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It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, 
and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Heliotropium majus Diofcori- 
dis, Others, Heliotropium majus, and Heliotro- 
pium vulgare. 
An infufion of the plant given in large quan- 
tities operates by urine, and is good againft the 
gravel. The juice applied outwardly takes away 
warts. 
2. Procumbent Turnfole. 
Heliotropium fupinum minus. 
The root is long, flender, and blackith. 
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The ftalks are numerous and weak: they {pread 
themfelves every way upon the ground ; and they 
are fix or eight inches long, and divided into many 
branches. ? 
The leaves are placed alternately on fhort 
footftalks ; and they are fmall, broad, obtufe, 
fhort, of a beautiful green, and a little hairy. 
The flowers are fmall and white; and they 
are placed, as in the others, in long curled fpikes. 
It is common in the fouth of France, and 
flowers in June. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Heliotropium minum fupinum. 
Others, Heliotropium fupinum Clufii. 
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HE flower is formed of a fingle petal. The lower part is {mall and tubular: the upper part is 
alfo hollowed, but larger, and at the rim is divided lightly into five fegments. Its hollow is 
open : there are none of thofe little {cales, which clofe it in many other genera. The cup is formed 
of a fingle piece; but it is deeply divided into five fegments equal-in fize, and pointed. The feeds 
are four after every flower; and they are enclofed in two loofe fkins, which are rough and hard. 
Linnaus places this among the pemtandria monogynia ; the filaments in the flower being five, and 
~ the ftyle fingle. 
Great Honeywort. 
Cerinthe major. 
The root is long, thick, and white. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, flefhy, and a 
foot and half high: they are of a pale and fome- 
what bluifh green. 
The leaves are placed alternately at {mall dif- 
tances; and they ufually hang drooping: they 
are large and broad. Their colour is a bluifh 
green, and they are {potted with white: they are 
broadeft at the bafe, and obtufe at the end. 
The flowers are large; and they are placed in 
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confiderable numbers upon flender branches rifing ~ 
from the bofoms of the leaves: they are yellow 
in the upper part, and purple at the bafe. The 
tops of the branches that bear them naturally turn 
down fpirally, as in the moufe-ear fcorpion-grafs, 
It is a native of the fouthern parts of Europe, 
and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cerinthe flore flavo afperior. 
This is the plant celebrated by the old Romans 
as the favourite of the bees. The flower contains - 
a great deal of honey-juice. 
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TOURNEFORTIA. 
HE flower is formed of a fingle petal. The lower lip is tubular, and of an oval figure; and it - 
thence {preads into a broad rim, which is cut lightly into five broad, but pointed fegments. 
The cup is formed alfo of a fingle piece, divided deeply into five feoments. The feeds are four; and 
they are furrounded with a fkin, and feparated by a pulpy fubftance. 
Linnaus places this among the pentandria monogynia ; the filaments in the flower being five, and 
the flyle fingle. 
Nature wantons in the characters of this plant: its fruit approaches to the nature of a berry ; 
while all the other parts, and in this the number of feeds, correfpond with the reft, : 
Oval-leaved Tournefortia. 
Lournefortia foliis ovatis integris. 
The root is long, divided, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The ftalk is woody, and yet weak ; but it will 
climb to a great length, when there are trees oF 
buthes to fupport it: it is of a pale green, and 
fmooth. 
The leaves are placed alternately ; and they are 
large, oblong, of an oval form, fharp-pointed, 
not at all dented at the edges ; of a beautiful deep 
green on the upper fide, and of a blue green un- 
derneath, 
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The flowers ftand in long feries on the tops of 
the ftalks and branches, which divide for that 
purpofe into numerous twigs: they run only on 
one fide of thefe; and they are {mall and yel- 
low. 
It is frequent in the woods of South America, 
and flowers in July. 
Plukenet calls it Virga aurea Americana fru- 
tefcens glabra foliis fubtus cafiis. But this was a 
very improper generical name. Plumier called 
the genus Pittonia, and Linneus J ournefortia, 
both after the name of the author of the Jy/fitu- 
tiones rei herbaria. ; 
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