The BRITISH HERBAL. 
The virtues are probably the fame with thole 
of the others : but it Hands particularly recom- 
mended as a vulnerary. 
Barrilier calls it Caryopkyliata alpina tennui folia 
incana fore htteo longius radkata. C. Bauhine, 
Caryophyilata alpina apii folio. 
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PAS Q_U E F L O W E R. 
PULSAriLLJ. 
^pHE flower confifts of fix petals ; and the feeds are furniflicd with downy threads. There is a kind 
^ of leafy cup which (lands remote, but belongs to the flower. 
This is one of the polyandria poljgynla of Linnsus but it is properly of the fame clafs with the pre- 
cedent : nature has joined it to them by plain charafters, tho' Linnasus feparates it upon fmall varia- 
tions. In this clafs it properly conne6ls the avens and anemone; its feeds being furniflaed with a 
hairy or thready matter, tho' finer and more delicate than that of thofe robufl: plants. 
We fhall only intcrpofe between this and the anemone, a genus- nearly allyed to it, that of 
the clematis, which, tho' very different in the fubftance of the ftalks and manner of growing, yet 
perfectly refembles it in the feathered feeds. 
Linn^Eus, in his Genera Plantarum, allows the pulfatilla to be a dillina genus i but in his Species 
Plantarum, fince publiflied, he makes it only a fpecies of anemone. We fee here a fccond inflrance of 
what was before obfervcd, that the fondncfs for making new diftinflions gets the better of this au- 
thor's earlier knowledge. The particular remote cup, we have mentioned in the charaders of this 
£Tenus, diftin^uiflies it fufficiently, as fuch, from the anemone and this author himfelf once thought 
fo. At prelent, he not only includes this, but among the hepatica alfo, the fpecies of anemone : 
thus, taking away the ufe of thofe anticnt and univerfally received names, and calling the plants by 
that of the anemone, from which they are fufficiently diflinguilTied. 
Of the fpecies of pafq^iieflower there is but one a native of Britain. 
DIVISION I. 
Pafqueflower. 
Pulfatilla. 
The root is large, long, and thick; it is fre- 
quently divided into feveral heads, and they are 
tufted with the remains of decayed footftaiks of 
leaves. The colour is blackifli, and the tafte 
bitter and acrid. 
The leaves ftand on footfi:alks of four Inches 
long, and are beauufully divided into a number 
of fmall parts. Thefe footn:alks are redifli at the 
bottom, hairy, and moderately thick. The 
leaves alfo arc hairy, and of a thick fubftance. 
The flralk is round, hairy, hollow, and weak. 
While it fupporcs the flower it is about fix inches 
in height ; but when that is fallen, it fhoots up 
to a foot. This feems a provifion of nature for 
fcattering of the feeds, the wind having more 
power upon them, as they ftand higher. There 
are no leaves on this (talk except one, which 
we have there called a fort of cup to the flower. 
This ftands always in one certain place, which is 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
a little below the flower ; and is divided into ma- 
ny fmall parts, and is very hairy. This leaf 
furrounds the ftalk at its bafe, and is there of one 
entire piece, its divifions beginning at a little dif- 
tance above. 
The flower ftands on the top of the fl:alk, and 
each ftalk has only one. It is large, purple, hairy 
without, and fmooth within ; and is comppfed 
of fix petals, which are pointed at the ends. It 
has little fmell, but that is very agreeable. In 
the centre ftands a tuft of threads with yellow 
heads, furrounding a button, which afterwards 
becomes tne head of feeds, covered with long, 
filvery hairs. When the plant is in feed the leaf 
which ferved as a cup, ftand on the middle of the 
ftalk; for the ftalk grows in length only in the 
upper part. 
It is found wild on Gogmagog hills in Cam- 
bridgefliire, and in fome parts of Lincolnfliire, 
and Yorkfliire ; and flowers in April. 
J.Bauhine calls it Ptdfatilla purpurea ccrulea. 
C. Bauhine, Pulfatilla folio crnjfore ct tnajore fiore. 
DIVISION II. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
I. Pinnate-leaved Pafqueflower. 
Pulfatilla folzis pimiatis. 
The root is long, black, large, and divided 
into many heads. 
The leaves ftand on footftalks of four inches 
long, and are compofed of feveral pairs of obtufe 
pinnre divided deeply at the edges. They are 
of a firm, hard fubftance, a pale green colour, 
and hairy. 
The ftalk is five inches high, hollow, weak, 
and h.iiry. The flower is remarkably large, and 
ftjii:!. fingle at the top, each ftalk bearing but 
' one. It is compofed of fix long and broad pe- 
tals, and has a great tuft of threads in the centre. 
Under it there ftands fuch a Angular leaf, as in 
the common pafqiufozi^er, forming a kind of cup. 
The flower ftands ere6t ; but is uncertain in 
colour. It is mod ufually of a pale yellow: 
fometimes it is of a deeper yellow, and fome* 
times white. Thefe are lefs remarkable variati- 
ons ; for we fee many flowers changing, according 
to the culture or natural accidents, from a very 
deep colour, through all the gradatiojis of the 
fame colour into white : but what is fingular in 
this, is that the flower is fometimes alfo purple, 
the whole plant remaining in other refpects ex- 
actly the fame. 
