The BRITISH HKRBAL. 
the bolbms of the leaves are collefted for life in 
Germany. Hence came the miftake of calling the 
bulbs of the root feeds, thefe having been firft 
called by that name, and from their fituation 
much more naturally than thofe at the root. 
Jc is not peculiar to this plant to produce 
thefe particular parts : the toothwort, to be de- 
fcribed hereafter, and feveral others, do the 
lame. 
GENUS III. 
KIDNEYWORT. 
G E U M. 
THE flower confifts of five petals, narrow at the bafe, and broadefl at the extremity : the leed- 
velTel is oval, and terminates in a divided top ; the cup is compoled of five little leaves, and 
remains with the feed-vefTel, though feparate and detached from it. 
Linnaeus places this genus among the decandria digynia, joining it under one common name with 
faxifrage. 1 have (hewn, in the charadler of the preceding genus, how abfolutely and eflentially they 
differ in the ftrutture of the cup. 
DIVISION I. 
I. Hairy Kidneywort. 
Gewn hirfutum. 
The root is long, (lender, and has a few fibres. 
The leaves rife in a fmall tuft, and ftand pretty 
upright : they have no footftalks ; and they are 
oblong, moderately broad, fliarp-pointed, dented 
at the edges, of a pale green colour, and hairy. 
The ftalk rifes in the midft of thefe, and it is 
fmall, naked, fiender, and four inches high. 
The flowers fl:and at the top, on long, Gender 
Footftalks, and fpread themfelves into a kind of 
umbel : they are fmall and white. 
The feed-vefiel is fmall, and the feeds are nu- 
merous and brown. 
It is found on the Welch mountains, and in 
fome of the northern parts of England, and 
flowers in April. 
Ray calls it Gemi pahijire minus folns oblongis 
crenatis. 
2. Narrow-leaved yellow Kidneywort. 
Geum angiijtifoiium luteo flare. 
The root is a ckifter of flender, but tough fibres. 
The leaves rife from it in a tuft and they are 
oblong, narrow, and fmooth : they are of a flefhy 
fubftance, and pale green colour. 
The fl:alk rifes in the center of thefe, and is 
round, flender, upright, and of a pale green, of- 
ten redilh. 
The flowers are very beautiful : they are com- 
pofed of five yellow petals, pointed, and beauti- 
fully dotted with orange-colour. 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
The feed-veflel is divided into two parts at the 
top, and the feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is found on the hills in our northern coun- 
ties, and flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Gmm anguflifolium autiimnaU ficre 
luteo guttalo. 
3. London Pride; 
Gciwi foliis fubrotundis crenatis. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. 
The leaves rife in a tuft, and are of a roundifli 
figure, dented abgut the edges, and of a pale 
green. 
The ftalk rifes in the midft of a regular and 
beautiful tuft of thefe, and is round, flender, re- 
difli, naked, and a foot high. 
The flowers ftand in great numbers on branches 
fent out from the upper part of the ftalk, and 
they are fmall, but, when examined nearly, very- 
beautiful : they are Tpotted in a moft elegant 
manner with crimfon. 
The leed-vefl"cl is fmall, and terminates in a 
double point, and the feeds are minute and nu- 
merous. 
It is wild on the mountains of Ireland ; whence 
it has been brought into our gardens. It flowers 
in July. 
Ray calls it Geum folio fubrotundo majori pifiilh 
floris rubra. We, London Pride^ or None fo 
pretty. 
DIVISION II. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
I. Long-leaved Kidneywort. 
Geum longifolium. 
This is a mofl: elegant plant. 
The root is long, flender, and furniflied with 
a few fibres. 
The leaves are numerous, and very beautiful : 
they are long, narrow, and rounded at the ends : 
they are of a pale green, and they have a thin 
filvery edge of a cartilaginous fubftance all round 
them, which is beaucifully ferrated : they lie fpread 
in a circular manner on the ground, and the ftalk. 
rifes in the centre. 
This is round, firm, upright, and of a pale 
green. 
There are generally two or three leaves upon 
it of the fame fhape with thofe from the root, 
and they ftand irregularly, and at great diftances. 
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