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tl-.:i\'ir.;5 very well among huflies, but it is not a 
n.;c;vc. The dead ftalks have beL'n thrown out 
oi lume adjacent garden, and the tubercles irom 
tl.a lc;ives have fiirnifhed thefe plants. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ventaria heptaphyllos bacci- 
fern,, Berry-hearing /even leaved tootbvjort. He 
gives the name herries to thole tubercles juft 
named ; but they are not properly fuch. A "berry | 
is a regular truit lucceeding a flower : thcfe are' 
a kind of iuckers ; no flower has flood in the, 
place. 
3. Five-lcaved Toothwort. 
Dentaria penta-phyll^a. 
The root is long, thick, of an irregular form, 
and lies obliquely at a imall depth under the I'ur- 
face : the firft leaves are fupporced on long, Oen- 
der footftalks : they are placed five on eachj and 
they are not difpofcd in the pinnated manner,, 
but fprcad out like fingers. They are oblong, 
narrow, fharp-pointed, ferrated at the edges, and 
of a n;rong and plcafant green. 
The Italk is flender, upright, green or redifh, 
and a foot high. 
The leaves fliand irregularly, and are perfectly 
like thofc from the root, five placed on each 
footftalk, narrow, long, and ferrated. 
The flowers are large, and of a beautiful pale 
purple i in fhape and colour they very much re- 
femble thofe of the common hefperis, which our 
gardeners call Angle rocket. 
The feed-velTel is long and flender, and the 
feeds are numerous, fmall, and round. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Dentaria ■pentaphyllos, and 
mofl: others copy that name. When this grows 
in loofe ground very much fliaded, the root be- 
comes more fcaly, and the leaves are of a paler 
green, and are foft to the touch. In this ftate it 
has been defcribed by Clufius under the name of 
Dentaria pentaphyllos altera^ as if a diftincl fpecies; 
but thefe errors the fl:udent mufl carefully avoid. 
4. Sing'e-Ieaved Toothwort. 
Dentaria foliis fimplicibus. 
The root is thick, and of an irregular figure, 
and runs obliquely under the furface. 
1 iie firfl: .'^aves are oblong, narrow, i:p.divided, 
and of a pale green : they have fliurt fuotlialks, 
and rife in little tufts. 
The ftalk is round, flender, upright, and of a 
pale green : it is not at all branched, and is a foot 
and a half high. 
The leaves are phiccd alternately on it from the 
bottom to the top, and they refemble thofe from 
the root : they have ihort footftalks ; and tHty 
arc long, narrow, fiiarp-pointcd, a little undu- 
lated at the edges, and of a pale green. 
The flowers ftand in a fliort fpike at the top of 
thefl:alk; and as the top ufually droops, they 
commonly hang all on one fide: they are large 
and white, with a faincer or deper blufii of 
purple. 
The feed-vefici is long and flender, and the 
feeds are large and round. 
It is common in the Harts forefl: in Germany, 
and flowers in Augufl:. 
C. Bauhine calls ic Dentaria baccifcra foiiis 
ptarmiciC. 
There are frequently tubercles like thofe of the 
feven-leaved kind in the bofoms of the leaves of 
this fpecies i and when they are numerous, and 
fwell kindly, the flower often falls without any 
fuccecding feed-vefTel, Nature contenting herfelf 
with this method of encreafing and continuing 
the fpecies. 
The fcven-kaved tooth-uoort is accounted a good 
vulnerary; but this feems an opinion not well 
founded. The tafte is acrid, and almofl cauflic. 
Probably a confufion of names between this 
plant, &T\d, ccral toothwort has occafioned the 
opinion. 
Linnseus accounts the ftngle-kaved toothwort 
to be only a variety of the feven-leaved kind 
fome of the leaves toward the top of which are 
often Angle : but the latefl: obfervations fhew the 
leaves of this are fingle from the root ; fo that it 
is altogether a diflinft fpecies. And indeed the 
whole afpecT: of the plant fpeaks it. There has 
been alfo much confufion about the buibiferous 
kind, fome defcribing one fpecies, and others 
another for it ; but this is owing to the uncer- 
tainty of the bulbs or tubercles appearing, for ihey 
are not confl:anc in all the plants. 
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rpHE flower Compo^d of four petals, regularly difpofed crofs-ways : they are of an oval, ob- 
tule form and have fmall bottoms of the length of the cup. The cup is compofed of four 
],tt le leaves ; two of thefe are very .arrow, and ftand eredl , the other two are broader, and thick 
at the baij., and of an oval fl^ape, but fharp-pointed and hollow. The feed-vefTel is very lon^., flatted, 
and fwelhng where the feeds he : thefe arc numerous, and of a rounded form, but fomewh^ flatted 
Lmn^EUs places this among the the threads in the flower beina fix, of which 
four are longer than the other two, and the feed-vefl^el being a regular pod. But^ he introduces 
among the plants riehtly belonoinp; to it fome that mnrr nrn„>rl„ 1 ■ u • , 
Mr J 1 u , , properly clami their place m other ge- 
nera. We have endeavoured here to p ace them as Nature direfts 
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