The BRITISH HERBAL. 
DAV TS OLN I 
1. Branched Sclomon’s Seal. 
Polygonatum ramofum. 
The root is compofed of a vaft number of thick 
fibres, connected to a {mall head. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and branched, 
and is two feet and a half high. 
The leaves are very large, and of a fine deep 
green: they furround the ftalk by a broad bafe, 
and grow fmaller thence to a point. 
The flowers are fmall and whitifh : they hang 
fingly on long, flender, and; as it were, jointed 
footftalks, rifing from the bofoms of the leaves : 
they are white, with a faint tiné of green. 
The berries are at firft green and fpotted, but 
afterwards red. 
It is frequent in Germany, and flowers in Au- 
guft, 
C. Bauhine calls it Polygonatum latifolium ra- 
mofum. 
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FOREIGN SPEHRCIE’S: 
2. Narrow-leaved Solomon’s Seal. 
Polygonatum anguftifolium, 
The root is thick, large, and of an irregular 
form, and {preads under the furface. 
The ftalks are round, firm, upright, and a 
foot and half high: they are rarely branched, but 
fometimes they divide a little. 
‘The leaves are oblong, narrow, fharp-pointed, 
and of a pale green: they do not ftand in the 
manner of thofe in the other kinds, but furround 
the talks like the leaves of the ftellate plants. 
The flowers hang from the bofoms of the leaves 
on fingle footftalks, ufually one from the bofom 
of each Jeaf: they are fmall and white. 
The berries are roundifh, and, when ripe, of a 
fine red. ; 
It is a native of Germany, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Polygonatum anguftifolium non 
ramofun. He diftinguifhes another under the 
name of Polygonatum anguftifolium ramofum, but 
it is only a variety of this. 
IN) = ASS V. 
sLILLY OF THE VALLEY 
LILLIUM CONVALLIUM. 
HE flower is formed of 4 fingle petal; and is hollow and globular. 
berry is roundifh, divided into three cells within, and before its 
leaves are few, and nervous, 
Linnzus places this among the hexandria mon 
ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. 
name, writing it convallaria, 
Dele Veto ot ON a |e 
1. Common Lilly of the Valley. 
Lillium convallium vulgare. 
The root is long, flender, fpreading, and creep- 
ing to a great diftance under the furface. 
The leaves that rife from this are ufually 
two, fometimes three they are very large, and 
of a fine green, oblong, broad, and fharp-pointed ; 
and they are of a firm fub ance, and marked with 
high and large ribs. 
The ftalk which bears the flowers rifes near the 
ftem, which fupports. the leaves, and is com- 
monly connected to it by a membranous cafe. 
There are no leaves on this ftalk. 
The flowers grow at the top in a kind of fpike ; 
but they all hang one way : they are large, of a 
whitifh colour, and of an extremely fragrant 
{mell, 
DIVISLON -IE 
Oneblade. 
Lillium convallium. foliis cordatis, 
This is a very fingular little plant: it has been 
defcribed by authors under a diftin@ name ; but 
jt is in all refpe€ts a true and proper Jilly of the 
valley. 
FOREIGN 
There is no cup. The 
growing ripe is fpotted. The 
ogynia ; the threads in the flower being fix, and the 
He feparates it from the reft of the berry-bearing plants 
by feveral claffes, and joins it in the fame genus with the polygonatu: 
i. Fle alfo changes the received 
BRITISH SPECIES... 
The berries are large, round, and red. 
It is common in our woods, but does not al- 
ways arrive at perfection. In many places only 
the Jeaves are feen, the plants never flowering ; 
and in many others the berries do not ripen, 
C. Bauhine calls it Lilium convaliinn album, 
Others, Lillium convallium vulgare. 
It is an excellent medicine in nervous cafes, 
The flowers have the Principal virtue, They . 
may be taken in infufion; but the bett way is in 
conferve: they are thus good againft head-achs, 
and all nervous complaints. 
Dried and powdered, they act as fnuff, and do 
great fervice in‘ inveterate diforders of the head. 
Ray mentions a variety of this plant, which 
had impofed on fome as a difting {pecies. The 
leaves inthis are narrower, and the flowers {maller 5 
but this is only accidental. 
SPECIES, 
The root is long, flender, divided, and creep« 
ing. : , 
The firft appearance of the plant is ima fingle 
leaf, fupported ona long footftalk : this obtained 
it the name oneblade, for when it rifes to flower 
. it has two. 
The footftalk that fupports the firft leaf is re- 
ie - diths 
