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divided into five points at the edge. Befidé this cup to every flower, there is a general involucrum 
for each clufter of flowers; which is compofed of narrow leaves, and divided in halves. 
Linneus places this among the didynamia gymnafpermia; the flower having two longer and two 
“Shorter threads, and the feeds ftanding naked. 
DPV ASSO Bast 
Stinking Hoarhound. 
Ballote fetida vulgaris, 
The root is thick, long, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
' The ftalks are numerous, fquare, and upright: 
they are light, hollow, and a yard high. 
The leaves are placed in pairs: they have flen- 
der footftalks ; and they are of a rounded figure, 
and dark green colour, indented at the edges, 
foft to'the touch, and hairy. 
The flowers are of a pale purple: they ftand 
DIVISION IL. 
Woolly Ballote. 
Ballote caule lanato. 
The root is long, divided, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. : 
The ftalk is fquare, hollow, and upright; of 
a whitifh colour, and covered with a woolly 
matter, 
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BRITISH SPECIES, 
in clufters in the bofoms of the leaves furround: 
ing the ftalks. 
It is common in wafte grounds, and flowers in 
June. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Marrubium nigrum fotidum 
ballote Diofeoridis, Others, Ballote. 
This is one of thofe plants which poffefs great 
and unregarded virtues. It is one of the beft 
remedies in medicine for hypochondriac and hy- 
fterick complaints. It may be taken in form of 
a conferve made of the frefh-gathered tops, and 
in infufion in the manner of tea. 
REIGN SPECIES. 
The leaves ftand in pairs ; and they are broad, 
and deeply divided into three or five fegments. 
The flowers are large and white. 
It is a native of Siberia, and flowers in Au-— 
guft. 
Amman, to whom we owe the knowledge of 
this fingular plant, calls it Ballota Soltis Geranit 
batrachoidis. 
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HOODED WILLOWHERB, 
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TYAHE flower is labiated: it is formed of a fingle petal, 
turns backward. The opening is long, and flatted alfo. 
ded into three fegments. 
The tubular part is very fhort, and 
The upper lip is hollow, and divi- 
The cup is tubular, and undivided at the mouth, where it has a kind of 
icale that falls over the opening to preferve the feeds, 
This has the fhape of a head-piece, and ferves 
as a feed-veflel ; and this alone will abundantly diftinguih the plant. The feeds are four after every 
flower ; and they ftand naked in the cup, 
under the thelter of this moft fingular covering. 
Linnzus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia ; there being two longer and two fhorter 
threads in the flower, and the feeds having no'capfule. The plant perfectly agrees with the reft in the 
character of the clafs, which is, that the feeds lie in the cup without a feed-veffel ; 
but it does not 
well anfwer to the term devifed by this author to exprefs its for they are not naked, though they 
have no capfule. 
1. Common Caffida, 
Cafida vulgaris, 
The root is fall and creeping : it is jointed 
at certain diftances, and fends fibres from thofe 
" joints. 
The ftalk is fquare, upright, branched, and 
about ten inches high. 
_ The leaves ftand in pairs, and have {carce any 
footftalks : they are oblong, broad at the bafe, 
narrower all the way to the point, and ferrated 
at the edges. 
The flowers are large, and of a fine violet 
blue: two of them grow together from the bo- 
~ foms of the leaves, and they hang drooping. 
The feeds are fmall and dufky-; and they are 
covered in the cup with a fhelly fubftance, like 
a head-piece. 
It is common by the fides of ditches, and 
flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ly/fmachia cerulea galericu- 
lata five gratiola cerulea. Others, Tertianaria, 
and Caffida vulgaris, 
2. The Leffler Caffida. 
Coffida minor flore purpurafcente. 
The root creeps under the furface: it is 
jointed, and fends out fibres from thofe joints. 
The ftalk is fquare, upright, branched, and 
about fix inches high : it is ftriated, and of a re- 
difh colour. 
The leaves ftand in pairs; and are’ broad, 
fhort, and indented. : 
The flowers are purple; and they grow from 
the bofoms of the leaves. > — » 
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