The BRITISH HERBAL. 
GENUS \tt. 
MARSH W H O R T L E. 
O X r C 0 C C U S. 
'yHE flower is rormed of a fingle petai, which is hollowed lilie a bell, dnd is divided at the edgi 
. into four fegments, which turn baclcwards. The cup is extremely fmall, and remains after the 
flower. The fruit is a berry, of a roundifh form, and divided into four cells. The feeds are few 
and minute. 
LinntEus places this among the o^andria monogynia^ the threads in the flower being eight, and the 
flyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. He joins it with the vaccinium ; from which it differs in 
eliential charafters, as we fliall fliew when we come to the fhrubby kinds. 
The mycocCHS is a plant of which there is properly but one known fpecies, and that is a native of 
Britain. 
Marlli Whortle Berry. 
Oxycoccils vii/giirij. 
The root creeps under the furface ; and is long, 
thick, and redifii. 
The Ifalks are numerous and weak : they are 
very flender, of a purpliHi colour, not much 
branclied, and four or five inches long: they 
fupport themfclves at bcft but irregularly ; and, 
when leaded with fruit, always lie upon the 
ground. 
The leaves are fmall, and of a blight green : 
they are broad at the bafe, fliarp-pointed ; and 
they have no footflalks. 
The flowers ffand on long, flender pedicles 
and are of a faint red. 
The berries are longifli, and of a deep red 
when ripe. 
It is found on boggy grounds in Warwickfhire, 
and in fome other places, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Fjijs idea fahtftris. 
The berries are cooling and fubartringent: they 
will flop bloody flools, and they flrengchen the 
ffomach. 
GENUS vni. 
M O S C H A T E L L. 
MOSCHA'TELLINJ. 
'TpHE flower is formed of a fingle petal, and is hollowed, and divided into four or into five feg- 
ments ac the edge. The cup is formed of a fingle piece, and is fplic as it were into two parts. 
The fruic is a round berry, growing between the cup and the flower. The feeds are four, and each 
is held in a feparate cell. The ckillcr of flowers grows in a kind of fquare head. 
LinnLeus places this among the o^amiria folygynia\ the threads in the flower being eight, and 
the fi;yles from the fruit numerous. 
This author takes away the received name of the plant, and calls it adoxa. 
We have in this another inflance of the uncertainty of taking characters iVom the number of threads 
in the flower. We have fhewn this in two plants evidently of the fame genus in the IJerha Paris but 
here we fee it in the flowers of the fame plant. The flower, which grows at the top of the clufter, has 
the number of parts here fiifl named, the fegments being four, and alfo the threads four within ; but 
in all the other flowers on the fame llalk the fegments are five, and ths threads in the fame man- 
ner five. 
Of this, as of the former genus, there is but one known fpecies, and that is a native of Britain. 
T'uberous Mofchatcll. 
MofL-hatelUna tubcroja. 
Tne loot is fmal!, thick, of an irregular fi- 
gure, and pale brown colour. 
The leaves are large, and tliey are fupported 
on long fuQtflalks : they are divided rudely into 
three parts ; and thefe are again notched into 
three ac the ends, where they terminate ob- 
tufely. 
The fl:alks are about three inches hi^h : they 
are flender, whitifli, and weak. 
There ufually grows a fingle leaf on each, and 
that toward the middle : it ib like thofe from the 
root, but fmaller, and of a paler green. 
■ The flowers ftand at the top in a fliorr, thick, 
fquare clufter : they are of a grcenifli colour, with 
a tinge of whitifii and yellowifh. 
The berries are fmall and redifli. 
]t is frequent at the fides of woods in the rotten 
earth that lies under trees. Ic flowers in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Raniinciclui nmorum mofcha- 
tdlina diuius. 
Its virtues are unknown. 
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