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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Fine-leaved Sea-Lavender, 
Limoniuni Joins tcnw.jjimis. 
The root is long, flender, and furnilhed with 
a few fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a thick tuft ; and they 
are long, very flender, and grafly : fometimes 
they are divided, but ufually quite fimple. 
The ftalk. is round, upright, and of a pale 
green : it divides toward the top into a vaft num- 
ber of branches. 
The leaves on this are very fmall, oblong, and 
compofed of a very few flender fegments. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in 
fliort clufters, and are of a pale red. 
The feeds are fmall, Angle, and naked. 
It is a native of thecoaft of Africa, and flowers 
in June. 
Plukenet calls it hmomum 7mn'mum comatim 
ekgans. 
GENUS IV. 
BASTARD TOADFLAX. 
T H E S I U M. 
THE flower has no petals. The cup is formed of a fingle piece, lightly divided into five obtufe 
fegments; which ftand upright, and are coloured on the inner fide : fome have called them, 
but erroneoufly, The feed is fingle, roundifli, and naked: it remains in the bofom of the cup, 
Linn^us places this among ilio. pent andri a monogyiiia; the threads in the flower being five, and the 
ftyle fingle. 
He takes away its old name Unaria ahlterina^ and calls it the/mm. The other muft be acknow- 
ledged a very ill conftrudted generlcal term. 
DIVISION L BRITISH SPECIES. 
Commnn Raflard ToaHflax- 
^hcfium 1-uIgare. 
The root is long, thick, divided, and furniflied 
with numerous fibres. 
The firfl leaves rife in a tuft; and are oblong, 
narrow, fliarp-poinrcd, and undivided at the 
edges ; their colour is a pale green, and they 
have no footftalks. 
The ftalks are roundifli, upright, brown, and 
a foot high : they are not much branched, and 
they generally grow many together. 
The leaves are numerous, and placed irregu- 
larly : they are long, narrow, and fliarp-pointed : 
they have no footftalks ; they are undivided at 
the edges, and of a pale green. 
The flowers ftand in great number at the tops 
of the ftalks in a kind of fpikes ; and they look 
white, the infide of the cup being of that colour. 
The feed is fingle and large. 
It is common on fome hilly grounds, and 
flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Linaria montana fiofcnUs al- 
hicanlibus. Others, Alfme linarlc folio., and Li- 
nophyllo72. 
We have an inftance in this plant how very 
carelefsly the old writers impofed names. There 
is no refemblance of linnria in the flower of this 
plant. The leaves and manner of growing were 
the occafion of the title. 
Its virtues are unknown. 
DIVISION IL FOREIGN SPECIES. 
I, Yellow-flowered Baftard Toadflax. 
The/mm fiore jiavo. 
The root is long, thick, brown, and furniflied 
with many fibres. 
The ftalk is round, upright, flender, and ten 
inches high. 
The leaves ftand alternately ; and they are ob- 
long and broad, of a pale green, undivided at the 
edges, and obtufe at the end. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 
in fmall clufters about five together : they are 
little, and of a gold yellow. 
The feed is fingle, round, and naked. 
It is common in the paftures of Virginia and 
Penfylvania, and flowers in July. 
Plukenet calls it Centaurium luteutn afcryoides 
Virginianum. LinnEEUS, The/iim fiorihus iimklla- 
tis foliis oblongis. 
GENUS v. 
AGRIMONY. 
J G R 1 M 0 N I A. 
THE flower is compofed of five fmall petals : they are broad, and nipped at the top v and they have 
narrow bafes, by which they adhere to the cup. The cup is double the inner one is fmall, and 
ftands upon the rudiment of the fruit : this is divided flightly into five fegments, and it is hid as it 
were by the other or outer, which is larger. The feed is fingle, naked, rough, and has a double kernel. 
LinoEUs places this among the doiaaniria digynia ; the threads being twelve in each flower, and 
the fl;yles from the rudiment of the fruit two. 
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