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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
3. Narrow-leaved Navdwort. 
Aiidroface migiijlifo'ia. 
The root is fniall, long, divided, and furnidied 
with a few fibres. 
The leaves are long and narrow : they rife in 
clufters, feveral from one root ; fo that the firfl: 
appearance of the plant is a complicated tuft : 
they are of a pale green, fmooth on the furfacc, 
and undivided at the edges. 
The (talks rife from the centre of thefc tufts, 
and are weak, (lender, and naked ; except that 
they have fometimes a little membrane, fometimes 
two or more, juft where the footftalk of the flower 
fprings. 
The flower is large and white ; fometimes there 
is one grows on a fl:alk, fometimes there are more. 
The feed-vefl'cl is large and round, and the 
feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is a native of the mountainous parts of Au- 
ftria, and flowers in fpring. 
C. Bauhinc calls it Sduin Alphittin gramilieo fo- 
lio laUco ficrc. 
4. Sharp leaved Navelwort. 
Jndrofaa foliis acuminalis. 
The root is long, (lender, fibrous, and black. 
The leaves rife in little clu(l:ers, and fprcad 
themfelves in a round form ; they are narrow, of 
a deep green, fmooth, and (harp pointed : they 
are broadcfl: at the bafe, where they adhere to the 
top of the root ; they thence grow fmaller to the 
point, and they have no footftalks : there rife fe- 
veral long fhoots among thefe clufters of leaves, 
that lie on the ground, and take root as they 
fpread ; and others that raife themfelves up- 
wards. 
The (talk that fupports the flowers is naked 
two or three inches high, and of a whitilh 
green. 
The flowers are large, and of a pale flefh 
colour: they are placed on fhort pedicles, 
eight or ten of which rife from the top of the 
(talk. 
The feed-velTel is round and large : the feeds 
are numerous, and fmall. 
It is a native of Switzerland, and flowers in 
May. 
C. Bauhine calls it, Sedum alpnum angtiftiffum 
folio flore carmo. 
The virtues of thefe plants are unknown. 
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VI. 
MOUNTAIN BINDWEED. 
SOLDANELLA MONTANA. 
rpHE flower confifts of a fingle petal, which is tubular at the bottom, and expanded and divided 
into five deep, narrow, and, as it were, ragged fegments at the edge. 
The feed-vefl-el is long and pointed, and the rup is divided into five fegments. 
LinnKUS places this among the pentandria monogyma ; the threads being five m each flower, and the 
ftvle from the rudiment of the capfule fingle. r x. , u 
The generality of authors have joined it with the common foldanetta; but it dilFcrs from that by 
obvious charaftcrs, and plainly is a plant of its own kind, and of a peculiar genus. ^ 
I have avoided the error of confounding it with the other, but have retained its antient name, that 
it mav be known at once here. r r 7j « . .u- i 
linnTus ftudvin- critical exaftnefs more than utility, gives the name of to this plant 
makin.; the other a fpecics of convolvulus ; and fuch it properly is. While its diftinfl name was 
other plant there could arife no error from that praftice ; but the ftudent will not find 
,his herb the virtues recorded of : he is therefore to know this only with the addition 
of an epithet ; and is to undcrlland flill, that the fingle word foldamlla belongs to the other; not to 
this plant. , , r ■ 
Of this genus there is but one known fpecics. 
alone 
given to no 
Mountain Bindweed. 
Soldnnella. 
This is not the only plant called bindweed, 
which has not a winding ftalk ; the name was 
firft given to fome of the fpecies that had ; and 
afterwards continued to fuch as had not. 
The root of this is long and furni(hcd with 
many fibres : it runs obliquely under the furface, 
and fpreads greatly. 
The leaves rife in a large clufl:er, and Itand on 
long, redifh footftalks : they are fmall, roundifti, 
and fmooth. 
The ftalks rife among thefe, and are round, 
thick, eight inches high, and naked. 
The flowers grow at the tops in a kind of 
tuft, four, five, or more together : they have 
each its own feparate footftalk, and fpread out 
in the manner of cowflips. 
The feed-vcflels are large and long, and the 
feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is a native of the Pyrenxan mountains. 
Its virtues are not known. 
GENUS 
