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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
divided into five points at the edge. Befide this cup to every flower, there is a general involucrutn 
for each clufter of flowers ; which is compofed of narrow leaves, and divided in halves. 
Linnsus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia ; the flower having two longer and two 
fliorter threads, and the feeds ftanding naked. 
DIVISION I. 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
Stinking Hoarhound, 
BciUote fcetida vulgaris. 
The root is thick, long, and furniflied with 
many fibres, 
The flalks are numerous, fquare, and upright: 
they are light, hollow, and a yard high. 
The leaves are placed in pairs ; they have flen- 
der footflalks and they are of a rounded figure, 
and dark green colour, indented at the edges, 
foft to the touch, and hairy. 
The flowers are of a pale purple : they ftand 
\n ckifters in the bofoms of the leaves furround- 
ing the flralks. 
It is common in wade grounds, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Marrubium nigrum fd'tidunt 
ballote Diofcoridis. Others, Ballote. 
This is ont of thofe plants which poflefs great 
and unregarded virtues. It is one of the belt 
remedies in medicine for hypochondriac and hy- 
fterick complaints. It may be taken in form of 
a confer^'e made of the frefh-gathered tops, and 
in infufion in the manner of tea. 
DIVISION II. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Woolly Ballote. 
Ballole caule lanato. 
The root is long, divided, and furnlflied with 
many fibres. 
The fta)k is fquare, hollow, and upright; of 
a whitilh colour, and covered with a woolly 
matter. 
The leaves ftand in pairs ; and they are broad, 
and deeply divided into three or five fegments. 
The flowers are large and white. 
It is a native ot Siberia, and flowers in Au- 
gull. 
Amman, to v/hom we owe the knowledge of 
this Angular plant, calls it Ballota foliis GeranU 
batrachoidis. 
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II, 
HOODED WILLOW HERB. 
I D J. 
THE flower is labiated : It is formed of a fingle petal. The tubular part is very fliort, and 
turns backward. The opening is long, and flatted alfo. The upper lip is hollow, and divi- 
ded into three legments. The cup is tubular, and undivided at the mouth, where it has a kind of 
Tcale that falls over the opening to preferve the feeds. This has the fliape of a head-piece, and ferves 
as a feed-vefl'el and this alone will abundantly diftinguifh the plant. The feeds are four after every 
Rower ■, and they fliand naked in the cup, under the flicker of this mofl: Angular covering. 
Linnaeus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia there being two longer and two fliorter 
threads in the flower, and the feeds having no capfule. The plant perfc6lly agrees with the refl: in the 
character of the clafs, which is, that the feeds lie in the cup without a fced-veffel ; but it does not 
well anfwer to the term devifed by this author to exprefs it i for they are not naked, though they 
have no capfule. 
I. Common Cafllda. 
Cajfida vulgaris. 
The root is fmall and creeping : it is jointed 
at certain diftances, and fends fibres from thofe 
joints. 
The flalk is fquare, upright, branched, and 
about ten inches high. 
The leaves fl:and in pairsj and have fcarce any 
footfl:alks : they are oblong, broad at the bafe, 
narrower all the way to the point, and ferrated 
at the edges. 
The flowers are large, and of a fine violet 
blue : two of them grow together from the bo- 
foms of the leaves, and they hang drooping. 
The feeds are fmall and dufky ; and they are 
covered in the cup with a flielly fubfl:ance, like 
a head -piece. 
It is common by the fides of ditches, and 
flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lyfimachia carulea galericu- 
!ata five gratiola caridea. Others, 1" eriianaria, 
and Cajfida vulgaris. 
2. The Lefl'er Caflida. 
Caffida iimior fiore purpurafcente. 
The root creeps under the furface : it is 
jointed, and fends out fibres from thofe joints. 
The fl:alk is fquare, upright, branched, and" 
about fix inches high : it is fliriated, and of a re- 
difli colour. 
The leaves fl:and in pairs ; and are broad, 
fliort, and indented. 
The flowers are purple ; and they grow from 
the bofoms of the leaves. 
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