The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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SERIES I. 
• Natives of Britain. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are naturally wild In this country. 
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BUGLOSS COWSLIP. 
PULMO NARIA. 
rrl-IE flower Is formed of a fingle petal : it is tubular at the bottom - and is of the length of the cup 
^ in'this part. The rim is divided into five obtufe legments. The cup is tubular, formed of a 
:e, ftriated, and nipped in five places at the edge. 
lingle piece, 
and they fland naked. 
LinnKus places this among 
the ftyle fingle. 
the fetitandria momgynia ; 
The feeds are four after every flower ; 
the filaments in the flower being five, and 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
Long-leaved Pulmonaria. 
Pulmonaria longifolia. 
The root is fibrous. 
The firfl leaves are numerous, large, and beau- 
tiful : they are long, and moderately broad, 
ftarp-pointed, not at all indented at the edges, 
and of a deep green colour, handfomely varie- 
gated with fpots of white. 
The ftalk is firm, upright, not much branched, 
and a foot and half high. 
The leaves on this referable thofe from the 
root v but they are fniallcr. 
The flowers are very beautiful : they are placed 
in little tufts at the tops of the ftalks and branches 
In the manner of co'xpps, which they refemble 
alfo in their fhapc. Their colour is a fine bright 
red while in the bud 1 but they grow purplilh 
and bluifh, as they open. 
The feeds are roundifli. 
It is found wild in fome of our large woods, 
and for its beauty is brought thence into gar- 
dens. 
C. Bauliinc Ldlla \t fuhiKjnarui ungiijiifoUa ru^ 
hente creruleo fiore. Others, Pulmonaria fcUis 
echii. Our Englifh gardeners call this and the 
following bugJofs cowjlips^ and fage of JerufaUm, 
But thefe are bad names \ and as our language 
affords no better, it is befl: to ufe the Latin. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
Broad -leaved Pulmonaria. 
Puhwnaria latijolm. 
The root is compoled of long ard brown 
fibres. 
The leaves are very numerous, and fpread 
themfelves into a thick tuft : they are fupported 
on footftalks ; and they are broad, fhort, fliarp- 
pointed, not ferrated at the edges, of a deep 
green colour, and very agreeably fcattered over 
with white irregular fpots. 
The (talks are numerous, low, not branched, 
and of a pale green : they are eight or ten inches 
in height ; and their leaves fliand irregularly, and 
are broad and fiiort. 
The fiowers grow in tufts at the tops of the 
flalks, and refemble cowjlips in form : they arc 
of a delicate red when in the bud, but of a fine 
ccleftial blue when open. 
The feeds are oblong and obtufe. 
It is a native of the woods of Germany, and 
flowers in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Symphytum aiacuhftim, Jl'VS 
Ptdmonaria latlfalia,. Others, Pulmonaria mS' 
culofa. 
It is good in obfi:ru(5lions of the vifcera, and 
in the jaundice. The leaves and fretli tops boiled 
in ale are a familiar medicine among the peafanta 
of Germany in this diforder, and very iucceff- 
ful. 
GENUS II. 
HOUNDS-TONGUE. 
CTNOGLOSSU 
rr^HE flower is formed of a fingle petal : it is tubular at the bafe, and divided into five obtufs 
• J. fegments at the edge, and its opening is clofed by five little fcales. The cup is formed of a 
Cnffle leaf and is divided into five fegments at the edg-. The feeds arc four after every flower : 
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