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SCLERANG HU 5. 
PPHE flower confifts of a cup, formed of a fingle piece, 
containing the filaments and piftil. The feed-veffel is 
two -feeds.. 
, Linnzus places this among the décandria digynia ; 
the flower. 
1. Germen Knoterafs, or Knawel. 
Scleranthus tenuifolius, 
The root is fibrous and white. 
The ftalks are numerous, three inches high, 
and branched. 
The leaves are narrow, oblong, and of a pale 
green. 
The flowers are {mall and whitith; and they 
are placed in the divifions of the branches. 
We have it in dry barren paftures. It flowers 
in June. ; 
C. Bauhine calls it Pohyeonum angupifino folio 
minus, 
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divided into five pointed fegments, and 
of an oval form, very thin, and contains 
3 the filaments being ten; and the ftylés two it 
; 
2. Great-flowered Knawel. 
Scleranthus flore mafore. 
The root is long, Perennial, and full of fibres, 
The ftalks are eight inches high, beautifully 
divided into branches, and a little hoary. 
The leaves are oblong and narrow. 
The flowers are large, and ftand at the tops of 
the branches, and in the bofoms of the leaves, 
We have it in barren paftures. Itflowers in June, 
Ray calls it Knawel incanim Store majore pe 
renines 
The earlier writers were not acquainted with its 
S XXVI 
VER PE CRE ape KNOTGRASS, 
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i Bete flower has no petals. The cup is formed of a fingle’piece, divided into five narrow feg- 
ments, hairy at the ends, and is of a pentangular form, The feed-veffel is roundifh, and the 
feed is large. 
Linneus places this among the pentundria digynia; the flaments being five, and the ftyle, though 
fingle, fplit at the top. 
1. Verticillate Knotgrafs, 
Corrigiola vulgaris. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalks are numerous, and weak, three 
inches long, and of a pale green, 
The leaves are fhort, broad, of a pale green, 
and hairy. 
The flowers are fmall, and white: they are 
placed in clufters round the ftalks, in the-man- 
ner of thofe in the verticillate plants. 
We have it in the weft of England toward 
the fea. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Polgala repens nivea, 
Others, Corrigiola. 
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2. Thick-leaved Verticillate Knotgrafs. 
Corrigiola folio craffo. 
The root is very long and flender. 
The ftalks are wedk, branchéd, of a pale 
green, and four inches high. 
The leaves are fmall, rounded, thick, and of 
a fhining green. 
The flowers are finall and white, 
It is found on our fea coafts, and flowers in 
June. 
Ray calls it Polygonum maritimum longius. radi« 
catum. 
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RUPTUREWORT,! 
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HE flower has no petals. The cup is formed of a fingle piece, divided into five pointed feg's 
ments, which fpread open, The feed-veffel is final, arid temains in the bafe of the cup; and 
the feed is fingle and fmall. 
Rupturewort. 
Hlerniaria vulgaris. 
The root is long and flender. 
The ftalks trail upon the ground, and are three 
or four inches long. 
The leaves are fmall, oblong, broad, and of a 
yellowith green. 
The flowers are very numerous, and greenifh : 
they ftand at the joints with the leaves. 
Tt is common.on our fea-coafts, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Pohganum minus, Seu Mille. 
grana minor. 
It is fometimes lightly hairy, and has been 
confidered in that ftate as a difting fpecies ; but 
this is no more than an accidental variety. 
Tt is an aftringent, but not ufed in medicine, 
Th END of the THIRTY-FIRST CLASS, 
N° 49. 
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