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they will require no other Care but 

 to keep them clean from Weeds ; 

 and at Michaelmas the Plants mould 

 be removed where they are defign'd 

 to remain ; but it will be proper to 

 put a Plant of each Sort in Pots, that 

 they may be fneltered in Winter, to 

 preferve the Kinds. 



The fecond and fixth Sorts are 

 fometimes ufed in Medicine. 



POLYANTHUS. Vide Primu- 

 la. 



POLYGALA, Milkwort. 

 The Char after s are ; 



// hath a Flower con fifing of we 

 Leaf, of an anomalous Figure, per- 

 forated behind, but divided into two 

 L'ps before : the upper mojl L'p is di- 

 vided into tivo Parts ; but the under 

 one is eurioufy fringed: out of the 

 lower Part cf the Floxver rifes the 

 Pointer/, tvhich afterward becomes a 

 broad Fruit , divided into two Cells, 

 which contain oblong Speeds : the Fruit 

 is generally inch. rV hi the Flower- 

 cup, which is composed of five Leaves', 

 viz. three fmall ones, and tivo larger, 

 itvhieh afterward embrace the Fruit 

 like Wings. 



The Species are ; 



1 . Poly gala major caerulea. 7a- 

 hern. Greater blue Milkwort. 



2. Polygala m:jor alba. Tabern. 

 Greater white Milkwort. 



3. Poly gala vulgaris. C. B. P 

 Common Milkwort, with a blue 

 Flower. 



4. Polygala alba. Tabern. White 

 common Milkwort. 



5. Polygala montana minima 

 mv 'tifolia. hji. R H. The hail 

 mountain Milkwort, with a Myrtle- 

 leaf. 



6. Poltgala C ret tea vulgari fi- 

 tnJlis, fl.'re albido lonpiore. Tourn. Cor. 

 Milkwort of Crete, like the common 

 Sort, with a longer whitifli Flower. 



7. Polygala Orient 'a lis fujiua 



myrti folia, fore carruleo. 7ourn. Cor. 

 Low Ealtern Milkwort, with a Myr- 

 tle-leaf, and a blue Flower. 



8. Polygala Orient a lis lim folia, 

 f ore magno aibo. Toum. Cor. Eaftern 

 Milkwort, with a Flax-leaf, and 3 

 large white Flower. 



9. Polygala Orient alis liniflia, 

 fore magno purpureo. Tcum.Cor. Eaft- 

 ern Milkwort, with a Flax-leaf r 

 and a large purple Flower. 



10. Polygala Luftaniea frute- 

 fcens, magna fore, foliis minimis. Injt. 

 R. H. Shrubby Portugal Milkwort, 

 with a large Flower, and very fmall 

 Leaves. 



It, Polygala Africana fute* 

 fcens angufii folia major. 01 denl. Great- 

 er flirubby African Milkwort, with 

 a narrow Leaf. 



12. Polygala Africana, lini fo- 

 lio, magno fore, Oldenl. African 

 Milkwort, with a Flax-leaf, and a 

 large Flower. 



13. Polygala Virginiana, folii* 

 oblongis, floribus in thvrfo candidis, 

 radice alexipharmica. Milkwort of 

 Virginia, with obiong Leaves, and 

 white Flowers, growing in a loofe 

 Spike, whofe Root is alexipharmac ; 

 commonly called the Senegaw Rat- 

 tle -fnake-root. 



14. Polygala caerulea America- 

 na, angufis iff denfioribus foliis, vul- 

 go Clin-clin. Feuillee. Blue Ameri- 

 can Milk wort, with narrow Leaves ; 

 commonly called by the Indians Clin- 

 clin. 



15. Polygala rubra V irginiana, 

 fpica parva compacla. Baniji. Red 



Virginian Milkwort, with a fmall 

 compact Spike. 



16. Polygala fpicat a rubra ma- 

 jor, foliis iff caulibus caerulefcentibus. 



BamJL Greater red fpiked Milk- 

 wort, with bluifii Leaves and Stalks. 



1.7. Polygala f Flos amharvalis- 

 V irginiana, flvi ibus lutcis in caput ob- 



longum 



