382 DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. 



ones are large, oval, flat, color'd, vein'd, and 

 refemble petals, which at length turn greenifli, 

 and remain a defence to the feed-vefTel : the Co- 

 rolla confifts of three petals, folded together, 

 and forming a tube : the carina is terminated 

 with a kind of heart-fhap'd concave appendage, 

 fringed at the extremity. 

 It has a bitter tafte, and has been found to pofTefs 

 much the fame virtues as the POLYGALA ^e- 

 nega^ from America. It purges without danger. 

 It is alfo emetic and diuretic, and fometimes 

 a6ls in the three different ways together. A 

 fpoonful of the deco6tion, made by boiling an 

 ounce of the herb in a pint of water till half is 

 exhaled, has been found ferviceable in pleurifies 

 and fevers, by promoting a diaphorefis and ex- 

 pe<5loration \ and three fpoonfuls of the fame 

 taken once an hour, has proved beneficial in the 

 dropfy and anafarca. It has alfo been found fuc- 

 cefsful in pthificky complaints. 



DECANDRIA. 



SPARTIUM. Gen.pl 858. 

 Stigma longitudinale, fupra villofum. Filamenta 

 germini adhserentia. Cal. deorfum produdlus. 

 fcoparium i SPARTIUM foliis ternatis folitariifque, ramis iner- 

 mibus angulatis. Sp. pi. gg6. (Ger. em. 13 11./. 

 I. Rivin. t, 6^, Blackwell t. 144. Oed. Ban. t. 313. 

 opt.) 



Common 



