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Th BRITISH HERBAL. 
DIVIS EON IL 
Spanifh Horehound. 
Marrubium albun calycibus patentibus. 
“The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
. many fibres. 
The flalk is {quare, upright, and two feet 
high, very little branched, and of a whitifh colour. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and are of a whitifh 
colour, and thick fubftance ; they are roundifh, 
and very lightly indented. 
Gara Nat 
FOREIGN S:P. E,C.1E S, 
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The flowers’ grow in the bofoms of all the 
upper leaves, and furround the ftalks.: they are 
{mall and white. : 
The cups are very wide:at the mouth, and the 
prickles upon them are ftrait 5 not hooked, as in» 
the common borehound. : 
Tt ig not uncommon in Spain and Italy, and | 
flowers in June. 
Boccone calls it Matrudinm Jubrotundo folio. 
S XVI. 
MOTHERWORT. 
CARDIACA. 
HE flower is formed of a fingle petal, 
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and is labiated. The tubular part is flender: the upper 
lip is long, and ofan arched form, and rounded at the end ; the lower lip is turned back, and 
is divided into three equal, or nearly equal fegments. 
The cup is oblong, tubular, angulated, and 
formed of a fingle leaf. The feeds are four, and they ftand naked in the cup. 
\Linnaus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia, ! 
He joins it with the /eonurus, and takes away its received and antient 
it to be a diftinc’ genus. 
name. 
Motherwort. 
Cardiaca. 
The root is compofed of a multitude of thick, 
brown fibres. 
The firfl leaves are placed on long footftalks ; 
and they are large, broad, and fhort : they have 
three’ principal ‘divifions, and their colour is a 
dark ereen. : 
© ‘The ftalk is {quare, hollow, upright, branched, 
anda yard high. 
“The leaves on this are placed in pairs; and 
they are oblong, indented at the edges, and 
fharp-pointed. ; 
G. Ey Naw 
as the preceding 5 but he does not allow 
The flowers are fmall, and have a purplifh 
tinge: they grow in thick tufts at the joints. 
The feeds are brown, and rounded on one fide. 
It is common in watte places, and flowers in July, 
C. Bauhine calls it Marrubium cardiaca diftum, 
Linneeus, Leonurus foliis caulinis trilobis lan- 
ceolatis. 
It is a good medicine in hyfterick cafes. It 
promotes the menfes, and is very ufeful againft 
fits. The beft way of giving it is in form of a 
conferve, made of the frefh tops. It may be alfo 
taken in way of tea; but that way it is unplea- 
fant. 
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XVI. 
TUE TED? BACT 
HON Fale: Nd OncPe: O°DE 1 Ua 
HIE, flower is formed of ‘a fingle petal, and is of the labiated kind. The tubular part is fhort, 
and it fpreads out into a mouth: the upper lip ftands ereét; and is hollowed, obtufe at the 
end, and nipped in the middle : 
the lower lip is divided into three fegments ; and of thefe the middle 
one is largeft, . The cup of each flower is tubular, a little crooked, and divided into two lips: but, 
befide thefe, there is a kind of general cup or covering to the whole clufter of flowers growing to- 
gether ; and this is formed ofa vaft multitude of hairs. The feeds are four after every flower , 
and they ftand naked in the cup. 
> Linnzus places. this among the didynamia gymuofpermia, the flower having two longer and two 
fhorter threads, and the feeds ftanding naked. Our Englifh name is a very imperfect one; for which 
reafon it is more proper to ufe the Latin, clinopodium. : bp e 
‘Great Wild Bafil. ¥ 
Clinopotikum majus. 
The root is fibrous, and runs a great way un- 
der the furface. 
The firft leaves are placed on flender foot- 
ftalks; and they are roundifh, obtufe, hairy, and 
of a pale green. 
The ftalks are fquare and weak : they are a foot 
or more in length, but fcarce able to fupport 
themfelves: they are not much branched ; and 
their colour is a pale green.. The leaves are placed 
in pairs on the ftalk ; ‘and they are fhort, broad, 
obtufe, and.a little indented. : 
The flowers are of a pale red. 
It is common under hedges, and flowers. in 
Auguft. : z 
C.Bauhine calls it Clinopodium ‘origano file. 
Others, Acinos. 
Its virtues are not known, ayes 
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