The BRITISH HERBAL. 
DIVISION 11. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
i. Nariovv-leavcd Throatworc. 
'Tyachelium foUis miguftis. 
The root is long, thick, and fpreading. 
The firft leavesi are very large : they arc oblong, 
narrow, icrratcd, imd often curled at the edges : 
they are of a dulky green colour, and have no 
footrtalks. 
The ftalk is round, upright, Hrm, rcdifli, and 
a httle hairy. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and re- 
femble thofe from the root : they are of a pale 
green, and have no fooftalks. 
The flowers are very large and beautiful : their 
moft natural colour is a ftne deep blue, but they 
are fometimes redifh or white : they are deep, 
long, and divided into five fegments at the edge. 
The feed-veflel is large and rough. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Campanula hortsnfis jolio et 
fiore ohlongo. Others, Viola mariana ; and our 
gardeners Coventry bells. 
2. Rough-leaved Threadworc. 
"^rachelmm foliis angujlis fcrratis vtllofis. 
The root is long, thick, white, and furniflied 
with a few fibres. 
The leaves chat rife from it are numerous, ob- 
long, narrow, of a brownifh green, hairy, rough 
to the touch, fliarply ferrated, and without toot- 
ftalks. 
The ftalk rlfcs in the centre, and is round, 
firm, upright, and a foot high^ it is rough to 
the touch, and often redifh. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are not 
very numerous : they are narrow, and have no 
footftalks. 
The flowers are large, of a beautiful blue, and 
hairy at the edge, and ftand on the top of the 
ftalk, and on long, ftender footftalks rifing from 
the bofoms of the upper leaves. 
The feed-velTel is rough and oval. 
It grows in Switzerland, and flowers in June. 
C. HaLihine calls it Ccmpanula folii echii fioribus 
-uillj/is. Others, Trachcliim folv.s echii. 
3. White Throatwort. 
Trr.cbelitim alhidn. 
Several kinds of throaHvort have the flowers 
accidentally white, but thoie of this plant arc na- 
turally ib ; the others are only varieties of the fc- 
veral fpccics to which they belong, but this is 
altogether diftindV. 
The root is long, thick, divided into feveral 
parts, and of a rediih brown. 
The leaves rife in a round tuft : they are 
little, fhort, pointed, and fomewhat hairy. 
The ftalks rife in the centre of thefc : they are 
numerous, upright, ftriatcd, and a foot and a 
half high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and are 
moderately large, oblong, undivided at the edge, 
and hairy. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in 
thick tufts : they are white, moderately large, 
and deeply divided into three fegments. 
The feed-veflel is oval, rough, and divided 
into three cells. 
It is a native of the mountainous parts of 
Switzerland, Germany, and Italy ; and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Campanula alfina ffhicroa- 
phalos. J, Bauhine, Tracbeliiim majiis pelr^um. 
GENUS XIV. 
VENUS' LOOKING-GLASS. 
SPECULUM VENERIS. 
THE flower confifts of a Angle petal divided into five fegments at the edge. The feed-veflel i3 
long, fingle, of a cornered ftiape, and is divided into three cells within. 
LinuEEUS places this among his pentandria monogynia ; the threads of the flower being five, and the 
rudiment of the fruit fingle ; but he joins it, as of the fame genus, with the campanula, from which 
we fee it manifeftly difi?ers in the form of the Iced-vefl^l, as well as in its general afpe<51:. 
DIVISION 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
1. Great Venus' Looking-glafs, 
Speculum Veneris major. 
The rOot is fmall, long, woody, white, and 
furniftied with many fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, very much 
branched, and about feven or eight inches high : 
they do not ftand ercft, but lean and bend. 
The leaves are fhort and broad ; they are of a 
deep green colour, placed irregularly, often, as it 
wefe in pairs in many parts, in others alternately 
and diftant : they are fliarply ferrated at the edges, 
pointed at the ends, and broadeft in the middle j 
and they have no footftalks. 
The flowers ftand on the tops of the ftalks 
and branches ; they are fmall, of a deep purple, 
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