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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
DIVISION IL FOREIGN SPECIES. 
I. Yellow, trifoliate Toadflax. 
Linaria irijoUata Jla-va. 
The root is long, flender, whicini, and f-Jf- 
niQied with numerous fibres. 
The ftalUs are Qender, upright, numerous, 
and a foot and half high : they are of a pale yel- 
lowiHi green, and ufually run up finglc, without 
any divifions into branches. 
The iL-aves are numerous, broad, iliort, of a 
dulliy. green, and they have no footualks. 
They grow irregularly, but mod frequently 
three from one place : from this it obtained the 
name of trifoliate toadjiax but tho' mofl of the 
leaves grow in this manner : there are frequently 
fome that fland in pairs, and commonly a good 
number that grow fingly toward the top of the 
ftaik. 
The flowers are large and beautiful: they are 
of a mixt yellow, and have long, i"harp fpurs. 
The feed-veffel is round, and the feed is 
bhckifli. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauh'ine calls it Linaria triphyllos minor lu- 
Ha. Others, from Clufius, Linarea valentina. 
2. Four-leaved Toadflax. 
Lin.'iTia quadr'ifoUa. 
The root is fitiali, long, whitlfh, and divided : 
it has many fibres, and partly by chem, partly 
by its own divifions, fpreads a great way under 
the fur face. 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, w-eak, and 
a foot long. 
They lie in partupon the ground, and in part raife 
themfelves, but feebly and in an irregular manner. 
The leaves are numerous, and placed with 
great regularity : four rife from tlie fame fpot all 
the way up the flalk, and thefe feveral fours are 
kept at p-retty large diftances. 
The leaves are feparately longiQi, narrow, un- 
divided at the edges, Iharp at the points, without 
ibotftaiks, and of a pale green. 
The flowers are large and of a pale yellow, 
nnd they ftand in clullers at the tops of the 
ftalks. 
The feed-veffel is large and rounded i and the 
feeds are finall and bla k. 
It is a native of Spain, Italy, and Germany, 
and fpreads at random over a great deal of their 
dry, barren grounds. It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calh it Linaria quadrifolia lutea. 
Columna, Linaria tetraphylla luUa minar. We, 
Four-leaved toadflax. 
3. l,ow, purple Toadnax. 
Linaria purpurea procumhe}is. 
The root is compofed of a multitude of thick, 
.irregular, white, and woody fibres: they rife 
from a fmall head, and fpread themfelves far un=. 
der the furface. 
The ftalks are very numt-rou.s twenty or more 
rif:ng from the fame head of the root : they are 
round, flender, weak, and of a pale colour: 
they lie fpread upon the ground about a third 
part of their length, and rife irregularly up the 
reft. 
The leaves are very fmall, and very numerous: 
they ftand thick, and pcrfedly irregularly upon 
the ftalks, and are ol" a bluifli green : they have 
no footftalks, and they arc undivided at the 
edges, narrow, aud pointed at the ends. 
The flowers ftand in long and thick fpikes at 
the tops of the ftalks and branches, and are of 
a deep purple : they are fmall, but very pretty 
fometimes they are paler and reder, fomerimes 
perfedlly blue ; but their moll conftant and natu- 
ral colour is purple. 
The feed-veffels are fmall, and the feeds are 
very fmall and black. 
It is a native of Spain and of fome parts of 
Germany ; and flowers in Auguft. It is moftly 
found on hills near fprings. 
C. Bauhine calls it Linaria c^ruka repens. O- 
thers, Linaria purpurea^ and Ofyris purpura c^- 
ridea npens. 
4, Stellated Toad^ax. 
Stellalis fcliis fiellatis. 
The root is very flender, divided, and fur- 
niflied with fmall fibres. 
The ftalks are flender, weak, and of a pale 
green, fometimes redifli : they ftand but weakly 
I upright, and fcldom arc ftrait \ and there general- 
ly lie feveral others about the root, which fpread 
on the ground, and are fuller of leaves, though 
they bear no flowers. 
The leaves are iongifii, narrow, undivided at 
the edges, pointed at the ends, and of a pale alh 
coloured green : they grow round the ftalks, i.i 
the manner of thofe of the iL^llate plants, like 
the rowels of a fpur, or the rays of a ftar, as 
they are commonly reprefcnted. 
Inhere are ufually five principal leaves at a 
joint, and often fome fmall ones from their bo- 
foms. 
Toward the tops of the principal ftalks which 
bear the flowers they grow with lefs regularity, 
often fingly, and fometimes they are in this part 
irregularly divided. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in 
long, thick fpikes : they are yellow, and like 
thofe of tliC common toadflax^ only fmaller. 
The feed- veflel is large and round, the feeds 
are fmall and brown. 
It is a native of Sicily, and flowers in July. 
Boccone calls it Linaria ficula mullicaulismollH.' 
ginis folio. Others, Linaria fclUs quinism or ^oad- 
fiax wit/j leaves five at a joint. 
5. Purple-mouthed Toadflax. 
Linaria fiore abefcente riStu purpurea. 
The root i-. long, flender, white, hard, and 
hung with numerous fibres. 
The ftalks arc round, thick, firm, upright, 
but little branched, and two tect high. 
The leaves arc numerous, and ftand irregularly 
on theftalk; they are long and narrow, refembling 
that 
