The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
Common Agrimony. 
ylgrimonia vulgaris. 
The root is formed of feveral thick, tough 
fibres. 
The firft leaves are numerous, large, and pin- 
nated : they have fhort, redifli footftalks; and 
each is compofed of about four pair of pinnx, 
with an odd one at the end : their colour is 
a beautiful frefli green on the upper fide, and 
greyifh underneath. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and two 
feet high : it is thick, hairy, not at all branched, 
and of redifh colour. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a gold yellow : 
they are placed in a long, flendcr fpikc at the top 
of the flalk. 
DIVISION II. 
Smail-flowered Agrimony. 
ylgrimonia fiorihiis pari'is. 
The root is long, thick, and furniflied with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a fmall tuft ■, and are 
obiong, and irregularly pinnated : each is com- 
pofed of four or five pairs of fmall pinnre, of an 
uncertain fizc, arranged in pairs along a middle 
rib ; at the extremity of which there ftand three 
larger and "more regular fegments : they are of a 
deep green on the upper fide, and grey under- 
neath. 
The feeds are large and rough, with a kind of 
liooked hairs. 
It is common in our paftures, and flowers in July^ 
C. Bauhine calls 'it Eupatorium veferum, fivg 
Agrimonia. Others, Agrimonia^ and Agrimonia 
vulgaris. 
It is a diuretick and deobftruent, greatly re- 
commended by the antients, but very much 
negleffled in the prefent pradice. It opens ob- 
fl:ru(51:ions of the vifcera, and is good in the 
jaundice. It alfo gently and fafely promotes the 
menfes. 
The frefii leaves make a tea not unpleafant ; 
and, taken conflantly in this method, the cffedt 
will be very happy in regularly bringing on that 
difcharge. A fyrup of the root is alfo recom- 
mended againft catarrhs. 
The ftalk is round, upright, hairy, redifli, and 
a foot and half high. 
The leaves on the lower part of this refemble 
thofe from the root ; but thofe toward the top are 
compofed only of three fegments, fuch as termi- 
nate the three others. 
The flowers are fmall and yellow. 
The feeds are large, naked, and fmooth. 
k is common among trees in Italy, and flowers 
in Auguft;. 
C. Bauhine calls it Agrmoma Jimilis. Othersj 
Agrimhiicides. 
FOREIGN SPEtlES. 
GENUS VI. 
THRIFT. 
S r yl T I C E. 
THE flower is formed of five petals, narrow at the bafe, broader toward the top, and joined at 
the fides fo as to form .a kind of bell. There are two cups, one proper and particular to each 
flov/er, the other general or common to the whole tuft. The proper cup is formed of a fint^le leaf ■ 
and is of a hollow fliape, narrow at the bafe, and wide at the rim, where it is folded or wrinkled' 
but not cut into fegments. The general cup is triple, and it collects the whole tuft of flowers into a 
kind of round head. The feed is Angle and fmall, roundifli, and placed naked in the proper cup of 
each flower. 
Linnrcus places this among the pentandria pcntagynia ; the threads in the flower being five, and the 
ftyles of the fame number. 
Common Thrift. 
Slatice vulgaris. 
The root is long, thick, and furniflied vi'ith a 
few fibres : toward the top it ufually divides into 
two or three heads ; and from each of thefe rifcs 
a large clufler of leaves. 
I'he leaves are long, narrow,, and grafly : their 
colour is a bluifh green; and they are fmooth, 
undivided at the edges, and fliarp-pointed. 
The ft:alk rifes in the centre of a tuft of thefe 
leaves ; and it is round, upright, fimple, naked, 
and of a pale greyifh green. 
The flowers ftand at the top, a great number 
together, in a round clufter : they are moderately 
large, and of a pale flefliy purple. 
The feed is fmall, round, and of a deep brown,- 
It is common about our fea-coafls, and flowers 
in June. 
Its regular growth, and the beauty of its flowers, 
have introduced it into gardens, where it ferves 
inftead of box for the edgings of borders. 
C. Bauhine calls itCaryophyllus montama minor. 
Lobel, Cmyophyllus marinus mimmis. Others, 
Statice mcntana. 
The addition of montana is not abfurd, for in 
many pares of Europe it is frequent on hills far 
from the fea. Culture makes variations in this 
plant ; but there is no other known fpecies dif- 
tin(5t from this. 
The root is faid to be aftringent ; but it is not 
ufed. 
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