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Plants whofe flowers and feeds are minute and fingly inconfpicuaus, and are 
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leaf. 
Adder’s Tongue. 
Ophioglofum vulgare. 
The plant confifts of a fingle leaf and a fpike. 
The leaf is fupported on a long, green foot- 
ftalk ; and is of an oval form, a flefhy fubftance, 
and a pale green. 
The fpike is green at firft, but as it ripens 
it grows brownifh. 
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HE feeds are arranged in a double ferrated receptacle, rifing ona ftalk from the bafe of the 
It is common in meadows in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Olphioglofum primum feu 
vulgatum. 
The fpike is fometimes fplit, or double: in 
this cafe it has been fuppofed a diftiné&t {pecies. 
The leaves boiled in lard make an excellent 
cooling ointment. 
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MOONWORT. 
LUNARIA. 
*[ HE plant confifts of a fingle leaf, and a ftalk fupporting a clufter of ferrated feed-veffels. 
Moonwort: 
Lunaria racemofa. 
‘The root is fibrous. 
The plant is eight inches high. 
The leaf is beautifully formed of round pinnz; 
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and the ftalk is terminated by a branched clufter 
of brown feed-vefiels. 
We have it in the north of England in dry 
pattures. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lunaria racemofa minor fen 
vulgaris. 
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HERE are hermaphrodite and female flowers upon the fame minute plant: they are formed 
a-like of a rounded cup, which burfts at the fide; and have no petals. In the hermaphrodite 
flowers the rudiment of the fruit fades; and in the female it ripens into a round feed-veffel, with 
a point, containing numerous minute feeds, 
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