368 The 
BRITISH HERBAL. 
The frefh leaves bruifed are very eminent as 
a vulnerary: they ftop the bleeding of a frefh 
wound, and without any other application heal it. 
3. Broad-leaved yellow Allheal. 
Sideritis latifolia flore flavo. 
The root is compofed of fmall white fibres. 
The firft leaves are fupported on flender foot- 
ftalks ; and they are fhort, broad, a little in- 
dented at the edges, and of a dufky green. 
The ftalk is fquare, ho!low, of a faint green, 
and about a foot high. 
‘The leaves ftand in pairs on it; and they are 
oblong and broad: their colour is a bright green, 
and they are indented at the edges. 
The flowers rife in tufts in the bofoms of the 
leaves; and they are moderately large and yel- 
low. \ 
The feeds are oblong, cornered, and brown. 
It is not uncommon in our northern counties 
in cultivated Jand. . It flowers.in July. 
Ray calls it Sideritis arvenfis latifolia birfuta lutea. 
DEV VSEO NAL 
Canary Allheal. 
Sideritis latifolia Canarienfis. 
The root is long, thick, and brown; and it is 
hung with many fibres. 
The firft leaves are placed on long, flender, 
redifh footftalks; and they are oblong, broad, 
and of a pale green, obtufe at the end, a little 
crenated at the edges, and dented for the ftalk at 
the bafe. 
The ftalk is fhrubby, firm, upright, and not 
much branched, 
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4. Narrow-leaved red Allheal. 
Sideritis anguflifolia flore rubente. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are numerous: they are ob- 
long, narrow; of a brownifh green, and indented 
at the edges: thefe quickly wither. 
The ftalk is fquare, of a purplifh colour, and 
a foot high. ; 
The leaves ftand in pairs; and they are nar- 
row, oblong, of a deep green, and ferrated. 
The flowers are fmall and red : they are placed 
in tufts about the tops of the ftalks; and each is 
variegated with two white fpots on the lower lip, 
The feeds are {mall and brown. 
It is common in corn-fields, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sideritis arvenfis anguftifolia 
rubra. Others, Ladanum fegetum. 
All thefe are fuppofed to be excellent againft 
frefth wounds. 
FOREIGN SPECIES, 
The leaves on it are placed in pairs; and they 
have long, flender footftalks : they refemble thofe 
from the root, but they are fmaller ; and they are 
of a whitifh colour, and foft to the touch, 
The flowers ftand in tufts in the bofoms of the 
upper leaves; and they are fmall and white. 
The feeds are brown. 
It is a native of the Canaries, and flowers in 
July. ; 
Commelin calls it Stachys Canarienfis frutefcens 
verbafci folio. 
It is efteemed an aftringent and vulnerary. 
XXI: 
CALAMINT. 
CPAP ECALM: TON TeHe= Ae 
"THE flower is labiated, and is formed of a fingle petal. The tubular part at the bafe is cylindrick 
and even. The upper lip is divided at the extremity into three points: the lower lip is divided 
into three fegments ; and of thefe the middle one is largeft, and is heart-fafhioned. The cup is hol- 
low, tubular, and formed alfo into two lips. Four feeds follow every flower; and they ftand naked 
in the cup. The whole plant is of a ftrong, and not agreeable fmell, and of an acrid tafte. 
Linnzus places it among the didynamia gymnofpermia, the threads in the flower being two longer 
and two fhorter, and the feeds having no covering but the cup. He does not allow calamint to be 
a diftiné genus, but makes the feveral kinds of it fpecies of Baum or meliffa. 
1, Common Calamint. 
Calamintha vulgaris. 
The root is compofed of numerous, brown 
fibres. 
The ftalks aré woody, and a foot or more in 
height, very much branched, and of a whitifh 
colour. 
The leaves are placed in pairs; and they are 
roundifh, a little waved, or irregularly notched 
at the edges, and of a brownifh green. 
‘The flowers are moderately large, and of a 
bluith white: they ftand in clufters in the bo- 
foms of the upper leaves. 
The feeds are {mall and brown; 
; t is common by way-fides, and flowers in 
uly. 
C, Bauhine calls it Calamintha vulgaris vel offi- 
cinarum Germania. Others, Calamintha major. 
2: Smaller Calamint. 
Calamintha odore pulegit. 
The root is flender, and hung with many fibres. 
The ftalks are branched, and near a foot high: 
they are firm, hard, upright, and of a whitith 
colour. 
The leaves are yery numerous : they are placed 
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