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vulgar e, P. 272. Parvum^ G: 437. Small Purple 
Centory. In dry barren paftures. It flowers in 
July. The flowers are fometimes white. 
2. Cefitaurium palujire luteum minimum noftraSy 
R. 286. Small Yellow Centory. In rotten marfhy 
ground in Cornwall. The flialks generally rife two 
or three inches high, fometimes but one : The leaves 
are narrow and fharp-pointed : The flowers ihoot 
from the tops of little branches, fupported by long 
pedicles ; they are fmall, of a yellow colour, often 
clofed, and were difcovered by accurate obfervation, 
divided into five fegments : The feed-vefiel is of an 
elliptical figure *, and, when ripe, opens into two 
parts, fliap’d like the keel of a fhip : The feeds are 
very fmall, from a brown inclining to a blackifh 
colour. 
3 . Centaurium luteum perfoliatum.^ R. 287, 0.278* 
Minus luteum & perfoliatum non ramofum^ P. 271. 
ParvMn luteum Lohelii^ G. 437. Yellow Centory. 
At each joint are placed two fliarp-pointed leaves, 
clofely encompalfing the ftalk, and covered with a 
fine bluifh dull:, which is eafily rubbed off : The 
flowers are yellow, and cut into eight fegments, that 
feem like fo many petals. 
Centory is of a very bitter talle, of an operative cleanling fa- 
culty, opens obftrudions of the liver and fpleen, provokes urine 
and the menfes, helps the jaundice and intermitting fevers, 
ftrengthens the ftomach, and deftroys worms. Outwardly, it is 
ufed in fomentations againfl fvvellings and inflammations. 
Verbascum, Mullein. The leaves grow alter- 
nately, are large, hoary, and of a dark-green 
colour : The flowers are monopetalous, wheel- 
Ihap’d, and cut into five fegments, growing in 
a long thyrfe, on fhort pedicles, clofe to the 
ftalk : The fruit is oval, pointed, and bicapfular. 
The fpecies are : 
^ I. Verbafcum 'mas latifolium luteum R. 287. 
C 2394 Verhfcum album vulgarj^ five^ Thapfus bar- 
