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Sage and nettles have fquare blades ; oppohte 
leaves, with flowers in ringlets j a cup, or chalice, 
riling like a faw, with live edges ; four ftamina, but 
only two in a perfeQ ftatc. Their flyle refembles 
a fork with two prongs, and their ripe truit is with- 
out a hulk. 
CalPs-muzzle, flax, &c. differ from the laft- 
mentioned fpecies, in having the grain in a fliell, 
called the pericardium. 
Tarnfol, borage, &c. bear alternate leaves, chec- 
quered with glands, or rough hair ; ftiff chalice, with 
five deep rows j a regular chaplet Tiiouopctcilj or 
formed of one petal ; but in the viperina, or viper’s 
herb, it is irregular, like a wheel, or a funnel. This 
kind of plant has five ftamina, or threads. 
The apocina and periwinkle have a five-edged 
cup, from which a double follicle, or veffel for the 
feed, Ihoots out ; with a Angle wreath of five rows, 
five ftamina, and grain with or without an aigrette, 
like a heron’s cap. 
Some of this kind are poifonous, or, at leaft, un- 
wholefome ; and even the laurel-rofe is dangerous. 
The three following kinds are of the compojite 
order, having feveral diftindt flowers united in a 
common chalice ; Angle-leaved garlands fixed upon 
one ovarium, or veffel, for the feed ; bare grain j five 
threads, or ftamina, united on the Aides with al- 
ternate leaves, in general \ apd other flight fhades 
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