The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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GENUS XIX. 
BASTARD BAUM. 
MELISSOPHTLLUM. 
THE (lower is labiated, and is formed of a fingle petal. The tubular pare is long and (lender : 
the upper lip is large, rounded, and placed upright : the lower lip is broad and obtufe. The 
cup is hollowed, and large, and at the top is divided into two lips. The feeds are four aiter every 
flower; and they Hand naked. 
I.inniEus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia ; the flower having two longer and two 
fhorter threads, and the feeds ftanding naked in the cup. This author allows it to be a diftinft ge- 
nus ; but he alters the received name, writing it melittis. 
There is but one known fpecics of this genus ; and that is common to Britain, and all the nor- 
thern parts of Hurope. 
Baftard Baum. 
Meli[fophyllufn. 
The root is compofed of numerous, thick fibres, 
of an acrid andbitterifh tafle. 
The ttalk is fquare, upright, firm, and a foot 
and half high : it is of a dulky green colour, and 
full of pith. 
The leaves are confiderably large, broad, ob- 
long, of a dufky green colour, and of a rough 
furface: they are placed in pairs, and have flen- 
der footftalks. 
The flowers rife in the bofoms of the leaves ; 
and they are large and purple. 
The feeds are uneven, large, and brown. 
It is common in the woods of Devonfhire, and 
fome other of the adjoining counties, and flowers 
in Augufl:. 
C, Bauhir.e caUs it Lamium montanum melijf^ 
folio. Others, Meiijfay and MeliJfophyUum. 
It is faid to be a cephalick i 
not well eftabliflied. 
but its virtues are 
E N U S XX. 
A L L H E A L. 
SID 
R I T I S. 
THE flower Is labiated, and is formed of a fingle petal. The tubular part is very fhort : the 
upper lip is rounded and turned, and is a little nicked at the edge j the lower lip.is divided into ■ 
three unequal fegments. - The cup is tubular, formed of a fingle piece, and terminated by five points. 
The feeds arc four after every flower ; and they fland naked. 
Linnipus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia \ the flower having two threads longer 
than the others, and the feeds ftanding naked. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
X. Broad-ieavcd Little Allheal. 
Siderilis fimila folio laticre. 
The root is long, flender, white, andfurnifhed 
with a few fibres. 
The firfl leaves are placed on (lender footfl:alks : 
they are oblong, broad, and indented at the edges : 
their colour is a pale green, and they have a faint 
fmell. 
The ftalks are fquare, weak, and branched : 
they are fix or eight inches long.; and they 
fometimes ftand ereift, fometimes lie upon the 
ground. 
The leaves on tliem are fet in pairs ; and they 
are oblong, broad, ferrated, and of a pale 
green. 
The flowers fiand in the bofoms of the leaves, 
and are fmall ; their colour is a pale red ; but they 
are fpotced on the infide with purple. 
The feeds are brown. 
It is common in our corn-fields, and flovrers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Sidcritis alfines triffcpni^ ^ 
f olio. 
2. Clown's Allheal. 
Sideritis fa^tida Jlrumofa radice. 
The root is compofed of numerous, irregular, . 
tuberous pieces, connefted by browri, thick 
fibres. 
The ftalk is upright, hairy, of a pale green, 
fquare, not mych branched, and two feet higli. 
The leaves ftand in pairs : they are oblong, 
narrow, ferrated at the edges, hairy, and of a 
pale green. 
The flowers a're very numerous : they ftand in 
feparate clufters round tlie upper part of the 
ftalk, and together form a kind of fpike: they 
are purple ; but the lower lip is fpotted with 
white. 
The feeds are angulated, fmall, and blackifh. 
It is common in damp places, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Stachys palufiris fxtida. 
The common writers, Siderltis Anglica flritmofa 
radice. 
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