The BRITISH HERBAL. 
Grafiy Sea-Pondwecd. 
"Potamogiton mantimnm faliis gramineh. 
The root confifts of a few fmall fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, (lender, and branched, 
and three or four inches in length. 
The leaves are narrow, grafly, numerous, and 
of a faint green. 
The male flowers rife in catkins from the 
bofoms of the Jeaves ; and are of a brownifh 
coiour. The female flowers Hand in a kind of 
umbells, and are grecni/h. 
We have ic in the ditches of falt-marflies, 
flowering in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Potamogiton marithmm gramineis 
longioribus foliis-y fruSlu fere umhdlato. 
GENUS V. 
G L A S S W O R T. 
^ALICORNIA. 
'-pHE (lower is compofed of a fqunre cup, and a fingle filament, with a Ample ftyle rifing from 
J- .the rudiment of the feed. This is its whole conftruaion. The feed afterwards ripens, and 
the cup fwells and enclofes it. ' 
Linnaeus places this among the monandria, his firfl; clafs; feparating it far from all the other apeta- 
lous plants. 
I. Jointed GlaflAvorC. 
Salicornia genic'data. 
The root is fmall and fibrous, 
The plant is of a moll Angular fl:ru(5lure, re- 
fembling fome of the fubmarine more than the 
terrcftria! kinds. 
The ftalk is compofed of fhort, thick joints j 
and is five inches high, and very much branched. 
The branches divide again, and are jointed more 
confpicuoufly than the main ftalk i and on thefe 
iland the flowers, which are fmall and whitifli. 
The whole plant is naturally of a frefh green, but 
often red at the lower part, and fonietimes 
throughout. 
It is common in our fait marflics, and flowers 
in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Kali geniculatum. Others, 
Salicornin. 
The plant is diflinguiHied from all the others 
by the lucculency of its branches, and its want of 
leaves; but there have been three or four va- 
rieties of it, foiely owing tothe manner of growth, 
defcribfd by frivolous writers, as diftinft fpecies, 
under the names of myofuroides., ramofior,zv\d erc^la. 
One there is truly diltinft, which follows. 
2. Shrubby GlaflTworC. 
Salicornia frv.ticofa. 
The root is fibrous. 
The ftem is hard, woody, and brown. 
The branches are numerous and tender, and 
they are naturally redifli. 
The flowers are fmall, and rediOi. 
We have it on our fca-coafls, flowering in 
June. 
Ray calls it Kali fruticofum perenne frocttmbens. 
The tender branches of the preceding kind are 
pickled for fampire -, but it is a fraud ; and they 
are much inferior. 
GENUS VI. 
H O P. 
L U P U L U S. 
'J^HE flowers are of two kinds, male and female, and are produced on fcparate plants of the fame 
fpecies.. The male flower is compofed of five filaments, placed in a fivc-leaved cup. The fe- 
male isTornled of a large, oval cup, flatted on one fide, made of a fingle leaf, and containing with- 
out any filaments a fingle rudiment of a fruit, with two fl:yles. 
Linnxus places this among the dikcia hexandria. 
The Common Hop. 
hiipidus vulgaris. 
The root confifl:s of numerous, thick fibres, 
and fends out fpreading fhoots. 
The ftalks are tough, flender, flriated, and, 
when fupported, riie to twenty feet. 
The leaves are large, broad, of a coarfe green, 
and bc;iuiilully divided, with the fegments fer- 
The male flowers hang from fome of the plants " 
in brown feries." The female, colledted into - 
-heads, ripen upon others-, dnd' thefe' are ufed 
in brewing. 
The plant is wild in our hedges, and culti- 
vated in grounds for the fervice ot the brewery. 
Its young tops are alfo eatabte as afparaguf, 
and as pleafant. 
C, Bauhine calls it Liipiihs mai et famine.. 
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