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or glumes of the corolla^ are two in number, thin 

 acuminated, and about half the length of the 

 calyx. None of the glumes in this fpecies arc 

 bearded, neither is there any triflorous calyx to 

 be found in it, according to the charaders of 

 the genus. 



VALANTIA. Gen.pl IT51, 

 HERMAPHROD. Cal. o. Cor. 4-partita. Stam. 



4. Sty I. 2 -fid us. om. i. 

 MASC. Cal. o. Cor. 3-s. 4-partita. Stam. 4-s. 3. 



Pijiillum obfoletum.i-jjt;^ ■■_■{ 

 VALANTIA floribus mafculis quadrifidis, pedun- 

 culis diphyllis Sp.pl. 1491. (Ger. em. 1123./. 

 J. Moris, hijl. f. 9. ;. 21, /. i. Gruciata birjuta. 

 Pet. herh. t. 30./. i. Blackwel t. 76.) 

 Crofs-wort, or Mu^weed, AngHs. i 

 In bullies, and by wood fides, but not very com- 

 mon. In the king's park at Edinburgh. Dr, 

 Parfons. %. VI. 

 The ftalks are fquare, at firft weak and reclining, 

 afterwards ere£t ; this and the whole plant hairv. 

 The leaves are oval and verticillate, four in a 

 whirl ; each leaf furnillied with three nerves. 

 The flowers are yellow, and grow out of the ajas 

 of the leaves, on (hort branched peduncles, the 

 jiux'i ; males mixed with the hermaphrodites. 

 ■■-^.■•': The plant, particularly Che roots, will dye a red 

 colour. 



