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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
The fetd-vtlTel is large and round, and the 
feeds are fmall. 
C. Bauhine ca!!s ic Blattaria purpurea. J. Bau- 
hine, Blattaria fiore cariileofive purpureo. 
2. Red Moth Mullein. 
Biatlaria fore rubente foUis ferraiis. 
The root is long, large," and furnifhcd with 
many fibres. 
The firfl; leaves are numerous large, and fer- 
rated : they are long, moderately broad, and have 
no iootftalks. 
The llalk is round, thick, upright, firm, and 
three feet high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are like 
thofe from the root, long, large, deeply ferrated, 
and fharp-pointed : they have no footflalks, and 
they generally hang downward. 
The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalk in a 
very long and thick fpike, with fome long, nar- 
row leaves intermixed among them : they are 
large, and of a beautiful mixed red, not a bright, 
gaudy colour, but an extreamly pleafing ttnft : 
■when nearly examined there is a mixture of blue 
and of orange, but the red is the predominant 
colour. 
The feed-veflels are large and round. 
It is a native of France, and flowers in Au- 
tumn. 
Morifon calls it Blattaria perennis flore ohfo- 
leti coloris % and others have in general copied the 
fame name. 
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3. Jagged Moth Mullein. 
Blattaria Jolm dijfcclis. 
The root is long, flender, and furniflied with 
many fibres. 
The firfl: leaves are numerous and fmall : they 
rife in a tuft, and fpread on the ground like the 
rays of a ftar : they have no footftalks, and they 
are long, white, hoiry, and deeply divided. 
The ftaiks are numerous, round, flendcr, and 
about ten inches high. 
The leaves ftand thick upon them, and are 
hoary, white, and cut down to the middle rib in 
ftveral places ; fo that they have a pinnated 
afpeft. 
The flowers arc fmall, and the feed-veflels alfo 
fmall, but round. 
Ic is a native of Italy, and flowers in June. 
Bocconc calls it Blattaria imana multijida. O- 
thers copy the fame name. 
The root of the common moth muUciyt is aflringent, 
but in an inferior degree to that of the common 
white mullein. Wc have no account, from any au- 
thentick hand, of the virtues of the other fpecies ; 
but fome of them have an acrid tafte, and feem 
of diff^erent qualities. They are accounted among 
the number of vulnerary plants in Germany ; but 
almoft every thing growing has in fome places 
that charader. 
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WELL. 
N 1 C A. 
THE fluwer confifls of a Angle petal, which is tubular in the lower part, and divided into four 
fegments at the edge ; the fruit is a fmgle capfule, of a turbinated and heartfafhioned fliape, 
comprellcdac the top, and containing two cells : the cup is divided into four parrs, and remains with 
the truit. 
Linnsus places this among his dyandria monogyma ; the threads in the centre of the flower bcino- 
two, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the capfule fingle. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES, 
I. Little fmooth Speedwell. 
Veronica glabra parva. 
The root is compofed of numerous, flender, 
long fibres. 
The ftaiks are weak, round, fmooth, and nu- 
merous: they lie in part upon the ground, and 
in part raife themfelves up : they take root fre- 
quently where they trail upon the ground, and 
thence fend up flioocs that thicken the tuft: the 
part of the ftalk that is eredl is four or five 
inches high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs : they are little, of 
an oval figure, and of a pale but pretty green, 
perfeftly fmooth, and undivided at the edges. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a faint bluilh 
white: they ftand on fhort footftalks rifing from 
the bofoms of the leaves, and run up at the top 
of the ftaiks into a kind of loofe. Irregular 
fpike. 
The feed-vefi'tl is fmall and flat. 
It is a native of every part of Europe, and in 
no country fo frequent as in England ; we have it 
every where by wayTides and in paftures. Ic 
flowers in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Veronica pratenfis ferpyUi- 
folia. Others, Veronica pratenfis minor^ and 
Betonica Pauli ferpyUifoliA. In Englifli it is called 
Smooth fpeedwell, fmooth fuelling and Paul's be- 
tony. 
There may be confufion from the name of 
fluellin, becaufe it is the received Englifli name 
of a very diflerent plant, to be dcfcribcd in its 
place hereatter. 
* 3. Little, 
