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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
The firfl: leaves are fmall, but they fpread 
tliemfelves in a regular clufter upon the ground : 
they are oblong, narrow, and of a pale green ; 
and they are of a flelby fubftance, and have no 
footftaiks. 
The ftalks are weak, flender, and fcarce able 
to fupport themfelvcs: they are ulually of a rediOi 
colour toward the top ; iind in the lower part, 
and Ibmetimes nearly all the way up, they are lo 
clofe covered with leaves, that they are fcarce to 
be fecn. 
Thefe leaves are fhort, and of an oval figure: 
they are very Imall, and they Oand clofe over one 
another : they are naturally of a pale green, but 
they often become red. 
The flowers (land at the tops of the (lalks, and 
are moderately large, and of a pale purple, (freaked 
with a deeper red. 
The fecd-velTels are oblong and thick : the 
feeds are very fmall, numerous, and brown. 
It is common in the fouth of France, and in 
Italy, and other warm parts of Europe, and is 
mofl frequently feen in rocky, hilly places. 
C. Bauhine calls it 1 hiafpi parvum Juxatile flore 
ruhentc. Others, Lilbonlhlafpi carnofo folio. 
5. Great Candy-Tuft. 
Tblnfpi umbellniuyn Creticum imjiis. 
The root is long, flendcr, and furniflied with 
nun^erous fibres. 
The firfl: leaves rife in little tufts ; they are ob- 
long, moderately broad, fcrrated at the edges, 
and lliarp-pointed : they have no footftalks, but 
rife from the root with a long narrow bafe, and 
they are of a pale green colour. 
T he flalk grows in the centre of thefe, and is 
round, firm, upright, and of ^a pale green: it 
rifes to a foot or more in height, and is very 
much branched. 
The k-aves that grow on the lower part of the 
ftalk reftmble thofe fi-om the root i but thofe on 
the upper part of it are narrow, long, and not at 
all dividtd at the edges. 
The flowers lUnd at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches ; and are white, or of a pale flefh co- 
lour, or of a deep or purplifh tingci for all thefe 
are only accidental varieties in colour, while the 
plant is the fame in every other refped. 
The feed-velTels are oblong and thick : the 
feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is common in Italy, and in the Greek iflands, 
particularly Crete. 
C. Bauhine calls it ^hlafpi umbellatum Creticum 
iberidis folio. Othersi Wafpt CandU. We have 
it in our gardens as an ornament to borders, and 
call it Great candy lift. 
6. I-ittle Candy Tuft. 
'Thinfpi umbellatum Crelicum minus. 
The root is long, flender, and furniflicd with 
a few fibres. 
The firfl: leaves are oblong, narrow, and of a 
pale green : they have no footftalks, but run up 
with a fmall bafe,. and they are a little ferrated at 
the extremity. 
The fl:alk is round, thick, of a pale green, 
vafl;ly fpread out into branches, and about eight 
inches high. 
The leaves upon this all the way up are like 
thofe from the root : they are long, narrow, and 
ferrated juil about the tip, but in no uther part. 
The flowers grow on the tops of the branches 
in a kind of umbells ; and arc fmall, white, or 
redilh, and RveetTcented. 
The feed-veflTels are oblong, and the feeds are 
numerous, fmall, and brown. 
It is a native of the Greek iflands, and of 
many other warm countries, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Jblafpi mnhellatiai Creti- 
cum fiore albo adoro minHS. 
Some prefer this to the larger kind in gaidcns. 
7. The Rofe of Jericho. 
fblafpi frulicc'fum par-jum floribus alho lirauibus. 
The root is long, (lender, and woody, and is 
hung with a few llraggling fibres. 
The firfl leaves are few, and they very quickly 
wither : they are oblong, fomewhat broad, and 
of a faint green, obtufe at the ends, and in- 
dented bluntly and (lightly at the edges. 
The ftalks are numerous, thick, woody, and 
divided into many branches : they fpread them- 
felvcs circularly on the ground, and rife oniy a 
little from it at tlie points of the branches : they 
are two or three inches in length ; fo that when 
they lie e.-cpanded, the plant forms a circular 
tuft of about half a foot. 
The leaves fland irregularly on thtl'e, and thofe 
toward the lower part of tlie ftalk are like the 
firft from the root, broad, oblong, and indented 
at the edges. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a greenidi white: 
they ft:and on ihoit footftalks in the divifions of 
the branches. 
The fecd-veftils are fmall and Iliort : the feeds 
arc fmall and brown. 
It is a native of the Eaft, and flowers in July. 
After this the leaves fall oft', and the ftalks bend 
inwards till their fops meet ; and the whole plant 
then forms a round lamp of the bignefs of a 
man's (ift, and of a woody fubftance. 
In this ftatc it is brought over frequently as a 
curiofity, and, if laid into a bafon of warm wa- 
ter, it will expand the branches, and fpread itfelf 
out as it grew at firfl. 
C. Bauhine calls it Thlaffi rofa Hieracbnntea 
"■culgo dil^a. Others, Rofa Hierachontca. 
The reafon of its being called a rofe-, is its be- 
ing of the fize, and rudely rcfembling the form 
of one in its dry ftate. 
8. The Candy Tuft Tree. 
Jblafpi fcmpeyvlrens fiorihus imhellalis. 
The root is thick and fpi'eading ; and is fur- 
niflred with many fibres. 
The ftem is hard, woody, and covered with a 
brown bark : it docs not grow to any great height, 
but is divided into a number of branches. 
The leaves grow on thefe in an irregular cluf- 
tered manner, great part of the ftalk being bare, 
and large tufts growing in other places ; Ibmetimes 
from the body of the branches, fometimes fup- 
ported on a kind of footftalks. Each leaf is 
oblong, narrow, and obtufe, not at all indented, 
and of a frelli green. 
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