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2S cut into five fegments *, and, out of it, rifes ! 
the fiyle, which turns to a fruit, gaping on each “ 
fide of the mid-wall, fraught with finall feeds, 
■ ' growing to a placenta. I'he fpecies are : 
1. Pinguiciila Gefneri^ R. ^281. Pinguicula feu 
Sanicula Ehcracenfis^ G. 644, P. 532. Sanicula : 
montana flore calcari donate^ C. 243. Butterwort, ; . 
or Yorklhire Sanicle. In moifl places. Very com- 
mon in lVeftmo 7 ''eland'\', The leaves are of a yel- 
lowifh colour : The flowers of fome are purple, of ' , 
Others biuifh, and of others white. 
2 . Pinguicula flore minor e carneo^ R . ^ 2 8 1 . Butter- 
wort, with a fmall fleili-colouPd flower: The leaves 
are refledled and recurv’d •, almoft pellucid, and ftriped r 
with reddifh veins: The flowers are much lefs than 
thofe of the common one, and incline more to a , ^ 
llefh colour. 
Linaria, Toad-flax. It has oblong leaves, fome- rj 
times growing alternately, and fometimes by 
threes : The empalement is monophyllous, and 
divided into five fliarp fegments : The hind part 
of the flower is tubulous, ending in a long fpur ; 
the fore-part perfonated, and gaping •, the upper : 
lip is cut into two, or more *, the under, into three i 
parts : From the bottom of the tubulous part of < 
the flower rifes four chives: The ovary grows i' 
to a placenta in the bottom of the empalement, : 
emitting a long tube, and afterwards becomes a ^ 
round fruit, divided into two cells, which open j 
feveral ways. The fpecies are : 
^ I. Linar ialutea vulgaris^ R. ‘^281, G. E. 550. 
vulgaris noftras^ P. 458. vulgaris lutea flore major ey 
C. 212. Common Yellow Toad-flax. By way- I. 
fides, and in barren places. 
The whole herb is ufed, and is of an aperitive and diuretick I 
nature, opening obftructions of the liv^er and fpleen, helping the J 
, dropfy and jaundice, which it carries od’ by urine. I'iie oint- ■' 
ment, made with hogs lard, and a good quantity of tins herb, ^ 
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