The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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GENUS XXV. 
K N A W E L. 
S C L E R J N T H U S. 
THE flower confifts of a cup, formed of a fingle piece, divided into five pointed fegments, and 
containing tlie filaments and piftil. The feed-vefli:! is of an oval form, very thin, and contains 
two feeds. 
'-Linn:tus places tliis among tlic decandr'm digynia ; the filaments being ten, and the flyles two m 
the flower. 
I. Germen Knotgrafs, or Knawel. 
Sderaiithu; tsnuifoUus. 
The root is fibrous and white. 
The flalks are numerous, three inches high, 
and branched. 
The leaves are narrow, oblong, and of a pale 
green. 
1 he flower.s are fmall and whitifh -, and they 
jre pliced in the divifions of the branches. 
We Kavc it in dry barren paftures. It flowers 
in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Pclygmim aiigujtijiiiio folio 
2. Great-flowered Knawel, 
Sckranthu! flore majors. 
The root is long, perennial, and full of fibres. 
The ilalks are eight inches high, beautifully 
divided into branches, and a little hoary. 
The leaves are oblong and narrow. 
The flowers are large, and ftand at the tops of 
the branches, and in the bofoms of the leaves. 
We have it in barren pallures. It flowers in June' 
Ray calls it Knazvel incanuiii fiors majors ■ps- 
renns. 
The earlier writers were not acquainted with it. 
GENU 
VERTICiLLATE 
C O R R I G 
S XXVI. 
knotgrass; 
I O L A. 
ri"^HE flower has no petals. The cup is formed of a fingle'piece, divided into five narrow feg- 
■Jl ments, hairy at the ends, and is of a pentangular form. The feed-veflTel is roundifli, and th& 
feed is large. 
Linn.tus places this among ihe fentandria digynia ; the filaments being five, and the ftyle, though 
fingle, fplit at the top. 
I. Verticillate Knotgrafs. 
Oynigiola vulgaris. 
The root is fibrous. 
The l^alks -are numerous, and weak, three 
inches long, and of a pale green. 
The leaves are fhort, broad, of a pale green, 
and hairy. 
The ilowers are fmall, and white : they are 
placed in clullers round the fl:alks, in the man- 
ner of thofe in the verticillate plants. 
We have it in the well of England toward 
the fea. It Bowers in July. 
C. B'auhine calls it Pilygala repens nivca. 
Others, Corrigiola. 
GENUS XXVII. 
RUPTUREWORT.) 
H E R N I A R I A. 
'"PHE flower has no petals. The cup is formed of a fingle piece, divided into five pointed feg- 
i menrs, which fpread open. The feed-vcficl is fmall, and remains in the bafe of the cup ; and 
the feed is fingle and fmall. 
2. Thick-leaved Verticillate Knotgrafsi' 
Corrigiola folio crajfo. 
The root Is very long and flender. 
The fialks are weak, branched, of a pale 
green, and four inches high. 
The leaves are fmall, rounded, thick, and of 
a flrining green. 
The flowers are fmall and white. 
It is found on our fea-coafl:s, and flowers in 
June. 
Ray calls it Polygonum maritirmim longius radi- 
satum. 
Rupturewort. 
Ilernicrla vidgaris. 
The root is long and flender. 
The ftalks trail upon the ground, and are three 
or four inches long. 
The leaves are Imall, oblong, broad, and of a 
yellowilh green. 
I'he flowers are very numerous, and greenifii : 
they ftand at the joints with the leaves. 
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It is common on our fca-coafts, and floweri 
in July. 
C.Bauhine calls it Polygamm minus, fsu Mills, 
gram minor. 
It is fometlmes lightly hairy, and has been 
confidercd in that fl:ate as a diftinft fpecies ; but 
this is no more than an accidental variety. 
It is an aflringent, but not ufcd in medicine. 
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