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It is common in damp places, and Hower s,) in A conferve of the roots cures the fluor albus, 
July. A decoétion of the frefh root is excellent in coughs 
and forenefs of the breaft. The root, dried and 
powdered, is good againft fharp loofeneffés, and 
thofe attended with bloody ftools. 
C. Bauhiie calls it Symphytum five confolida 
major. Others, Symphytum majus. 
It isa plant of great virtues. 
agglutinant, and fubaftcingent; 
It is cooling, 
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HE flower has no petals. The cup is formed of four leaves ; and thefe are oblong, erect, and 
unequal: one is placed outermoft, and is larger than the reft; and one innermoft, which is 
fmaller. The feeds are four; and they ftand naked. There are on this plant male and female 
flowers, diftiné on the famie ftalk ; but they differ in nothing except the inner parts. In the male 
flowers there are feveral threads with oblong antherz ; and in the female there are no threads or an- 
therae, but the rudiments of the four facceeding feeds: thefe have no ftyles, but only a kind of downy 
ftigmata. The leaves are finely divided ; has they are placed many together at the joints furround- 
ing the ftalk. 
Linnzus places this among the monacia polyandria , the male and female flowers growing feparate 
upon the fame plant, and the threads in the flower being numerous. He takes away the name pen- 
tapterophylion, by which it is moft commonly known, and calls it myriophyllum. This isa name that 
has been given by the old writers to many water-plants altogether different; and we have therefore 
retained he other. 
The fpecies of this genus are only two; and both are natives of Britain. 
1. Small Water-Milfoil. 
Pentapterophyllum minus. 
The root is long, creeping, and hung with 
many fibres. 
The ftalk is round, upright, of a pale green, 
and a foot high. 
The leaves are finely divided, or compofed 
of very minute parts: feveral of them grow to~ 
gether at each joint; and they refemble feathers, 
being formed of extremely flender, oblong feg- 
ments, united at their bafe to a middle rib. 
The flowers are fmall, and inconfiderable : 
they grow in the bofoms of the leaves from the 
middle to the top of the plant; and they are of 
a greenifh white. 
The feeds are oblong and fmall.. 
It is common in fhallow rivers in many parts 
of England, and flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Millefolium aquaticum flofcu- 
lis ad foliorum nodos. 
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2. Spiked Water-Milfoil, 
Pentapterophyllon fpicatum. 
The root is fmall'and fibrous, > 
. The ftalks are flender, and of a brownith green, 
a foot or two in length, and divided into 
branches. 
The leaves are numerous, and finely divided, 
The flowers ftand in part in the bofoms of the 
leaves, and in part in jointed fpikes at the tops 
of the branches: thefe on the fpikes are the male 
flowers, and thofe in the bofoms of the leaves 
the female ; and thefe latter are followed each by 
four naked, oblong feeds. 
It is found in brooks and rivers, and flowers in 
July. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Miliifolium aquaticum penna- 
tum fpicatum. Others, Myriophyllum aquaticum 
Jpicatum, 
The virtues of thefe plants are unknown. 
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