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[79] (6.) 



This Plant Flowers in Augujl, and grows in wet 

 Ground; it is about three or four foot in height, having 

 a fquare flender ftalk, chamfered, hollow and tuff, the 

 Leaves grow at certain diftances one againft another, of 

 the colour of Egrimony Leaves fharpe pointed, broadeft 

 in the midft about an Inch and half, and three or four 

 Inches in length, fnipt about the edges like a Nettle Leaf, 

 at the top of the Stalk for four or five Inches thick, fet 

 with pale green husks, out of which the Flowers grow, 

 confifting of one Leaf, fhaped like the head of a Serpent, 

 opening at the top like a mouth, and hollow throughout, 

 containing four crooked pointels, and on the top of every 

 pointel «a fmall, gliftering, green button, covered with a 

 little white woolly matter, by which they are with the 

 pointels fattened clofe together and fhore up the tip " of 

 the upper chap, the crooked pointels are very ftiff and 

 hard, from the bottom of the husks, wherein the Flower 

 ftands, from the top of the Seed Veffel fhoots out a 

 white thread which runs in at the bottom of the Flower, 

 and fo [80] out at the mouth; the whole Flower is milk 

 white, the infide of the chaps reddifh, the Root I did not 

 obferve. 1 



1 Chelone glabra, L. (snake-head). Plukenet quotes this figure under Digi- 

 talis Verbesince foliis, &c. (Amalth., p. 71; Mant., p. 64) ; which is referred by 

 Linnffius to Gerardia pcdicularis, L. Plukenet has himself figured our plant, 

 and but little better than Josselyn, in Phytogr., t. 34S, fig. 3. The genus is pecul- 

 iar to America. 



