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Ic is a mtive of Germany and Switzerland, 
and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Samcula Jlpi?ia rotundifolia. 
4. I.ong-Ieavcd Auricula. 
Auricula foliis oblongis integerrimis. 
The root is a bunch of thick fibres, rifing from 
a fmal! oblong head. 
The leaves are numerous, and they rife in a 
thick clufler : they arc long, narrow, fharp- 
pointed, and undivided at the edges : they have 
no footftalks : their colour is a bright glofly green 
on the upper fide, and paler underneath. 
The ftalk rifes in the centre of the tuft, and is 
four inches high. 
The flowers grow in a fn:iall tuft at the top 
often there are but two or three, rarely more than 
five : they are large, and irregularly diviLled into 
fegments, which are deeply cut in, and pointed 
in the divifions : the cup is tubulous and ob- 
tufe. 
It is a native of Switzerland, and flowers in 
May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sanicula Alpina rubrfccns fo- 
lio non ferrato. Others, Auricula longifolia. 
5. Dwarf Auricula. 
Auricula pumila. 
The root is long, flcnder, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The leaves rife in a clufter, and are very fmall : 
they have no footftalks, and they are of a very 
fingular fhape, narroweft at the bottom, broadeft 
at the top, and there deeply indented : the outer 
leaves of thefe little cluilers are fmalleft, and the 
inner ones longeit and largeft, and of the frefiieif 
green. 
The flalks rife among thefe ; and are round, 
ilendcr, fhort, and very minute, like the reft of 
the plant. 
T'hc flowers are large, and very beautiful : 
they are of a fnow-white fometimcs, and fome- 
times they have a blufh of redith. One com- 
monly (lands on each ft^lk. 
The feed-vefiel is oblong, and the feeds are 
very minute. 
It is a native of Germany, and flowers in 
April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sanicula Alpina mimma car- 
nea. Others, Auricula urfi minima. 
GENUS V« 
NAVELWORT. 
ANDROSACE. 
THE flower confifts of a fingle petal, which is tubular, and of an oval form in the lower part^ 
and is divided into five fegments at the edge. 
The feed-vcffcl is a fmgle, round capfule, having only one cell, and opening at the top : the cup 
is formed of one piece, pentangular, and divided into five fegments. 
Liniwu5 placfc.'; this among the pcntandria moiiogynia, the threads in the flower being five, and the 
ffyle from the rudiment of the capfule fingle. 
I. Great Navelwort. 
Androface major. 
The root is long, flender, and has few fibres. 
The leaves rife in a thick tuft ; and arc large, 
oblong, and fharply ferrated : they" have no foot- 
ftalks; they are of a pale green; and they are 
ribbed lengthwife, in the manner of plantain 
leaves. 
In the centre of this tuft rife the ftalks : they 
are numerous, weak, flender, naked, and about 
feven inches high : commonly of a pale green, 
but often purpliih. 
The flowers are fm.dl and white : they (land at 
the tops of the ftalks in little tuffs, after the 
manner of thofe of the cowflip or auricula, eacli 
on its own long fdotftalk. 
The feed-vefiTels follow, and are round and 
large. 
At the top of the ftalk, where the flower-flalks 
rife, there is a fmall clufter of little leaves, which 
may be called a general cup. 
It is common in the corn-fields of Germany, 
and flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Aljtne oficiis androface diSla' 
major. Others, Androface Matbioli 'major. 
2. Hairy Navelwort. 
Androface villofa. 
The root is long, flender, tough, divided in- 
to many parts, and covered with a blackifli bark. 
The leaves rife in round tufts : they are nume- 
rous, very fmall, and. oblong,: they have no 
footftalks : their colour is a pale green, and they 
are very hairy. 
The ftalks rife in the centre of thefe tufts of 
leaves, one ufually from each : they are fmall, flen- 
der, hairy, weak, and about three inches high. 
There are no leaves on thefe, except a few at 
the top, which lorm a kind of general cup 
for the flowers. 
From the fummitof the fl:alk, where the leaves 
grow, rife alfo ten or a dozen fiiort pedicles, each 
fupporting a fingle flower : thefe are large for the 
bignefs of the plant ; and are either white, or of a 
beautiful pale red. 
The feed-veflel is large and round. 
It is a native of the Pyrensan mountains, and 
flowers in fpring. 
Authors have not well known where to place it, 
C. Bauhine calls it Sedum Alpinuni hirfutum lac- 
tcoflore. J. Bauhine, Cb amej a fme Alpina. Others, 
Sedum Alpinum villofum. 
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