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HE flowers are male and female on the fame plant. 
with an oval, {mall nectarium. In the female there is only a rudi- 
cup, and four filaments ; 
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The. male flower confifts of a four-leaved 
ment of the feed, with a rough top, in acup, fplit into two parts. 
Linneeus places this among the monecia tetrandria. 
1. Common Nettle: 
Urtica vulgaris. 
The root is creeping. 
The ftalk is ridged, a yard high, branched, and 
befet with little prickles, at whofe bafe are blad- 
ders of a fharp, watery juice, which inflames the 
fkin, when let in by the puncture of the prickles. 
The leaves are large, broad, oblong, fharp- 
pointed, ferrated, and covered with the fame 
prickles. 
The flowers are greenifh, and inconfiderable. 
It is common by way-fides, and flowers in 
July. 
The male and female flowers in this genus, I 
have obferved, are fometimes on the fame, and 
fometimes on diftinét plants. 
2, The Leffer Nettle, 
Urtica minor. » 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalk is a foot high, not often branched, 
of a dufky green, and full of fpines. 
The leaves are broad, fhort, and. ferrated. 
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‘are deobftruent. 
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The flowers are greenifh. 
It is common about. gardens, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls this Urtica urens minor; the 
former, Urtica urens maxima. 
3: Roman Nettle. 
nde pilulifera. 
The root is Bibivis and creeps. 
The ftalk is ridged, two feet high, and 
branched. 
The leaves are large, oblong, ferrated, co- 
vered with poifoned fpines, and of a deep green. 
The male flowers are greenifh, and inconfider- 
able: the female are fucceeded by round, large 
balls, covered with fpines, and containing the 
feeds. 
It is ‘wild in our northern counties, flowering 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Urtica urens pilas ferens. 
The tops of the common nettle, eaten in fpring, 
‘The roots are a powerful and 
excellent diuretick. 
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THE flowers are male and female on the fame plant. 
The male flowers are cluftered together, 
many in one cover, and confift each af five filaments, placed in a tubular cup, divided at the 
edge into five fegments. 
The female flowers are contained two only in one cup, which is formed of 
two leaves, each divided into three lobes; the middle one largeft, -and covered with hooked fpines, 
The fruit fucceeding thefe is alfo oblong, and covered with hooked thorns. 
Linnzus places this among the monecia pentandria. 
Xanthium, called Small Burdock. 
Xanthium vulgare. 
The root confifts of an oblong head, and many 
fibres. 
The ftalk is ftriated, purplifh, branched, and 
tough. 
The leaves are large, and of a pale green, of 
Ginwione Tg 
an oval and fomewhat cordated form, and fers 
rated. 
The flowers are fmall and whitifh; the fruit is 
hard, echinated, and of a purplifh brown. 
It grows on the edges of our fen- “counties, and, 
flowers in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lappa minor Xanthium Dio- 
fcoridis. 
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pp Hower confifts of fix very {mall filaments, with three ftyles, placed in a cup compofed of 
fix leaves, three outward, and three inward, all remaining with the feed, which is fingle, 
and three-cornered. 
Linnzus places this among the bexandria trigynia, and fuppofes the three inner fegments of the 
cup, petals. 
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