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BrUPRN, EL. 
SANGUISORBA. 
WP HE Rowet is compofed of a fingle petal, 
deeply divided into four fegments: thefe are broad, 
and obtufe at the end, narrow at the bafe, and united only at their very bottoms; fo that the 
flower, to an incurious obferver, would feem to have four petals. 
they ftand oppofite to one another, and they fall with the 
fmall leaves: thefe are fhort and broad: 
The cup is compofed of two 
flower. The feed is fingle, naked, and roundith, and has a double kernel. 
Linnzus places this among the tetrandria monogynia ; 
ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit being fingle. 
1. Common Burnet. 
Sanguiforba vulgaris. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are long, and very beautifully 
pinnated : each is compofed of fix or mote pairs 
of pinne, with an odd one at the end; and thefe 
are fhort, broad, ferrated, and fharp-pointed. 
Their colour is a beautiful green. 
The ftalk is fender, upright, and toward the 
top it is divided into feveral branches : the leaves 
on it are like thofe from-the root, each compofed 
of feveral pairs of dentated piane, with an odd 
one at the end. 
The flowers are placed in fmal] oblong heads 
at the tops of the branches : thefe heads are 
brown, but the flowers themfelves are of a faint 
purple. 
The feeds are fmall and cornered. 
It is common by road-fides, and in hilly paf- 
tures. It flowers in June. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Sanguiforba minor, Others, 
Pimpinella vulgaris, and Pimpinella fanguiforba mi- 
nor. 
» 2. Great Burnet. 
| Sanguiforba major. 
The root is compofed of numerous thick fibres. 
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the threads in the flower being four, and the 
The firft leaves are large and pinnated: each 
is compofed of three or four pairs of pinnz, with 
an odd one at the end; and thefe are oblong, 
moderately broad, and fharp-pointed, ferrated at 
the edges, and of a deep green. 
The ftalk is upright, flender, branched, and 
two feet high. 
The leaves on this refemble thofe from the 
root; but they are fmaller. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 
in fhort oblong heads: they are of a very faint 
and dull purplifh colour; and the heads are 
brown between them. 
The feeds are {mall and cornered. 
It is common in paftures, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sanguiforba major. 
_ Thefe two fpecies have the fame general qua- 
lities; but the firft poffeffes them in the greater 
degree. It is a cordial and fudorifick : it wa, 
much ufed formerly to give a flavour to wine; 
but it is now neglected. 
It is an aftringent of confiderable power. The 
root dried and powdered ftops purgings; or it 
may be given in form of a ftrong decoétion to the. 
fame purpofe. The juice of the leaves is good 
againft hemorrhages. 
VII. 
MEADOW-RUE. 
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HE flower is compofed of four petals :. they are roundifh, and hollowed, and are of fhort dura- 
tion. There isno cup. The feed is fingle after every flower, and it is furrounded by a rough 
wrinkled fkin. 
The leaves are divided into many parts, and the flowers grow in clufters, 
Linnzus places this among the polyandria polygynia ; the threads in the flower being numerous, and 
growing to the receptacle 3 and the ftyles from the rudiment of the feed alfo numerous. 
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1. Common Meadow-Rue. 
Lhalifirum vulgare. 
The root is compofed of innumerable long, 
thick, and fpreading fibres, : 
The ftalk is firm, upright, ftriated, purplifh 
toward the bottom, and three feet high. 
The leaves are large, and very beautifully divi- 
ded or compofed of numerous fmall parts, placed 
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on feparate fhort footftalks, on a large divided 
rib: thefe are notched at the edges, efpecially to- 
ward the points ; and are of a bluifh green, but 
deep and dufky. ; 
The flowers are fmall and whitifh: they ftand 
in great clufters on the ftalks. 
The feeds are brown. 
It is common in meadows, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine 
