The BRITISH HERBAL. 
The ftalk is naked and flcnder. 
The flowers are large, white, and beautiful. 
The feeds ftand naked in a little round but- 
ton. 
k is common in fhallow waters in the north of 
England, and has been found on the Thames 
Ihore by Lambcch. It flowers in Auguft. 
Plukenet calls it Sagitta aguatica mnlum mi- 
jiima. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
I. Blunt-leaved Arrowhead. 
Sffgiltaria agtiatica foliis cihiufis fruHu farvo. 
The root confifts of a large, irregular lump, 
with a great number of long fibres, 
The leaves ftand on long footftalks, are of the 
arrowhead (hape, but very broad at the bafe, and 
blunt at the end. 
The flowers are large and white. 
The feeds ftand naked in a fmall round clufter. 
It is a native of Afia, and flowers in Auguft. 
Rheede calls it after the Afiatick name, CuUta 
mara. Plukenet, Sagiltarid- foliis planta fruMu 
glomorcito inanopyrene. 
2. Trifoliate Arrowhead. 
Sagittaria foUis ternatis. 
The root confifts of a great number of fibres 
about a fleftiy head. 
The leaves ftand on long, thick, and fpungy 
footftalks, three on each : they are very long, 
narrow, and of a pale green, but of the true ar- 
rowhead rorm. 
The fl:aiks are long, weak, fpungy, obtufely 
nngulated, and naked. 
They are furniflied toward the tops with large 
and beautiful flowers. 
The feeds follow in fmall naked heads. 
It is a native of China and the Eaft Indies,' 
Pctiver calls it Sagittaria Chinmefis foliis ternis 
longijjmis. 
The common arrcivhcad is cooling ; but we 
have no particular account of its virtues; 
GENUS XV. 
WATER PLANTAIN. 
PLANTAGO A i^UAT I CA. 
'TpHE flower is compoicd of i!iree petals, and has a threedeaved cup, which remains aftef 
it is fallen. The feeds ftand together in a little naked head, and their outer covering is 
loofe. 
LinnjEUS places this among the Hexandria polygynia^ and calls it alifma. In this genus he joins 
with it the plant called fiarry headed tsjater plantain which, though commonly called by the fame 
o-eneral name, is properly fcparatcd, as having the feeds fucceeding each flower contained in fix abfo- 
lute caplules ; and the alifma of Dillenius, in which the feeds are contained in numerous fmall 
and obtufe capfules, 
DIVISION 1. BRITISH SPECIES. 
I, Narrow-leaved Water Plantain, 
Plantago aquatica anguftifoUa. 
The root is a great thick tuft of fibres. 
The leaves rife in a large clufl:er, and are very 
long and narrow : they ftand on footftalks of four 
or five inches long ; they are pointed at the 
end, diftinguiflied by three large ribs running 
leno-thwifc, in the manner of the plantain; and 
are of a fine bright green. 
The ftalks riie from the centre of thefe leaves ; 
and are ftender, weak, and a foot high, and have 
no leaves on them. 
The flowers ftand about the tops \ and are 
fmall and white, each compofed of three petals, 
with a few threads in the centre. 
The feeds follow in round, fmall, rough heads. 
It is common in ftanding waters, and flowers 
in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Plantago aquatica angufti- 
foUa. J. Bauhine, Plantago aquatica minor. 
2. Broad-leaved Water Plantain. 
Plantago aquatica latifcUa. 
The root confifl:s of a great tuft of fibres, from' 
which there rife a clufter of ftalks to fupport 
the leaves : the bottoms of thefe being broad 
and clofe compacted, form a kind of round head; 
whence the fibres grow. 
The leaves ftand on thefe footftaiks, which arc 
long, hollowed, weak, and fpungy : they arc 
large, broad, and oblong, blunt at the end, un- 
divided at the edges, and of a fmooth furface, 
and frelh green colour ; with large ribs run- 
ning lengthwife, in the manner of comnion plan- 
tain. 
The ftalk is naked, thick, fmooth, and three, 
feet high : there grow a multitude of branches 
from it in a regular order; fo that it has from 
the middle upwards a kind of conic fliape. 
The flowers fland on the tops of the footftalks 
that rife from fevcral parts of thefe: they are 
fmal 
