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DIV.1 S10 N.cIl- 
Common Foenugreek. 
Fenum Grecum vulgare. 
The root is long, flender, and full of fhort 
fibres. 
The flalks are numerous, thick, very much 
branched, and of a pale green: they are a foot 
and a half long, but not regularly upright. 
The leaves are placed in threes on long foot- 
ftalks: they are oblong, broad, and obtufe at 
the ends; and they are of a,dufky green on the 
upper fide, and of a whitifh colour underneath. 
The flowers ftand on fhort footftalks in the bo- 
foms of the leaves: they are Jarge and white, 
fometimes tinged a little with a faint purple. 
The feed-veffel is long, and the feeds are yel- 
low and large. 
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FOREIGN 
SP BC's; 
It is a native of the Eaft, but is frequently fown 
for ufe. - 
C. Bauhine calls it Fenum Grecum fativum. 
Others plainly Fenum Grecum. 
The feeds contain the virtue of the plant ; and 
they areufed externally with-great fuccefs: they ° 
are emollient and anodyne. They boil to a mu- 
cilage; which, whether ufed alone, or mixed in 
ointments or cataplafms, is excellent againft hard 
fwellings, and againft pain. 
It is recommended iby many in the {ciatica, ap- 
plied outwardly, warm, and frequently repeated ; 
and it is excellent againft {wellings in thetbreafts, 
‘The ointment of marfhmallows owes a great deal 
of its emollient virtue to the feeds of ‘the fanu- 
greek. 
US VI. 
RESTHARROW. 
BN EO: ANGLES: 
HE flower is papilionaceous. The vexillum is of a heart-like thape, and depreffed at the 
fides. The ala are of an oval form and they are not of more than half the length of the 
vexillum. The carina is fharp-pointed, and it is fomewhat longer than the ale: The cup is divi- 
ded into five parts,-and_is of the length of the flower. The feed-veffel is fhort, fwelled, and hairy ; 
and the feeds are kidney-fhaped, and few. 
Linnzeus places this among the diadelphia decandria ; the threads of the flower being ten, in two 
affortments. He places many of the trifoliate plants in one common genus; but this he feparates 
more juftly. : 
DIVISION I. 
1. Common prickly Reftharrow. 
Anonis fpinofa vulgaris. 
This is not a large, but it is a very tough, 
fpreading plant. 
The root is long, thick, and firm: it is fo dif- 
ficult to tear out of the ground, or to break, that 
it. often ftops the inftruments of hufbandry ; 
whence its Englifh name. 
The ftalks are numerous, tough, firm, and 
covered with a redifh bark: they. are a foot and 
half long, they lie fpread upon the ground, 
and they are full of very fharp and ftrong 
prickles. 
‘The leaves are numerous, and of a bright 
green: they grow by threes without footftalks ; 
and they are oblong, narrow, dharp-pointed, and 
ferrated at the edges, 
The flowers ftand on hort footftalks rifing 
from the bofoms of the leayes ; and they are of 
a bright purple, 
The feed-vefféls are fhort, and the feeds are 
numerous and brown. 
It is common by way-fides, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Anonis Spinofa flore purpureo. 
Others, Anonis vulgaris, five refta bovis, and 
Refla lovis purpurea, 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
2. Purple Reftharrow without thorns. 
Anonis non fpinofa purpurea. 
The root is long, and very tough, and is of 4 
whitith colour. 
The ftalk is firm, hard, upright, and of a pale 
green. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it; and are 
oblong, moderately broad, dented at the edges, 
and of a pale green, and a little hairy. 
The flowers ftand in the bofoms of the leaves 
on fhort footftalks ; and arelarge, and of a beau- 
tiful red. 
The feed-veffél is fhort, and the feeds are large 
) and brown. 
It is a native of tough foils, and common in 
moft parts of England. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Anonis /pinis carens pure 
purea. Others, Anonis non fpinofa flore pur- 
pureo. 
3. White Sea Anonis. 
Anonis maritima pubefcens. 
The root is long, flender, white, and tough. 
The ftalks are numerous, branched, of a firm 
fubftance, and of a whitith colour. 
The leaves are numerous and fmall: they are 
oblong, broad, and covered with a white woolly 
matter, 
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