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IX. 
BU TTER-B UR. 
PiBNTIAS IT ES. 
mut flower is compofed of numerous flofcules,, ranged in a common cup. This is of-a cylindric 
” figure; and is formed of about twenty little, foft leaves. The flofcules are. tubular; and the 
flowers ftand in a fpike upon ftalks, which rife before the leaves. 
Linnzus places this with the reft among the pygencfia. 
1. Common Butter-Bur. 
Petafites vulgaris. 
The root is long, thick, and creeping; of a 
{trong fmell, and bitter, aromatick tafte. 
The flower-ftalks rife before the leaves; and 
they are thick, ftriated, tender, and of a pale 
flefh-colour, not at all branched, and about a 
foot high. 
The. flowers are {mall, and ftand in a long, 
loofe fpike at the top of the ftalk: they are of a 
pale flefh-colour. 
The leaves appear foon after, and grow to an 
enormous fize: they are roundifh, and of a deep 
green on the upper-fide, but whitifh underneath , 
and they are placed on thick, whitifh, hollowed 
footftalks. : 
Tt is common in rich wet foils, and flowers 
in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Petafites major et vulgaris. 
Others only Petafites. 
G cE WN 
PLOWMAN’S 
The root.is a very powerful cordial and fudo- 
rifick. An infufion of it is excellent in malignant 
fevers. 
2. Butter-Bur, with long footftalks to the flowers, 
Petafites flovibys pediculis longis. infidentibus. 
The root is large and fpreading. 
The ftalks fupporting. the flowers are two feet 
high, thick, whitifh, juicy, and covered with 
flight membranes. 
The flowers have long footftalks ; and they are 
numerous, and form a long, loofe fpike: their 
colour is a pale red. 
The -leaves are very large, of a pale green 
above, and they have very little whitenefs below. 
It grows in meadows with us, not uncommon, 
and flowers in April. 
Ray calls it Petafites major floribus:pediculis lon- 
gioribus infidentibys. The old authors did ‘not 
know it. 
‘ 
U Ss 2 is 
SPIKENARD. 
BY AG iC 5h Agar. LS, 
PERS flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, ranged in a common cup; and this is fhort, 
thick, and rounded. The feales compofing it are numerous, and they ftand feparate at the 
points. The flofcules are {mall and tubular, and the leaves of the plant are undivided. 
Linnzus places this with the reft among the fyagene/ia. 
Common Plowman’s Spikenard. 
Baccharis vulgaris, 
The root is long, thick, divided, and fpreading. 
The ftalk is a yard high, firm, round, brown- 
ifh, and divided into numerous branches. 
The leaves are large, oblong, broad, of a dufky 
green, and undivided. 
The flowers are naked, fmall, and of a dufky 
yellow. 
G & 
Me Ue as 
It is common in dry, wafte grounds, and flowers 
in July. ‘ 
C. Bauhine calls it Conyza major vulgaris, 
Others, Baccharis Monfpelienfium. . 
The whole plant has a fragrant fmell. 
It is a powerful diuretick, and excellent againft 
the gravel. It is beft taken in infufion. 
XI. 
HEMP-AGRIMONY. 
EUPATORIUM, 
HE flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, arranged in a common cup. This is oblong; 
and confifts of many natrow, pointed fcales, laid over one another, The flofcules are tubu- 
‘ar, and divided into five fegments at the edge. 
Linnzeus places this with the others among the fyagenefia, the buttons coalefcing in a cylinder. 
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