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Common Agrimony. 
Agrimonia vulgaris. 
The root is formed of feveral thick, tough 
fibres. ; 
The firft leaves are numerous, large, and pin- 
nated: they have fhort, redifh footftalks; and 
each is compofed of about four pair of pinne, 
with an odd one at the end: their colour is 
a beautiful frefh green on the upper fide, and 
greyifh underneath. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and two 
feet high: it is thick, hairy, not at all branched, 
and of a redifh colour, 
_ The flowers are fmall, and of a gold yellow: 
they are placed in a long, flender {pike at the top 
of the ftalk. 
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Small-flowered Agrimony. 
Agrimonia floribus parvis. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a fmall tuft; and are’ 
oblong, and irregularly pinnated : each is com- 
pofed of four or five pairs of {mall pinnz, of an 
uncertain fize, arranged in-pairs along a middle 
rib; at the extremity of which there ftand three 
larger and more regular fegments: they are of a 
deep green on the upper fide, and grey under- 
neath. 
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BRITISH SPECIES. 
The feeds are large and rough, with a kind of 
hooked hairs, 
Itis common in our paftures, and flowers in July, 
C. Bauhine calls it Eupatorium veteruar, Sive 
Agrimonia, Others, Agrimonia, and. Agrimonia 
vulgaris. 
It is a diuretick and deobftruent, greatly re- 
commended by the antients, but very much 
neglected in the prefent pra@ice. It Opens ob-’ 
ftru@ions of the vifcera, and is good in the 
jaundice. It alfo gently and fafely promotes the 
menfes. \ 
The frefh leaves make a tea not unpleafant ; 
and, taken conftantly in this method, the effect 
will be very happy in regularly bringing on that 
difcharge. A fyrup of the root is alfo recom- 
mended againft catarrhs. 
REIGN SPECLES. 
Thé ftalk is round, upright, hairy, redifh, and 
a foot and half high. 
The leaves on the lower part of this refemble 
thofe from the root; but thofe toward the top are 
compofed only of three fegments, fuch as termi- 
nate the three others. 
The flowers are fmall and yellow. 
The feeds are large, naked, and fmooth. 
It is common among trees in Italy, and flowers 
in Auguft. 104) 
C. Bauhine calls it Agrimonte similis: Others, 
Agriminioides. 
S VI. 
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Se Tete Tens) Caaees 
HE, flower is formed of five petals, narrow at the bafe, broader toward the top, and joined at 
ap the fides fo as to form a kind of bell. There are two cups, one proper and particular to each 
flower, the other general or comnvon to the whole tuft. The proper cup is formed of a fingle leaf, 
and is of a hollow fhape, narrow at the bafe, and wide at the rim, where it is folded or. wrinkled, 
but not cut into fegments. The general cup is triple, and it collects the whole tuft of fowers into a 
kind of round head. The feed is fingle and {mall, roundifh, and placed naked in the proper cup of 
each flower. s 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria pentagynia; the threads in the flower being five, and the 
ftyles of the fame number. 
Common Thrift. 
16 Statice vulgaris. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with a 
few fibres: toward the top it ufually divides into 
two or three heads ; and from each of thefe rifes 
a large clufter of leaves. ‘ 
The leaves are long, narrow, and grafly : their 
colour is a bluifh green; and they are fmooth, 
undivided at the edges, and fharp-pointed. 
The ftalk rifes in the centre of a tuft of thefe 
leaves ; and it is round, upright, fimple, naked, 
and of a pale greyifh green. 
The flowers ftand at the top, a great number 
together, in a round clufter: they are moderately 
. Lobel, Caryophyllus marinus minimus. 
large, and of a pale flefhy purple. 
N° 34. : 
The feed is fmall, round, and of a deep brown. 
It is common about our fea-coafts, and flowers 
in June. 
Its regular growth, and the beauty of its fowers, 
have introduced it into gardens, where it feryes 
inftead of box for the edgings of borders, 
C. Bauhine calls it Caryophyllus montanus minor. 
Others, 
Statice montana. 
The addition of montana is not abfurd, for in 
many parts of Europe it is frequent on hills far 
from the fea. Culture makes variations in this 
plant; but there is no other known {fpecies dif- 
tinét from this. 
The root is faid to be aftringent ; but it is not 
ufed. 
iE GENUS 
