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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
Alllecd. 
Rcidiola, 
The root is fmall, and furnidicd with 
fibr< 
many 
The ftall; is round, and divided into a vad 
multitude of branches. Tlie whole plar.t is not 
more than an inch high. 
The leaves fland in pairs, and they are of a 
dufky green, fhort, and broad. 
The flowers are very fmall, and white; and 
they ftand in clufters at the tops of the branches. 
The feed-veffels are large and brown ; and the 
feeds minute. 
It is not uncommon on heaths, and flowers in 
J"iy. 
Ray calls it Radiola vulgaris ftrp^-lUfelia. O- 
thers, Hermria minmm. 
SERIES 
11. 
Foreign Genera. 
Thofe of which there is no fpecies native of this country. 
GENUS I. 
BARRENWORT. 
E P E M E D I U M 
THE flower is formed of four petals, regularly difpofed: the feed-veflil is long flender 
pomted at the end, and made of two valves, containing numerous feeds in a finale cell" 
the cup IS compofed of four leaves, and falls with the flower. ° 
Linn.-eus places this among the Mra„Jria momsyma ; the threads in the centre of the flower beine 
Jour, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. 
pi this genus there is but one known fpecies. 
Barrenwort. 
Epimedium. 
The root is (lender and creeping, and is hung 
about with numerous fibres. 
The firfl: leaves ftand on long, flender, and 
divided footftalks, and there arc ufually tiiree on 
each divifion. 
They are heart-fafliioned, deeply cut in at the 
bafe, and thence fmailer to the extremity ; and 
are very lharply ferratcd round the edges. 
The ftalk rifes among thefe, and is round, 
firm, upright, not at all branched, and a foot 
high. 
There ufually ftands one of thefe compound 
leaves upon it, conlifting of five fingle ones, 
each on its own feparate footftalk ; and thefe arc, 
like thofe from the root, heart-fafliioned, ferrated, 
and pointed. ' 
The flowers ftand at the top of the fl:alk in a 
kind of fpike, and each has its feparate, flender 
footftalk: they are of a deep purple, with an 
edge of yellow, 
The feed-veflil is long and flender, and the 
feeds are oblong and fmall. 
It is a native of many of the northern parts of 
Eiirope, and lives in the damp parts of forefts. 
It flowers in Auguft. 
All authors call it Epimedium; the plant being 
fo Angular that it needs no diftinftive epithets. 
It has been faid to be a native of this king- 
dom, but not truly. 
Its virtues 
are not certainly known. 
G E N U e II. 
PODDED CUMMIN. 
H r P E C 0 U M. 
THE flower is compofed of four petals of unequal fize : two of thefe are larger, and divided 
<- n '''. JJ'^/^'n'fr'-' ^"V^^'''"'''""''"""™''^'^^^ ^™ ft^nd inwards, and are 
fmall and dmdedfl,ghtly .nto three parts at the top; the middle fegment being hollowed, com- 
prefl-ed and creel : the feed-vefl-cl ,s long, crooked, and jointed: the cup is compofed of two little 
leaves, and falls with the flower. ^ 
Linn^us places this among At telrmdria digynia ; th, threads in the centre of the flower bein.^ 
tour, and the Ityles from the rudiment of the fruit two. ° 
I. Comnftj: 
