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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
From this rife feveral Ilalks together : they are 
ronnd, weak, fiender, and naked, except at the- 
bafe near the ground, where they have fome little 
membranes in the place of leaves. 
The whole plant is not more than four inches 
high 1 and at the top of the ftalk ftands a Tingle 
flower. 
This is large and yellow, though the colour 
varies greatly, for it is fomctimes purplifh or 
blue. 
It is a native of North America, and flowers 
in April. 
Ray talis it Orohanrhe ant hdkboriiie afinis hjg- 
nlandica cmde nudo unico in Jimmtate fore. 
It is a very fingular and very beautiful fpecies. 
GENUS XVI. 
T O O T H W O R T, 
ANB LATUM. 
THE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and approaches to the labiated fliape : the whole is formed 
into a tube, and two lips : the tube is fhort : the upper lip is !or>g and undivided j the lower 
lip is fhorter, but is alfo fi:rait and undivided: thefe Hand gaping open, and are both comprcfl"ed : 
the feed-veflel is roundifh, and pointed : the cup is fwoin, flatted, and divided into four flight feg- 
ments at the edge. 
Lihnsus places this among his didynamia angiofpermia \ the threads in each flower being four, of 
which two are longer, two fliorter, and the feeds contained in a capfule. This author has taken 
away its familiar and ufual name anhlg.liim^ and calls it f^iiamiana. 
This is his conduct in his Genera ; but in that later work his specks FlmUarum^ he has joined it 
with fome others, under the common name lathraa. 
Thefe genera approach very near to one another •, but the difference is fufficient on which to cfta- 
blifh their abfolute diftindlion. There is but one known fpecies o^i anblatum, and that is common 
to Britain and all the north of Europe. 
Toothwort. 
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. . . AnUatum. 
The" root is extreamly Angular in form and 
fubflance : it is thick, white, flefhy, and of a 
fcaly flrruflure, fpreading a great way, and that 
jn a very irregular manner, jufl: under the furface, 
one piece growing fideways from another, and a 
third from that, and fo on in every direftion. 
The flialks are numerous : they rife from va- 
rious parts of the root, but only one from each 
head: they are thick, flefliy, tender, white, or 
brownifli, and fix or feven inches high: the 
fliin is tender, and the internal part full of a 
watery juice. 
There are properly no leaves, but a kind of 
membranes, ftanding irregularly on the fl:alk, in 
the manner of thofe of broomrape. 
The flowers fland in a fliort feries at the top 
of the flalk. 
They are large, and of a faint purple j or 
whitifli, with a purple tinge. 
The feed-veflil is very large, and the feeds are 
numerous and minute. 
It is found under hedges and about the roots 
of trees where the foil is loofe and crumbly, and 
where there is a covering of dead leaves. It is 
not very common, and it is often overlooked. 
It flowers in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Orohn?iche radice dentata 
major. Others, Bentaria majors dentaria mathioH, 
and anUatum. Some, Apyllon. 
It is cooling and aftringent. The root, dried 
and powdered, is to be taken, a dram for a 
dole, and will have great efl^ect. Ic is recom- 
mended againfl: ruptures, and internal bruifes. 
SERIES II. 
Plants of which there is no fpecies native of Britain. 
G E N U S I, 
CLAl^DE^TlBA. 
THE flower confifts of a Angle petal, and approaches to tlie iabiated kind: it is formed into a 
tube and two lips: the tube is oblong, and the lips ftand gaping open, and are of an inflated 
or fwoln ficrure : the upper lip is hollow, and has a crooked point : the lower lip is divided into three 
fmall, blunt fegments, and turns back : the cup is hollow, and divided deeply into four ffgments \ 
and the feed-vefl^el is large, rounded, and terminated by a point. 
8 Linnaeus 
