THE 
BRITISH HERBAL. 
CLASS XXXV. 
Plants whofe flowers and feeds are minute and fingly inconfpicuous, and are 
not placed on the back of the leaves. 
GENUS I. 
A D D E R's TONGUE. 
OPHIOGLOSSUM. 
M^E feeds are arranged m a double ferrated receptacle, rifing on a Ralk from the bafe of the 
Adder's Tongue.' 
leaf. 
Ofhioghjfum vulgare. 
The plant confifts of a fingle leaf and a fpike. 
The leaf is fupported on a long, green foot- 
ilalk •, and is of an oval form, a aefhy fubftance, 
and a pale green. 
The fpike is green at firft, but as it ripens 
it grows brownilh. 
It is common in meadows in April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Olfhwgloffmn priamm feit 
vidgatum. 
The fpike is fometimes fplit, or double : in 
this cafe it has been fuppofed a diftinft fpccies. 
The leaves boiled in lard make an excellent 
cooling ointment. 
II. 
GENUS 
MOONWORT. 
LU N A R I J. 
yHE plant confifts of a fingle leaf, and a llalk fupporting a clufler of ferrated feed-velTels. 
Moonwort: 
Lunaria racemofa. 
The root is fibrous. 
The plant is eight inches high. 
The leaf is beautifully formed of round pinna;; 
and the ftalk is terminated by a branched clufter 
of brown feed-vefiels. 
We have it in the north of England in dry 
paftures. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lunaria racemofa minor fin 
vulgaris. 
GENUS III. 
DUCKWEED. 
L E N 1 I C U L A.] 
THERE are hermaphrodite and female flowers upon the fame minute plant : they are formed 
a-like of a rounded cup, which burfts at the fide ; and have no petals, in the hermaphrodite 
flowers the rudiment of the fruit fades ; and in the female it ripens mto a round feed-veflii, with 
a Doint, containing numerous minute feeds, 
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