The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
Common Water Hemp-Agrimony. 
Eupatormyi viilgars. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, 
conneifled to a fmall head. 
The ftalk is round, of a pale green, four feet 
high, and not much branched. 
The leaves are divided in the manner of fin- 
gers ; and tiie fegments are very large, oblong, 
fharp-pointed, ferrated, and ot a pale green. 
The flowers (land at: the tops of the ftalks in 
vaft tufts 1 and are of a pale ficlli-colour. 
It is common by waters, and iiowers in June- 
DIVISION II. F O 
American Hemp- Agrimony. 
Eupatorluiii /hnericamun. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, con- 
nefted to a fmall head, 
The ftalk is firm, round, upright, ofaredilh 
-colour, dulled over with grey, and is four feet 
high. 
Tlie leaves ftand four at a joint ; and they are 
C. Bauhine calls it only, Eupatorium Cannahi- 
mm. Others, Eupatorium Cannahinum mas. 
The leaves of this plant arc fometimes undivi- 
ded at the upper part of the (talks ; and in tliis 
condition it has been defcribed by fome as a dif- 
tini5l fpecies j but erroneoufly, for ic is only a 
flight variety. 
Ic is a powerful diuretick and deobflruent. 
An infufion of the leaves is good againft the 
gravel ; and in the beginnings of dropfies. 
A fi:rong decoc5lion of the freili root is a rough 
purge. 
REIGN SPECIES. 
oblong, broad, ferrated, rough to the touch, and 
of a dun<.y green. 
The Rowers are placed at the tops of ihe 
branches in fmall heads j and chey are uf a rcdilh 
purple. 
It is common by rivers in Virginia, and f:owers 
in Auguft. 
Cornutus calls it Eitpatcrlum Americanmn l^UU 
emdee. 
GENUS XIL 
CUDWEED. 
G N A P H A L I U M. 
THE Rower is compofed of numeroos flofcules, placed in a common cup. This is of a rounded 
figure, and formed of many oval, pointed fcales. The flofcules are tubular, and divided 
into five fegments at the edge. The feeds are oblong, fmall, and winged with down. 
Linnseus places this with the reft among the fyngenefia. 
BRITISH SPECIES. 
DIVISION I. 
I. Sea-Cudweed. 
Gyiaphalium maritimum. 
The root is long and woody. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, white, and 
not much branched, and about ten inches high. 
The leaves are fliort, obtufe, and not at all di- 
vided ; they are of a white colour, and very 
thick covered with a downy matter. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches ; 
and are large and beautiful, of a fhining white 
on the edge, and a gold yellow in the middle. 
We have it by our fea coafts. It flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Gnaphalium mariltmum ; a 
name others have copied. 
The whole plant has an agreeable fmell. 
2. Long-leaved, upright Cudweed. 
Gnaphalium AngUcum longifolium ert^lum. 
The root is long and flender. 
The ftalks aie flender, upright, and a foot 
and half high. 
The leaves are long and narrow i and whicifli, 
as are alfo the ftalks. 
The flowers grow in finalt, blackheads, in the 
bofoms of the leaves from the middle to the top 
of the ftalk i and the plant is feldom at all 
branched. 
It is common in woods and thickets, and 
flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Gnaphalium majus migujlo 
ohiongo folio, 
5- Common Cudweed. 
Gnaphalium vuhare. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftalk is firm, upright, and ten inches high : 
it is of a tough fubftancc, a whitifli colour, and 
branched in a Angular manner. 
At the height of about leven inches there ftands 
a linglc head of flowers, which terminates the 
main-ftalk ; and from this rife two or more 
branches, each having at its top another head. 
Thefe are of a yellowifh brown ; and the leaves 
are oblong and white ; frequently alfo there rife 
other branches from the lower part of the flaik. 
C. Bauhine calls it Gnaphalium -julgare majus. 
Others, Herba impia. 
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