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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
I'he flowers are large, b;.'autiful, and fiiow 
white : they grow in a tiifc at the top ol the 
llalk. 
The rccd-vefl'el is fmall, and ends in two 
poincs. 
It is full of fmail brown feeds. 
It is a native of the mountains in Germany, 
and flowers in July. 
Mcrifon calls it Sedum ferratum altum hriorne 
marginibus argenteis. 
2. Kidneywortj with white dotted flowers. 
Geiwi fioribus alhis punfiatis foliis ferratis. 
The root is compofed of a few flender, but 
very long and tough fibres, rifing from a fmall 
head. 
The leaves fpread thcmfelves upon the ground 
in little tufts : they are oblong, broad, and very 
deeply ferrated : they are narrow at the bafe, 
broad toward the other end, and terminate in a 
fharp point. 
The Italic rifes in the centre, and is round, firm, 
upright, and a little hairy, as are alfo the leaves. 
There are no leaves on the flalk. 
The flowers are fmall, but very beautiful : 
they ftand in a little tuft at the cop of the ftalk, 
and are of a fnow white, beautifully fpotted. 
The feed-vefiri is oval, and has a double poirt. 
The feeds are very fmall. 
It is a native of Switzerland, and flowers in 
April. 
Plukenet calls it Suniada myofotis flcrilncs alhi- 
ciuilibus fire umhdlalis. 
3, Kidneywort, with tufted flowers. 
Gum fioribus faj'ciculatis . 
The root is compofed of a number of black 
fibres. 
The leaves rife in a tuft, and arc oblong, broad, 
of a pale green, and ferrated at the edgLS. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and of a redifli , 
colour, and is in a manner naked : there are no 
leaves on its lower part, and only a few rudiments 
of leaves where the branches rife that bear the 
flowers. 
Thcfe are fmall, white, and clufi:ered in little 
tufts at the ends of the feveral branches that grow 
from the upper part of the ftalk. 
The feed-velTel is oval, and fpllt at the end 
into two parts, and the feeds are irnali. 
It is a native of North America, and flowers 
in AugLifl. 
Plukenet calls it Sanicula VirginiaHa aiba folio 
oblongo nuceronato. 
G E N U S IV. 
GRASS or PARNASSUS. 
FARNASSIA. 
THE flower conflfts of five petals, which are broad, and regularly fpread open : the feed-veflel 
is of an oval fliape, but marked with four flight ridges, and is compofed of four valves : the 
cup is formed of a fingle piece, divided into five long fcgments, and remains when the flower is fallen. 
Linnfcus places this among the fentandria tetragynia ; the threads fufliaining the buttons in the 
flower being five, and the ftigmata rifing from the rudiment of the fruit four. 
The ufual name of the genus was gramen Parnaji; and this Linnsus has very judicioufly fet afidc, 
reducin*^ it, after C. Bauhine, to one word, Parnajfm ; the word gra'/nen having no alliance with the 
nature of the plant. Of this genus there is but one known fpecies, and that is a native of Britain, 
as well as mod parts of Europe. 
Grafs of Parnafius. 
Parnajfm. 
The root confifl;s of a finall head, and an in- 
numerable quantity of long and flender fibres. 
The leaves are numerous, and extremely beau- 
tiful i each has its long, flender footftalk, and the 
(hape is heart-fafliioned : .they rife pretty upright 
in a large tuft, and are of a deep green. 
The (talks are numerous, flender, round, up- 
right, and a foot high. 
Each has only a fingle leaf upon it, and fuftains 
a fingle flower. 
The leaf grows about the middle of the flialk, 
and furrounds it at the bafe : its fliape is the fame 
with that of thole from the root, but it has no 
footftalk. . . 
The flower is very large and beautitul : it is 
white, and elegantly ftriated ; and there are a 
multitude of filaments, no lefs than fixty-three in 
all befide the proper threads, which are only 
five : thcfe are a great addition to the beauty of 
the flower. 
They rife from certain glandules in the lower 
part of the flower : there is one on each petal, 
and it is hollow, and heart-fafhioncd ; and from 
this there rife thirteen of thefe threads taller as 
they proceed up the margin, and each havin" 
its top terminated by a little globe. 
Thefe glands Linnajus calls the mBaria, and 
makes the efiential character of the genus : they 
are, indeed, extremely Angular, as well as beau- 
tiful. 
The feed-vefTcl is oval, and edged in four 
places ; and the feeds are fmall and oval. 
It is found on boggy ground in many parts of 
the kingdom, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Parnajfm fiore alho Jtmplici. 
Others, G-ramen Parnaffi vulgare, and Gramcn 
Parnajfi minus. The flower is fometimes natu- 
rally double. 
The virtues of this plant have not been tried ; 
but the farmers think it hurts their flreep. 
GENUS 
