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The I'ceds are black, 
It is common in wade places, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Horminum fyhejlre la-oeniuU 
fiort. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN 
It poffeffes the virtues of the garden-clary, but 
in an inferior degree ; for which reafon it is not 
regarded in medicine. 
SPECIES. 
Garden-Clary; 
licrminum hortevfe. 
The root is long, thick, brown, and hung with 
a few ftraggling fibres. The colour is brown, and 
the tafte warm, and not difagreeable. 
The leaves that rife from it are very large, of 
a whitilh green, and rough : they arc broadeft at 
the bafc ; whence they grow fmallcr to the end, 
where they terminate obtufely ; and they are 
(lightly waved at the edges. 
The ftalk isfquarc, firm, upright, and ayard high. 
The leaves Hand in pairs on it ; and they are 
large, rough, and of a greyifli green : they are 
placed on footftalks ; and are broad, and a little 
waved at the edges. 
The flowers fl:and at the tops of the (talks and 
branches in iong, thick fpikes ; and they are very 
large, of a gaping figure, and of a pale blue co- 
lour. The cups in which they ftand are gluti- 
nous to the touch. 
The feeds are fmooth, and of a dufl^y rediill 
brown, oblong, and of a glolTy furface. 
It is a native of the Greek iflands, and is found 
wild alfo in Apulia. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Honm^iiim fdarca didum- 
Others, Hormimm hortcnfn, .and Horviinuin "jul- 
gare fativum. 
This plant is cordial, incifive, and deobftruent. 
It is good againfl: flatulencies and indigefi:ions, 
as alfo in nervous complaints, hcadachs, and 
lownels of fpirits. 
A conferve of the tops of this plant warms 
the ftomach, and operates as a cordial. A dif- 
tillcd water of it has alfo the fame tSt& ; but it 
muft be of the fpirituous kind, for it does not 
fully give its virtues to water. 
It has been a cuftom to add the leaves to wine 
in the making : they give it a cordial virtue, and 
not a difagreeable flavour. 
GENUS IX. 
HED6ENETTLE. 
GALEOPSIS. 
THE flower is formed of a fingle petal ; which is tubular at the bottom, and divided in the k- 
biated manner at the mouth. The tube is Ihort, and between the upper and under lip there 
is a kind of palate, terminated each way by a little crooked tooth. The upper lip is large, hooked, 
and undivided : the lower lip is fliort, broad, and heart-falhioned, and it turns back. The cup 
is tubular, and at the top is terminated by five flendcr parts, refembling bridles. The feeds are four 
in number ; and they remain naked. 
Linnieus places this among the didynamia gymnoffermia ; the threads in the flower being four^ 
two of which are longer than the others, and the ftyle fingle. 
This author creates confufion by his diftribution of thefe plants. He takes away the name of 
gako^fis from this, making it a fpecies of fiachys ; and he ufes the word galnpjts, antiently and 
dillinaiy given to this plant, as the name of another genus, including the hmpncttles, and fome other 
kinds; of which we flaall (peak hereafter. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
Hedgenettle. ' 
1. Gakopfjs kgithm. ^ • 
- The root is long, flender, and creeping : it is 
white, and fends out long fibres on every part, 
from v/hich in feparate places rife numerous 
plants. 
The fl:alk is fquare, upright, hairy, and of a 
brownifli green : it is a yard high, and is rarely 
much branched. 
The leaves are placed in pairs ; they ftand at 
diilances ; and they have footftalks, which are 
green, and hairy. The leaves are very broad 
and fhort, heart-fafliioned at the ftalk, and pointed 
at the end : they are nicked a little at the edges, 
and their colour is a pale, greyifli green. Their 
fubftance is rough, the veins are large, and they 
are hairy. 
The flowers ftand in loofe fpikes at the tops of 
the ftalk ; and are large, and of a beautiful 
purple, agreeably diverfified with dots of white. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is common in hedges and among bulhes, and 
flowers in June and July. 
C. Bauhine calls it hamium maximum fyhati- 
cuni fo;lidum. Others, Galeopfit, and Gakopjis k- 
gitima DiofcGridis. 
It is a deobftruent ; its principal virtue is 
againft obftruiflions of the fpleen ; and the bcft 
method of taking it is the juice frelh prelTed. 
2. Small Hedge-nettle. 
Galeopjis minor foliis angulatis. 
The root is long and thick : it is furniflied with 
many fibres, and fends out many creeping parts, 
which run under the furface, and fend up plants 
in various places. 
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