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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
Smooth Chelone. 
Chllitne felii! glabris. 
The root is long, flender, and furnilhed with 
many fibres. 
The llallis are numerous, round, firm, up- 
right, and confiderably branched. 
The leaves are long, narrow, and beautifully 
ferrated at the edges: they ftand very irregu- 
larly on the ftalks ; thofe toward the bottom al- 
ternately i and thofe toward the top in pairs. 
The flowers are large and white : they ftand in 
fmall clufters at the top of the ftalk and branches, 
and are of a Angular afpc(5t, fhort, thick, hollow, 
and clofe at the mouth. 
The feed-veiTcl is oval, and the feeds are large 
and three-cornered. 
It is a native of North America, and flowers 
in July. 
Tournefort calls it Chelcne acadi^nfis ficre alho, 
Ray, T)igitalis\mariana perfic£ folia \ the larger 
leaves refcmbling thofe of the peach tree. 
GENUS V. 
TRUMPET FLOWER. 
B I G N 0 N 1 A. 
THE flower is made of a Angle petal, and is of the labiated form : it confifts of a tube, a hol- 
low body, and a divided rim : the tube, properly fo called, is very fliort, and reaches no farther 
than the cup : the body is very long and hollow ; and the rim is divided into five parts, two of which 
are turned back -, thefe fl:and upwards, and the other three hang downward, and fpread out ; the 
cup is hollow, and divided into five fcgments at the rim ; and the feed-veflTel is formed in the man- 
ner of a pod. 
LinniBus places this among the didymmin atigufpmnia ; the threads in each flower being four, 
two longer and two fliorter, and the feeds being contained in a caplule. 
1. Ever-green Trumpetflower. 
Bigmn'm femper'virens. 
The root is long, thick, tough, and fpreading. 
The fl:alks are numerous, very long, weak, 
and climbing, but of a woody fubftance. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and have very fliort 
footftalks : they are large, oblong, and confide- 
rably broad, undivided at the edges, and ftiarp- 
pointed. 
The flowers ftand in the bofoms of the leaves, 
and have fliort footftalks ; two ftand together, 
one in the bofom of each leaf of the pair, and 
fo all the way up the ftalk : they are large and 
yellow, and have a very fragrant fmell. 
The feed-vefli:! is of a heart-fafliioned fliape. 
The feeds are winged. 
It is a native of Virginia, and has been called 
by many names. 
Plukenet calls it Syringa volubilis Virginiana, 
myrti majoris folio, alalo femine, fioribus cdaralis 
luteis. Catcftjy, Jafminum luteum edoraium Vir- 
gimamimfimiens Jempervirem. Ray and others 
allow it as a Bigmnin. 
2. Finger-leaved Trumpetflower. 
Bigmma foliis digiiifOf- 
The root is long, fpreading, and full of fibres. 
The ftem is woody, and the bark brown, with 
a tinge of red. 
The leaves are of a very beautiful colour and 
figure : five grow on every footftalk, and are 
difpofed in a digitated manner : three of the five 
ftand forwards, and have long footftalks ; two 
are fliorter and ftand back, and thefe have alfo 
very fliort footftalks : they are of a firm fyb- 
ftance, and their colour is a bright green. 
The flowers are very large, and white. 
The feed-VLlTel is long, in the manner of a 
pod, and when ripe it fpliis at the end. 
It is a native of Jamaica, and grows on tli« 
banks of waters, and in damp places : it flowers 
in July. 
Sir Hans Sloanc has defcribed it under the 
name of Nsrio ajjinis fiU^ucfa , folio palmalo fiore 
alln). 
GENUS VI. 
BEARS BREECH. 
ACANTHUS. 
THE flower confifts of a fingle petal, and approaches in fliape to the labiated kind ; the whole is 
formed into two parts, a tube and a fingle lip. The tube is very fliort: there fee ms an upper 
lip wanting s the lower, which is its only lip, is very long, and divided into four obtufc fegments : 
the cup is 'of a Angular ftruflure, as well as the flower : it confifts of fix leaves ; two are placed 
fideways, oppoflte, and ereft, and thefe are fmall ; two are again placed oppofite, and ftand at top 
and bottom ; thefe are larger ; and there are befide thefe, two other very minute ones, whofe pofitioii 
is alfo fidewlys. The fced-vefli:l is oval. 
LinniEUS places this among the diiynamia angiofpermir. ; the threads m each flower being tot*, two 
longer and two fliorter, and the feeds contained in a capfule. ^ Smooth 
