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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
at the tops of the ftalks, and at the extremities 
of the divifions of the branches. 
The feed-velTtl is large, oblong, and thick; 
and the feeds arc large and roundifh. 
It is a native of the Eafb, and is there frequent 
in the corn-fields and other cultivated grounds- 
It flowers in September. 
C.Bauhine calls it LeorAofetah afims foli'is qticrm. 
Tournefort, Leontopetalon foliis caft^ f.mpUct in- 
nafcentibus. Others, Chryfogomwi diofcond^s, and 
fimply Chryfogonum. 
The root of the firfl kind is ufed to take 
fpots out of woollen cloths; and it is faid to 
have feme efficacy in medicine as a diuretick. 
The other is not ufed. 
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'TpHE flower is compofed of fix petals, which turn back : the feed-vefiel is large, roundirti, and 
divided into three cells, each of which is a fingle large feed : there is no cup. 
LinnsEus places this among the hexandria trlgynia ; the threads in the flower being fix, and the 
flyles from the rudiment of the fruit three. 
Greenilli-flowered Medeola. 
Medeola fioribus virefcentibus. 
The root is large, thick, and has nwny fibres. 
The firfl leaves are large, long, and undivided : 
they have no footftalks : they are broadeft in the 
middle, and pointed at the end, and undivided 
at the edges. 
The fialk is round, upright, firm, and not at 
all branched. 
The leaves on it are, like thofe from the root, 
broadefl in the middle, oblong, fmall at the bafe, 
pointed at the end, and of a frefh green. 
They are difpofed in a ftellated manner on the 
ftalks, fix or more at a joint, except at the top» 
where there grow two or three irregularly. 
The flowers are fmall and greenifh: they grow 
fingly on flender footftalks at the top of the main 
ftalk, and their petals all turn back: as thefe are 
green and fmall, fome have called them a cup, 
and fay the plant has no flower ; but this is 
erroneous. 
The feed-veflel is fmall, and the feeds arc 
roundifh, but dented at one end. 
It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in July. 
Gronovius calls it Medeola folih jleUatis lanceo- 
lalis. 
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