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Fine-leaved Sea-Lavender. 
Limonium foliis tenuiffimis. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. : 
The firft leaves rife in a thick tuft; and they 
are long, very flender, and grafly: fometimes 
they are divided, but ufually quite fimple. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and of a pale 
green: it divides toward the top intoa vaft num- 
ber of branches. 
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FOREIGN SPECIES. 
The leaves on this are very fmall, oblong, and 
compofed of a very few flender fegments. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in 
fhort clufters, and are of a pale red, 
The feeds are fall, fingle, and naked. 
Tt is a native of the coaft of Africa, and flowers 
in June. 
Plukenet calls it Limonium minimum comatun 
elegans. : 
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BASTARD TOADFLAX. 
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HE flower has no petals. The cup is formed of a fingle piece, lightly divided into five obtufe 
a 0 fegments ; which ftand upright, and are coloured on the inner fide: fome have called them, 
but erroncoufly, petals. The feed is fingle, roundifh, and naked: it remains in the bofom of the cup. 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria monogynia ; the threads in the flower being five, and the 
ftyle fingle. 
He takes away its old name Jinaria adulterina, 
ledged a very ill conftructed generical term. 
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Common Baftard Toadflax. 
Thefium vulgare. 
The root is long, thick, divided, and furnifhed 
with numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a tuft; and are oblong, 
narrow, fharp-pointed, and undivided at the 
edges: their colour is a pale green, and they 
have no footftalks. » | 
The ftalks are roundifh, upright, brown, and 
a foot high: they are not much branched, and 
they generally grow many together. 
The leaves are numerous, and placed irregu- 
larly: they are long, narrow, and fharp-pointed : 
they have no footftalks; they are undivided at 
the edges, and of a pale green. 
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1. Yellow-flowered Baftard Toadflax. 
Thefium flove flavo. 
The root is long, thick, brown, and furnifhed 
with many fibres. 
The ftalk is round, upright, flender, and ten 
inches high. 
The leaves ftand alternately ; and they are ob- 
_ long and broad, of a pale green, undivided at the 
edges, and obtufe at the end. 
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and calls it thefium. The other muft be acknow- 
TVD oTSsble “SPE C21 Rise 
The flowers ftand in great number at the tops 
of the ftalks in a kind of fpikes; and they look 
white, the infide of the cup being of that colour, 
The feed is fingle and large. 
It is common on fome hilly grounds, and 
flowers in June. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Linaria montana flofculis al- 
bicantibus. Others, fine linaria folio, and Li- 
nophyllon. : 
We have an inftance in this plant how very 
carelefsly the old writers impofed names. There 
is no refemblance of /izaria in the flower of this 
plant. ‘The leaves and manner of growing were 
the occafion of the title. 
Its virtues are unknown. 
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The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 
little, and of a gold yellow. 
The feed is fingle, round, and naked. 
It is common in the paftures of Virginia and 
Penfylvania, and flowers in July. 
Plukenet calls it Centaurium luteum aferyoides 
Virginianum. Linneus, Thefium floribus umbella- 
tis folits oblongis. 4 
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AGRIMONY. 
AiGigk of MYON STA: 
HE flower is compofed of five fmall petals : they are broad, and nipped at the top 5 and they have 
narrow bafes, by which they adhere to the cup. The cup is double ; the inner one is fmall, and 
ftands upon the rudiment of the fruit: this is div 
ided flightly into five fegments, and it is hid as it 
were by the other or outer, which is larger. The feed is fingle, naked, rough, and has a double kernel, 
Linnzus places this among the dodecandria digynia ; the threads being twelve in each flower, and 
the ftyles from the rudiment of the fruit two. 
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in fmall clufters about five together: they are 
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