492 The 
BRITISH HERBAL, 
The flowers are very numerous, very fmall, and 
of a gold yellow. 
It is common in woods, and flowers in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Saxifraga rotundifolia aurea. 
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Nis, 
An infofion of it is gently diuretick. 
The leaves of this plant fometimes have the 
footftalks a little longer ; and in that ftate it has 
been. defcribed as a diftinét {pecies. 
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AS AR AjB ASG. C A. 
AS ATR UM, 
HE flower has no petals. It confifts of a cup, which is formed of one piece, hollow, and di- 
vided into three fegments at the edge, of a bell-like form, coloured, tough, and permanent. 
The feed-veffel is of a tough fubftance. It is contained within the fubftance of the cup ; and is di- 
vided into fix cells, with numerous feeds in each. 
Linnzeus places this among the dodecandria monogynia; the threads being twelve in each fower, 
and the ftyle fingle. 
Afarabacca. 
Afarum. 
The root creeps juft at the furface of the 
_ ground, - 
The leaves are roundifh, but indented deeply 
for the ftalk, and of a fine green. 
The flowers grow clofe to the ground ; and are 
of a greenifh colour, more or lefs tinged with 
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purple. This conftitutes the whole plant, for 
there is no rifing ftalk. 
It is found in our northern woods, flowering in 
April. 
All authors call it 4/zrum. 
The root is a very rough vomit ; but its juice, 
and the powder of the whole plant, are ufeful to 
rae fheezing, and draw humours from the 
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LADY’S MANTLE, 
AcE Cele Ea Tel ee 
THE flower has no petals. 
divided into eight fegments, alternately larger and fmaller. 
the cup. 
1. Common Lady’s Mantle. 
Alchemilla vulgaris. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres. 
The ftalks are round, not very upright, | 
branched, and a foot in length. 
The leaves are extremely beautiful: they are 
of aroundifh form, divided into many pointed 
fezments at the edges, and folded. 
Their colour is a deep green, with a tinge of 
yellowith. 
The flowers grow in tufts at the tops of the 
branches ; and are yellowifh and fmall. 
It is common in our fouthern counties, flower- 
ing in May, 
C, Bauhine calls it Alchemilla vulgaris. 
2. Cinquefoil Lady’s Mantle. 
Alchemilla Alpina pentaphyllaa. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and branched : 
they are of a filvery white. 
The leaves are placed on long footftalks, five 
on each; and they are of a dark green on the up- 
per fide, and of a filvery white underneath, 
- The flowers are fmall and whitifh. 
We have it on our northern mountains, flower- 
ing in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Tormentilla Alpina folio fe- 
riceo, Others, Alchimilla pentaphyllaa. 
The cup is formed of one leaf: it is of a campanulated fhape, and 
The feed is fingle, and contained in 
3. Parfley Piert. 
Percepier, 
The root is flender, 
The ftalks are weak, whitith, crowded with 
leaves, and three inches high. 
The leaves are broad, fhort, deeply intended 
and of a greyifh green. d 
The flowers ftand in the bofoms of the leaves - 
and are very fmall and whitith. 
It is common in plowed fields, and flowers in 
May. 
C. Bauhine calls [it Cherophyllo non nibil ac- 
cedens. Others, Percepier Anglorum. 
It is 4 powerful diuretick, and good in the 
gravel. 
ges Prickly Glaffwort. 
Kali cochleatum. 
The root is fibrous, 
The ftalks are numerous and branched, brown, 
and eight inches high. 
The leaves are oblong, and of a dufky green, 
and in their bofoms ftand clufters of young ones, 
which are fmaller, and prickly at the ends. 
The flowers are minute and whitifh; and the 
feed is hollow, and twifted. - : 
C.Bauhine calls it Kali fpinofum cochleatum. 
Others, Tragon, and T; ragon Mathioli, 
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