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[79] (6.) 
This Plant Flowers in Auguft, 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, 
confuting 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 faftened clofe together and more 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 lb [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 Chclotie glabra, L. (snake-head). Plukenet quotes this figure under Digi- 
talis Verbesince foliis, &c. (Amalth., p. 71; Mant, p. 64); which is referred by 
Linnaeus to Gcrardia fiedicularis, L. Plukenet has himself figured our plant, 
and but little better than Josseljn, in Phytogr., t. 348, fig. 3. The genus is pecul- 
iar to America. 
