_Th BRITISH HERBAL 
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Natives of BrRiratin, 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies ate natutally wild in this country, 
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BUGLOSS COWSLIP, 
PULMONARIA, 
HE flower is formed of a fingle petal : it is tubular at the bottom : and is of the length of tiie cup 
in this part. The rim is divided into five obtufe fegments, 
fingle piece, ftriated, and nipped in five places at the edge. 
and they ftand naked. 
Linnzus places this:among the péntandria mon 
the ftyle fingle. 
DIVISION If. 
Long-leaved Pulmonaria, 
Pulmonaria longifolia. 
The root is fibrous: 
~The firft leaves afe numerous, large, and bedu- 
tiful: they are long, and moderately broad, 
fharp-pointed, not at all indented at the edges, 
and of a deep ‘gteen colour, handfomely varie- 
gated with fpots of white. 5 
The ftalk is firm, upright, not much branched, 
and a foot and half high. 
The leaves on this refemble thofe from the 
root; but they are {maller, 
The flowers are very beautiful : they are placed 
in little tufts at the tops of the ftalks and branches | 
DIVISION IJ. 
Broad-leaved Pulmonaria, 
Pulmonaria latifolia. 
The root is compofed of long and brown 
fibres. : 
The leaves are very numerous, and fpread 
themfelves into a thick tuft: they are fupported 
on footftalks ; and they are broad, fhort, fharp- 
pointed, not ferrated at the edges, of a deep 
green colour, and very agreeably fcattered over 
with white irregular fpots. 
The ftalks are numerous, low, not branched, 
and of a pale green: they are eight or ten inches 
in height ; and their leaves ftand irregularly, and 
are broad and fhort. 
The flowers grow in tufts at the tops of the 
The cup is tubular, formed of a 
The feeds are four after every flower ; 
agynia ; the filaments in the flower being fives and 
BRITISH SPECIEs, 
i the manner of cowflips, which they refemble 
alfo in their fhape. Their colour is a fine bright 
red while in thé bud; but they grow putplith 
and bluifh; as.they open. - 
The feeds are roundith 3 
It is found wild in fome of our latge woods, 
and for its beauty is brought thence into gars 
dens. f 
C. Bauhine cails it Puimonaria angiftifolia ruc 
bente caeruleo flore. Others, Pulmonarig foliis 
echii. Our Englih gardeners call this and the 
following duglo/s cow/lips, and Sage of Ferufalem, 
But thefe are bad names; and as our language 
affords no better, it is beft to ufe the Latin, 
FOREIGN SPECIES 
ftalks, and refemble cow/lips in form: they aré 
of a delicate red when in the bud, but of a fine 
celeftial blue when open, : 
The feeds are oblong and obtuf. 
It is a native of the woods of Germany; and 
flowers in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Symphytum maculofum, five 
Pulmonaria latifolia. Others, Pulmonaria max 
culofa, 
It is good in obftruétions of the vifcera, and 
in the jaundice. The leaves and freth tops boiled 
in ale are a familiar medicine among the peafants 
of Germany in this diforder; and yery fucceffs - 
ful. 
@ EN wl BR aL 
HOUNDS-TONGUE. 
CYNOGLOSSUM, ° 
HE flower is formed of a fingle petal: it is tubular at the bafe; and divided into five obtufe 
fegments at the edge, and its opening is clofed by five little feales. The cup is formed of a 
fingle leaf, and is divided into five fegments at the edge. The feeds are four after every fower: 
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