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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
It is a native of Curafib, and flowers in Au- 
guft. 
Plukenet calls it Solanum 'veficariim Ciirajjavi- 
cum Solano anti^uonm f.mik, foliis origam fub- 
incanis. 
4. Many-flowered Hoary Winter-Cherry. 
Alkekengi muUifiorum foliis hirfutis. 
The root is long, thick, and furnilhed with a 
few fibres. 
The flalk is round, firm, upright, and two 
feet high : it is of a greyifh colour, and is co- 
vered lightly with a hoary matter. 
The leaves are placed on llender footflalks : 
they are alfo of a greyifh green, hoary, and undi- 
vided at the edges : they are broadctl toward the 
middle, and pointed at the end. 
The Bowers are placed on flender footflalks, 
which rife in great numbers from the bofom of 
every leaf; and they are fmall, and of a faint 
purple. 
The berry is fmall and red, and it is contained 
in a fkinny cup. 
This is accounted poifonous, and is fuppofcd 
to be the true folanum fitmifeniai of the antients ; 
but their defcriptions are fo imperfect, that it is 
hard to determine that matter. 
Alpinus calls it Solanum fomnifermn aniiqtwrum. 
Others, Solanum fomnifsrum verum. 
GENUS VI. 
FRYARSCOWL. 
J R I S A RU M. 
rrPlE flower has no petals. The cup is very Jarge, long, hollow, not upright, as In arum, but 
bending down toward ihe upper part, and fplit : the club within it refembles that of the arunu 
but it is alio bent. The threads of the flower fupport fquare buttons. The berries are numerous^ 
roundifli, and fet in a cluflier. 
Linnaeus places this among thtgynandria polymdrla ; the threads being numerous, and fixed to the 
piftil. But he confounds it with the arum^ making it only a fpecies of that genus ; whereas it evi- 
dently differs generically. 
1. Broad-leaved Arifarum. 
Arifarum latifolium. 
The root is a fmall, roundifli, tuberous lump, 
■with a few fibres at the top. 
The leaves are fupported fingly on long, flen- 
der footfialks \ and tht-y are of a lively green, 
very large, oblong, heart-fafliioned at the bafe 
and pointed at the end. 
The flower rifes on a feparate llaik in the centre 
of the tuft of leaves, and refembles that of the 
common arum i it is a great greenifh cup, purple 
toward the top and at the edges ; and it bends 
down, and fptits at the extremity ; within this is 
feen a purple club, which aifo bends forward. 
The berries are fmail and red. 
Tt is common in Spain and Italy, and flowers 
in June. 
C. Bauhinc calls it Anfarnm latifolium. 
2. Narrow -leaved Arifarum. 
Arifarum angnfli folium. 
The root is a fmall, roundifli lump, brown on 
the outfide, and white within. 
The leaves are long, narrow, and of a frelli 
beautiful green. 
The ftalk rifes among thefe ; and is flender, 
upright, of a pale green, and about ten inches 
high: there generally are wrapped about this the 
remains of the bafes of fome leaves. 
The flower Ihews itfelf in a Angular manner. 
The cup is long and flender ; and the club is alfo 
very long, bent downward, and crooked : its co- 
lour is a duflsy purple ; and it ufually thrufl;s it- 
felf out of the cup in fuch manner as to refemble 
a large earth-worm crawling. 
The berries are round and fmall, green at iirfl:, 
but when ripe of a fine red. 
It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, 
and flowers in June. 
J. Bauhine calls it Arifarum anguftifolium j a 
name mofl: others have followed. 
The roots of thefe are very powerful diureticks ; 
but they are not much ufed except by the pea- 
fan ts. 
GENUS VII. 
DRAGON. 
TiRACONTlUM. 
THE flower has no petals. The cup is large, hollow, and formed of a fingle leaf. In this 
ilands a club, in the fame manner as in the arum ; and the buttons of the flower, and rudi- 
ments of the berries, are at the bottom. The fruit is a clufler of berries, numerous, laro-e, and red. 
The leaves are divided in the manner of fingers. ° 
Linnaeus places this among iVc ^ynandria monogynia, the buttons being numerous, and fixed to the 
piflil. 
This author makes it a fpecies of arum, referving the name dracontium for a diffinft genus, alto- 
gether unlike the plant to which this name has been appropriated ; and comprehending fome fpecies 
ufually called arur/i. The fludent will from this avoid the confufion. 
• 1. Common 
