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whofe leaves are covered with a filvery hairy down on their 
under Jide. 
10. Urtica {Balearica) foil is oppoOtis cordatis ferratis, 
amends fructiferis globofis. Lin. Sp. 1395. Nettle 
with heart-ftoaped fawed leaves placed oppofite , and glo- 
bular katkins and fruit. Urtica pilulifera, folio an- 
guftiori, caule viridi Balearica. Boerh. Ind. alt. 11. 
■ 106. Narrow-leaved pill-bearing Nettle, of the Balearic 
Ifiands , with a green ft alk. 
The firft of thefe forts is a very common weed upon 
the fides of banks, ditches, and other uncultivated 
places, where its roots will fpread, and over-run the 
grounds, fo that it fhouid always be carefully extir- 
pated from gardens •, it is fomenmes ufed in medi- 
cine, but may be eafily procured from the fields at al- 
moft any feafon. 
The fecond fort is alfo a very common weed in gar- 
dens, and in cultivated fields ; but it being an annual 
plant, is not fo difficult to eradicate as the former. 
Thefe plants are fo well known as to need no deferip-' 
tion. 
The third fort grows naturally in Romney Marffi, and 
near Yarmouth ; this is an annual plant which rifes 
near three feet high. The ftalk is herbaceous, thick, 
of a purplifh colour, and armed in every part with 
flinging hairs. The branches come out oppofite. 
The leaves' are heart-fhaped, the lower ones are three 
inches long, and two broad toward their bale, and 
end in acute points; they are deeply fawed on 
their edges, and ftand oppofite upon long foot-ftalks; 
thefe are alfo armed with flinging hairs on both Fides. 
The male and female flowers come out from the 
wings of the leaves at the fame joint, on each fide 
the ftalk ; the male Handing above the female, up- 
on long {lender foot-llalks or katkins, placed very 
loofely. The female flowers have fhorter foot-ftalks, 
and are in globular heads ; thefe are fucceeded by 
fmooth fhining feeds like thofe of the Flax. It flowers 
in July and Auguft, and the feeds ripen in autumn. 
The tenth fort grows naturlly in the Balearic Ifiands. 
This was difeovered by Mr. Salvadore, an apothecary 
in Barcelona, who fent the feeds to many botanic gar- 
dens, w'here the plants have been cultivated feveral 
years; this differs from the third fort in having narrower 
leaves and globular katkins, but being fomewhat 
like it, is not often diftinguiflied from it. 
The fourth fort grows naturally in Spain and Italy ; 
this is alfo an annual plant, whofe ftalks are much 
flenderer than thofe of the former, and feldom branch. 
The leaves are placed by pairs, upon very fiender 
foot-flalks ; they are oval, fpear-fhaped, and for the 
moll part entire, and have male and female flowers 
fpringing from the wings of the leaves, which are 
fiiaped like the former, the whole plant being armed 
with flinging hairs. This flowers and perfedls its 
feeds at the fame time as the other. 
Thefe plants may be eafily propagated by fowing their 
feeds in March, upon a bed of light rich earth, and 
when the plants are come up, they fhouid be tranf- 
planted out into beds, or the borders of the pleafure- 
garden, interfperiing them amongfl other plants, that 
they may not be eafily difeovered by perfons whom 
there is a defign to deceive, by gathering a fprig for 
them to lmell to. After the plants have taken root, 
they will require no farther care but only to keep them 
clear from weeds. In July they will flower, and their 
feeds will ripen in autumn, which, if permitted to fhed 
■upon the ground, will come up the following fpring, 
and fiouriffi without farther care. 
The feeds of the third fort are fometimes ufed in me- 
dicine. 
The fifth fort grows naturally in Tartary, from whence 
the feeds were brought to the Imperial Garden at Pe- 
terfburgh, and have fince been difperfed to moil parts 
of Europe ; this has a perennial root, from which 
fprings up many fquare flalks which rife five or fix 
feet high, garnifhed with oblong leaves deeply cut 
into three lobes, which are acutely indented on their 
edges ; thefe Hand oppofite upon long • foot-ilalks. 
PI19 flowers are produced from the wings of the leaves 
in long cylindrical katkins ; the male are produced oil 
the lower part of the ftalk, and the female on the r o- 
per ; the latter are fucceeded by feeds like thole of 
Flax, incloled in the three-cornered empalemenc of 
the flower. This flowers in July, and the feeds ripen 
in autumn. The flalks and leaves of this fort are 
armed with flinging hairs. 
This, plant is eafily propagated either by feeds or 
parting of the roots, and will thrive in moil foils or 
. iituations. 
The fixth fort grows naturally in Canada, and other 
parts of North America ; it is an annual plant, with a 
lucid herbaceous ftalk, which divides into feveral 
branches, garnifhed with oblong fawed leaves, 
having three longitudinal veins • they are placed op- 
pofite upon pretty long foot-flalks. The flowers are 
produced from the wings of the flalks in fi ogle katkins, 
which are not divided ; they appear late in the year, 
and unlefs the autumn is ver-y favourable, the feeds 
will not ripen in England. 
The feventh fort grows naturally in North America ; 
this has a perennial root, from which fpring out ma- 
ny flalks from two to three feet high, garnifhed with 
oval fpear-fhaped leaves placed oppofite, (landing 
upon long foot-flalks ; they are crenaled on their 
edges, and end in acute points. The flowers come 
out from the wings of the leaves on every fide the 
ftalk, in long, cylindrical, undivided katkins ; thefe 
appear in Auguft, but the feeds do not ripen in 
England. 
The eighth fort groves naturally in Canada and Virgi- 
nia. The root is perennial; the flalks rife two feet 
high ; the leaves are oval, heart-fhaped, and ftand 
alternately upon the ftalks ; the flowers come out in 
branching katkins from the wings of the ftalks ; thefe 
appear toward autumn, but are feldom fucceeded by 
feeds in this country. 
The two laft forts are common in many Englifh gar- 
dens, where they are preferved more for the fake of 
variety than for any beauty. They may be propa- 
gated by parting their roots in the fpring, and planted 
in almoft any foil or fituation, and will endure the fe- 
vered cold of this climate in the open air. 
The ninth fort grows naturally in China, where it is 
titled Peama ; this is a perennial plant, fending up 
many ftalks from the root, which rife three or four 
feet high, garnifhed with oval leaves drawing to 
points at both ends ; they are four inches long, and 
two inches and a half broad, fawed on their edges, of 
a deep green on their upper fide, but very white on 
their under, and have five longitudinal veins ; they 
are placed alternately, and ftand upon very long {len- 
der foot-flalks. The flowers fpring from the wings 
of the ftalk in loofe katkins ; thefe are not fucceeded 
by feeds in England. 
This may alfo be propagated by parting of the roots, 
which fhouid be done in May, for at that feafon this 
plant is in its lead vigour, the winter being the time 
when it is moft flouriihing. 
The plants muft be planted in pots filled with light 
earth, and as they are too tender to thrive in the 
open air in England, fo they fhouid be kept in pots, 
and houled in winter, and only expofed to the open 
air for three months in the heat of hammer. 
UVA U R S I. See Arbutus. 
VULNER ARI A. See Anthyllis. 
U V U L A R I A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 373. 
The Characters are, 
d’he flower has no empalement ; it has fix oblong , , eredf, 
fpear-fhaped petals, and fix awl-Jhaped Jfamina terminated 
by oblong , eredi, four-cornered fiummits ; it has an oblong, 
obtufie, three-cornered germen , fiupporiing a ftyle longer 
than the ftamina , crowned by a triple, obtufie , ftpreading 
ftigma. The germen afterward turns to an oblong obtufe 
capfule with three lobes and as mayiy cells, filled with flat 
orbicular feeds ranged in a double order. 
This genus of plants is, ranged in the firft feclion of 
Linnaeus’s fixth clafs, which includes thofe plants, 
whofe flowers have fix ftamina and one ftyle. 
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