The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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It is common in the woods of Sweden and 
feme parts of Germany ; and flowers in July. 
Morifon calls it Pyroh finguhri pre mnpliore. 
Linnsus, Pyrala fiafo unifiore. 
2. Shrubby Wintergreeii. 
Pyrola frttticofa. 
This is th? moft hardy of all the PyroU. 
Its root is long, flender, and woody, and runs 
under the furface, fending up tufts of leaves and 
flalks in many places : thefe, when they have 
rifen to flowering, bend downward with the 
weight of the leaves, and, burying themfelves in 
the "deep mofs among which they ufually grow, 
remain, and become as it were Ihrubby, fending 
up young flioots another year. 
The flralks are green, tender, and weak before 
they take this turn; afterwards they become 
harder, brown, and woody. 
The leaves which rife firfl: are oblong, broad, 
ferrated, of a brownifh green, and without foot- 
ftalks : they only appear, as the firft fhoot, and 
foon decay. 
Thofe on the branches are of the fame form, 
and they ufually ftand thick together ; they are 
narroweft at the bafe, broader toward the end, 
and have no footfl:alks : they are of a pale green, 
and fliarply ferrated. 
I he ftalks terminate in long, naked pedicles, 
which divide into three or four lefTer at the top, 
and on each of thefe ftands a fingle flower: this 
is lar^e, white, and compofed of five fegments, 
uniting at the bafe only i fo that they leem five 
diftinifi: petals. 
The feed-veflel is large, rtiort, and brown. 
Ft is a native of Germany and of many parts 
of Afia and America-, and flowers in Augufl:. 
C. Bauhine calls it Pyrola fruticans arbuti folia. 
Clufius, Pyrola tertia frutefiots. 
3. Broad-leaved Wintergreen. 
Pyrola folio latiore. 
The root is long, flender, woody, brown, and 
fpreading. 
The firfl leaves are few and broad : they 
have fliort footftalks, and are not at all divided 
or ferrated at the edges. 
The flalks are numerous, firm, and round, 
but flender. 
The leaves grow ufually three from the fame 
part of the ftalk, but this not uniformly or cer- 
tainly : fometimes there are two, fometimes only 
one : they are large, broad, and not at a 1 fer- 
rated: they have ihort footftalks; and their co- 
lour is a pale green. 
The flowers are large, beautiful, and white : 
they grow with the fame uncertainty as the leaves, 
fometimes one, fometimes two, and fometimes 
three, on the fame footftalk. 
The feed-veflel is large, ribbed, and deprefled. 
It is common in the woods of North America, 
and flowers in June. 
Gronovius calls it Pyrola petiolis apice iifloris 
vel l}-ifIoris. Petiver, Pyrola niarilandica miflor 
folio mucronato arhuii. 
The virtues of thefe have not been tried, but 
the tafte fhews them to be in general fubaftrin* 
gent, as the cominuu kind. 
GENUS XXV. 
MULLEIN. 
VERBASCUM. 
^^1HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, with a fiiort tubular part at the bottom, and divided deeply 
-•■ into five fegments, which are ufually large and broad : the fru it is a fingle capfule following every 
flower s this is°of a Ihort, turbinated, or conic figure, and contains two cells : the cup is divided 
into five fegments. . „ . , , , 
Linnajus places this among his pentaniria momgynia ; the threads bemg five in each flower, and the 
ftyle rifing from the rudiment of the fruit fingle, 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIE Si 
r. White Mullein. 
Verhafcum album. 
This plant is named white, not from its flow- 
ers, tor they are yellow, but from the fingular 
whitenefs of its leaves. 
The root is long, large, divided, and furniflied 
with a vaft many fibres. 
The firft leaves are very large, numerous, and 
white : they have no footftalks : they are a foot 
and half long, and half as much or nearly in 
breadth. 
The ftalk is firm, thick, upright, hard, and 
covered with leaves. 
Thefe are of the fame fliape and colour with 
thofe at the root, only they are fmaller. 
The flowers ftand in a very long and thick 
fpike at the top of the plant: they are not large, 
but are of a beautiful yellow. 
The feed vcflcl is large and brown. 
It is common by way fides, and flowers in 
July- 
C. Bauhine calls it Verbafcum mas lalifolium k- 
teum. Others, Verbafcum album, and Taffus bar- 
hatus. We call it White mullein, Co'.^s lungwort, 
and in fome places High taper. 
2. Hoary white Mullein. 
Verbafcum puherulcntum album. 
The flowers of this are yellow, as well as thofe 
of the former, and" it obtains its name in the 
fame 
