRAS&5, 
PARONYCHTA 
HE flower is compofed of four petals, which open crofs-ways: 
"E and have very flender bottoms. The cup is (ores of four ie ae aes figure, 
fall with the flower. ‘The feed-veffel is qblong, flatted, and has fo fmall a point ie the ae 
it appears almoft deftitute of any : it is: compofed of two valves, and divided into tw te pas 
membrane that runs parallel with them. The feeds are numerous and finall. SNe Te 
Linnzus places this among the tetradynamia Jiliculofa,; the threads i . 
longer and i fhorter, and the feed-yeffel a regular eee or fhale, n the flower. being four 
This author abolithes the received name of the plants of this genus, and joins them ie 
others under the’ term draba. 
DIV-LS-t0 N= fab Rot IT oes SPB Cal tes, 
rt. Common Whitlow-grafs. 
Paronychia vulgaris. 
The root is long, flender, and hung with a 
multitude of little fibres. 
The leaves rife in a thick tuft, and are {mall, 
and of a dufky green) they are oblong and ob- 
tufe, and not at all indented at the edges. 
The ftalks rife in the center of this tuft of 
leaves, many together: they are upright, flender, 
yellowifh, and three or four inches high. 
‘There are no leaves on thefe, but ufually to- 
ward the tops a great number of flowers and feed- 
vefiels. 
The flowers are {mall and white. 
The feed-veflels are oval, flat, and yellowith ; 
and the feeds are numerous, and very fmall. 
It is common on walls and the top of houfes, 
and flowers very early in fpring. 
C.Bauhine calls it Burfa paftoris minor loculo,ob- 
longo. Others, Paronychia vulgaris. 
the leaves bruifed to whitlows on 
but a common pultice would an- 
fe better; or thefe leaves, if ufed, 
People lay 
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{wer their purpo: 
fhould be mixed with it. 
The leaves of this plant are fometimes flightly 
jndented, and fome have defcribed it in this cafe 
under the name of a diftinct fpecies ; but it is 
DIVISION IL 
1, Yellow Alpine Whitlow-grafs. 
Paronychia lutea Alpina. 
The root is thick, long, divided, and fur- 
nifhed with numerous fibres. 
The leaves rife from it in a very thick tuft, 
and ftand extremely clofe in vaft numbers: they 
are very fmall, fhort, and fharp-pointed : they 
are broad at the bafe, and not at all indented. 
‘The ftalks are numerous, weak, round, flen- 
der, and naked 5 and they are about three inches 
high. . ’ 
“Che flowers ftand at the tops, fix or eight on 
each, and they have long and very flender foot- . 
ftalks : they are fmall, and of a bright yellow. 
The feed-veffels are oval and fmall, and the 
feeds are very minute and brown, 
one of thofe accidental varieties which will rife 
from the fame feeds with the other. gett 
2. Branched Whitlow-grafs, 
Paronychia:ramofa birfistas 
pie Fait long, lender, and furnithed with 
The firft leaves rife ina thick tufts and are 
oblong, broad, of ‘a dufky green, and hairy: 
they have no footftalks, and they are fharply ce 
rated at the edges, and pointed at the ends. 
The ftalk rifes in the center, and is round up* 
right, very much branched, hairy, and ten stig 
high. : 
~The leaves are placed irregularly, and are 
broad and fhort: they are largeft at the bafe, nar- 
rower all the way to the point, and ferrated on 
the edges, ; 
The flowers are fimall and white: they fland 
in little tufts at the tops of all the branches. 
The feed-vefiels are of an oval form, fmall, flat, 
and yellowifh ; and, when the plant has flowered 
fome little time, they ftand in long fpikes beneath 
the flowers: the feeds are {mall and brown. 
C. Bauhine calls this Barfa paftoris major locuto 
oblongo. Others, Thla/pi foliis veronica. 
It is found on the hilly parts of our northern 
counties, and flowers in April, 
FOREIGN SPECHES, 
It is 'a native of the Alps, and flowers in April, 
C. Bauhine calls it Sedum Alpinum luteum 5 but 
the form of the {eed-veflel fhews the error of that 
Morifon calls it Burfa pafigyis Alpina lus 
name. 
tea rofea. Columna, Leucoinm luteum aizcides 
montanum. Some years the feafon not favouring, 
it is very minute; but ufually it is of the fize and 
form defcribed here, ; 
2, Branched yellow Whitlow-grafs. 
Paronychia ramofa flore aureo. 
The root is long, flender, and furnithed with 
many fibres. f 
The leaves rife in a tuft without footftalks ; 
and they are broad, oblong, and of a pale green, 
very-hairy, and lightly ferrated at the edges, 
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