ANTHYL'LIS VULNERA'RIA. 
WOUNDWORT. 
Class. 
MONADELPHIA. 
Order. 
DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGDMINOS.E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Native of 
Britain. 
6 inches. 
July. 
Perennial. 
Chalk hills. 
No. 1012. 
The name, Anthyllis, is composed of the two 
Greek words anthos, a flower ; and ioylos, down. 
Downy flower is quite applicable to our British 
plant, and to most others of the genus. Vulnera- 
ria was adoj^ted as a tiiAual name, from its ha\dng 
been previously made, by some old authors, the 
principal one by Avhich it was known. 
This is a neat little plant, one of our oa\ti na- 
tives ; but rarely met with, excepting in its own 
legitimate habitat, Avhich is on chalk hills, or 
where lime, in some state, abounds. It is one of 
the beautiful provisions of nature, that certain 
plants are provided for certain descriptions of 
earth ; where they form suitable food for animals 
that inhabit the same locality. The goat and the 
rein-deer — fitted for the mountains, have there 
their favourite food provided them. 
To secure the growth of this plant in its great- 
est beauty, it should be planted on rock-work, 
Avhere it will at all times be kept tolerably dry; 
or it may be kept with alpine plants. It can be 
increased by seeds ; or, occasionally, by division of 
its roots. 
