inches high : they are not much branched ; and 
ufually they lie in pare upon the ground: 
The leaves on thefe are placed in pairs at dif. 
tances: they have flender footftalles : they are of 
the fame form with thofe from the root; and 
their colour is a lively green, 
The flowers ftand in a kind of fhort, thick 
fpikes at the tops of the ftalks and branches ; 
and they are fmall and ufually blue, fometimes 
purplith, fometimes red, and fornetimes. white. 
The feeds are fimall and blackifh, 
Dok: Vick SaOsN® “hi 
Jagged Prunella. 
Prunella foliis laciniatis, 
The root is long, and tolerably thick, and 
has many crooked fibres annexed to it. 
The leaves are numerous, and fupported on 
long footftalks: they are of a pale green; and 
they are deeply divided in two or more places 
down to the rib; fo that they refemble in fome 
degree a ftag’s horn. 
The ftalks are fquare, tolerably firm, upright, 
and a foot or more in height. 
The leaves on thefe ftand in pairs at diftances ; 
UG si Cres an 
The ABIRATU SUeE-E ReBeA key ey 
It is common by way-fides, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Proiel/a major folio non dif 
Jeo. Others, Prunella, and Prunella vulgaris. 
Itis agolutinant and aftringént. While wound- 
herbs were in efteem, this was one of the princi- 
“pal. A decoétion of the whole plant is cooling 
and aftringent, and is a good medicine. in thé 
piles. The juice cures inflammations in thé 
mouth, 
FOREIGN SPECIES 
the moft ufual number js only two pairs on each ~ 
ftalk, difpofed as in the betony, one pair at a fmall 
diftance from the ground; the other near the top: 
thefe refemble thofe from the root; but they aré 
lefs. é 
The flowers ftand in a fall tuft at the top of 
the ftalk, and are moderately large: they aré 
fometimes of a pale red, but more ufually white. 
The feeds are largeand blackith. 
It is fréquent in pafture-grounds in the warmer 
parts of Europe. It flowers in June. 
C:Bauhine calls it Prunella folio laciniato; a 
name others have copied. 
Shea Bite CG: 
HOREHOUND. 
MEAGRE REO BO POG Np 
MPHE flower is formed of a fingle petal, and is of the labiated kind: ‘The tubular part, at the 
bafe, is very fhort; and the opening at the mouth is long, and gaping. The upper lip is 
fmall, and lightly divided at the tip; and it ftands upright: the lower lip is broader, and is divided 
into three fegments ; of which the middle one is largeft ; and this turns back. The cup is tubulars 
and fpreads at the mouth: there are ten indentings at the’ edge, alternately larger and fraller, 
Four oblong feeds follow every flower; and they are placed naked in the cup. 
Linnzus places this among the didynamia gymno[permia; the flower having four threads, two of 
which are longer than the others, and the feeds being naked. 
D UVel-s ON ai 
White Horehound. 
Marrubiun album vulgare, 
The root is compofed of a vaft many long, 
crooked, and entangled fibres, joined to a {mall 
head. 
The ftalks are numerous, upright, fquate, of 
a whitifh colour, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves are placed in pairs; and they are 
roundifh, indented a little at the edges, of a firm 
fubftance, and of a whitifh colour. 
The flowers ftand in thick clufters round the 
ftalks at every joint where the leaves grow: they, 
are fmall and white, and the cups in which they 
ftand have a kind of hooked briftles at the tops 
of their feveral indentings. 
When ftrictly examined, thofe flowers are 
found to grow from the bofoms of the leaves, 
BRITISH SPECIE 4; 
though they join round the ftalk: The whole 
plant has a very ftrong fmell. 
It is found in dry paftures, and by road-fides in 
many parts of the kingdon, and flowers in June. 
C. Bavhine calls: it Marrubium album vulgare, 
Others only Marrubium album. - 
It is celebrated againft diforders of the breaft, 
The beft way of giving it is in fotm of a fyrup 
made of the juice prefféd from the leaves and 
tops, with honey. ‘This is a form as old as ‘Dio- 
fcorides ; and the common method of boiling up 
a decoction of an herb with fugar, is not com- 
parable to it on ftich occafions. This fyrup 
of horebound is excellent againft coughs, and 
forenefs of the breatt. 
The leaves reduced to powder ate faid to des 
ftroy worms in the inteftines; but for this we 
have not the fame authority. 
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