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Th BRITISH HERBAL. 
Gobi NN. Usc8 
VII. 
MASTERWORYT, 
Lee Ves Pa liypeR AT O'R arity 
HE flowers are difpofed in rounded umbells. 
ftalks, but feveral fmall ones at the fubdivifions. The cup is fearce vifible. E. 
pofed of five regular petals, nipped at the ends. The feeds are oval, edged with 
marked with two furrows. 
Linnzus places it with the others, 
Matfterwort. 
Imperatoria vulgaris. 
The root is long, thick, and divided; brown 
on the outfide, white within, and of an aroma- 
tick, but very acrid tafte. 
The ftalk is upright, firm, ftriated, branched, 
and four feet high, 
The leaves are compofed of numerous, ob- 
' ong parts, ferrated, of a deep green, and placed 
on branched footftalks, 
GoE 
NEU, 
There are no leaves at the bafe of the principal 
ach flower is com- 
a broad rim, and 
The flowers are fmall and whi 
placed in large umbells. 
The feeds are brown. 
Tt is a native of many of the warmer parts of 
Europe, and flowers in June, 
C. Bauhine calls it Imperatoria major. Others, 
Imperatoria vulgaris, 
te; but they are 
The root is cordial and fudorifick, and is 
greatly recommended againft malignant and pefti- 
lential fevers. 
Soe, 
Te: -Vii A GE: 
EERE MS TAIT CR UF I, 
HE flowers ftand in umbells on numerous fubdivided branches: at the bafe 
4p The cup is divided into five fegments, 
confifts of five petals; which are plain, hollowed, and turned back, The feeds are 
fmooth, marked at the back with five ribs, and flat on the other fide. 
leaves, and at the fubdivifions four, 
ftand feveral 
Each flower 
oblong and 
Linnzus places this with the reft among the pentandria monogynia. 
Lovage. 
Levifticum vulgare. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The ftalk is ftriated, firm, fix feet high, and 
divided into numerous branches. 
The leaves are large; and they are com- 
pofed of very numerous fegments; which are 
oblong, ferrated, fharp-pointed, and of a deep, 
fhining green. 
The flowers are {mall and yellow, and the feeds 
are brown. 
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The whole plant has a ftrong, 
agreeable {mell. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ligufticum vulgare. Others, 
Levifticum vulgare. 
and not very 
It is recommended againft peftilential diforders 
as a cordial and fudorifick. 
An infufion of the root operates by urine fafely 
and powerfully ; and is good againft obftruétions 
of the vifcera, and in the gravel. 
N U_§ X. 
SERMOUNTAIN. 
SILER 
MONTANUM™ 
MPHE flowers are difpofed in umbells, on divided and fubdivided branches 3 and there are {mall 
leaves both at the bafes of the principal branches, and their fubdivifions. 
into five parts, and is very fmall. 
The cup is divided 
The flowers are each formed of five equal petals, bent back at the 
~ ends; and the feeds have a double, foliaceous rim. 
Linnzus places this with the preceding among the pentandria monogynia ; but he does not allow it 
to be a diftinét genus. 
Sermountain. 
Siler montanum vulgare. 
The ftalk. is five feet high, ftriated, hollow, 
and branched. 
The leaves are very beautiful: they are of a 
The root is long, thick, and tufted at the top | bright green, large, and compofed of almoft in- 
with fibres of decayed leaves. _ 
numerable fmall, oblong, pointed fegments, 
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