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t is is nipped at the end; and fo is the upper lip. (The cup is tubular and ftriated, 
a an are and at the top compreffed, and divided into two lips, in the fame manner 
as the Hower. The upper lip of the cup has three, and the lower has two points: The feeds ftand 
naked in the cup, whofe top fhuts over them. The flowers ftand in clufters round the ftalk ; and 
there are no Jeaves under them. 
Linnzeus places this among the diandria monogynia; the threads in the flower being two, and the 
fiyle fingle. 
This author joins it with fage, not allowing it to be a diftinét genus; but the naked difpofition of 
the flower is a fufficient generical diftin@tion. The common writers confound it with clary, horminum ; 
from which it differs as effentially, as we fhall fhew under the fucceeding head. 
Of this genus there is but one known fpecies, and that is a native of Britain. 
Wild Seebright. 
Sclarea pratenjis. 
The root is compofed of numerous, large 
fibres, connected to an oval head. 
The firft leaves are very large, and of a greyifh 
green: they are placed on fhort footftalks; and 
are broad at the bafe, fmaller to the point, and 
irregularly indented at the edges. 
The ftalk is robuft, upright, branched, and 
two foot and a half high: it is brown, and a 
little hairy. 
The leaves ftand in pairs on it; and they have 
fcarce any footftalks: they are large, oblong, 
rough, and irregularly indented at the edges. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches in long fpikes: they are placed on thefe 
in circular tufts at diftances; and there are at 
the utmoft only fome imperfect rudiments of leaves 
GU EMI N | os Wang 
under them: they are very large, and of a beay- 
tiful bluifh purple. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is found in damp places, but is not com- 
mon. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Horiminum praten/e foliis Ser- 
ratis. Others, Sclarea pratenfis, and Sclarea fl 
vefris. 
The feeds of this plant put into the eye, bring 
away any little foulneffes with them. The prac- 
tice is antient ; but the manner of its effect is little 
underftood. As foon as the feed is put in, the 
warmth and moifture of the eye Operating upon 
its own fubftance, cover it with a thick and tough 
mucilage : as it continues moving in the eye, this 
entangles the little fubftances which had got in by 
accident, and occafioned the pain; and brings 
them out with it. 
VII. 
Cirle. Roe ¥, 
HORM™MINUM™ 
HE Hawes is large, and labiated : it is formed of a fingle petal, which is tubular, 
and compref- 
fed in the lower part, and divided in a gaping manner at the top. The upper lip is long, large, 
and crooked; the lowér lip is divided into three fegments, 
the middle one of which is again divided 
into three parts. {The cup is formed of a fingle piece, and is alfo divided into two lips: it is tubular, 
and angulated ; and one of the lips has two, the other three points. 
the tops of the ftalks with a particular kind of coloured leaves about them 
without any flowers among them. 
ufually are fome of thefe leaves in clufters, 
naked in the bottom of the cup. 
Linnzus joins this genus and fage together, 
tinction is fafficient, as we fhall fhew when. treatin 
no fpecies are native of England. He places this 
being 
The flowers ftand in tufts about 
3 and at the top there 
The feeds are placed 
abolifhing the received name horminum : but the dig. 
g of fage among thofe verticillate plants of which 
genus among the diandria monogynia ; the threads 
g, as that term exprefles, two in each flower. 
character confift in the two threads being fplit or forked ; and as t 
well as fage, he for that reafon joins thofe plants under one name. 
is a poor occafion of uniting plants fo obvioufly different as thofe: 
» and the ftyle fingle.» He makes the effential 
his is their form in the clary as 
But in the eye of Reafon this 
and the more curious enquirer 
into the ftruéture of flowers will tell him, that there are fuch variations in the formation of this in- 
ternal part of the flower in fome of thefe plants, 
which in his fpecies he allows to be Salvia, as will 
either remove thofe fpecies out of this genus, or this genus out of the clafs. 
DY Val SON aL 
1. Broad-leaved Wild Clary. 
Horminum fylueftre vulgare. 
The root is long, flender, and furnithed with 
numerous fibres. : 
The firft leaves are large, rough, and of: a: 
dufky green: they are oblong, irregularly di- 
vided at the edges, and rife bur a little from the 
ground, 
BRT I.S H.8' PEC FE. Ss: 
The ftalk grows up in the centre; and is {quare, 
firm, and two feet high: its colour is brown, 
and it is not much branched. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and have fearce any 
footftalks : they are rough, and of a greyith 
green, and are irregularly waved and indented. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in 
long fpikes, which ufually bend or droop a little: 
they are fmall, and of a very fine blue. 
. The 
