Parietaria officinalis. Pellitory of the Wall. 
PARIETARIA Lin. Gen. PI. Polygamia Monoecia. 
HermaPhrod. Cal. 4-fidus. Cor. o. Stamina 4. Sty!, r. Sem. 1. 
fuperum, elongatum. 
Fem. Cal. 4-fidus. Cor. o. St am. o. Stylus 1. Sem. u fuperum, 
elongatum. 
Ran Syn. Gen. 5. Hereae flore imperfecto seu stamineo vel apetalo potius. 
PARIE I ARIA officinalis foliis lanceolato-ovatis, pedunculis dichotomis, calycibus diphvllis. Lin Svfl 
Veget ab. p. 763. Sp. P/. p. 1492. ' ' 
PARIETARIA foliis elliptico- lanceolatis, hirfutis. Baller. Hijl. p. 162. 
PARIETARIA officinalis. Scopoli FI. Carn. n. 1242. 
1 ARIETARIA officinarum et Diolcoridis. Bauh. pin. 121. 
HELXINE Camerar. Epii. p. 849. 
PARIETARIA Ger. emec. 33 r. vulgaris Parim/. 437. Ruii Syn. p, ,j °. Pefcry 0 f the Wall 
Ligbt/ool FI. Seat. p. 035. Hudfm FI. Angi. ed. 2. p. 442. Order FI. Vim. 1. 521. 
RADIX perennis, fublignofa, rubens, fibrofa. 
| ROOT perennial, fomewhat woody, of a red colour, and 
CAUDES plures, fuberefti, dodrantales, pedales et ul- f STALKS feveral, nearly upright, from nine inches to a 
tra ramotiffimi, teretes, ftriati, folidi, rubentes, | f 0 „, „ r ’ m ore in height touched 
pubelcentes ; ram cauh fimiles, alterni, diffufj. | round, floated, foiid, reddifh, and downy | 
FDT Ta olhppno t branches like the flalks, alternate and fnreadiiif 
FOLIA v al erna, pet.olata, ovata, acuta utrmque atte- f LEAVES alternate, fending on foot-felkl ova"e 
nuata, integerumn, patentia, ad margines et nointed. tane.rino- m«-orrlc —t- ’ 
» m-um, miuujuc atre- y 
nuata, integerrima, patentia, ad margines et 
venas flibtus praecipue pubefeentia, fupra fatu- * 
rate viridia, lucida, fubrugola, puudlis promi- 
nulis adfperfa. 
PETIOLI longitudine fere diametri foliorum, pubef- 
centes, lupra canaliculati. 
FLORES parvi, herbacei, hirfuti, feffiles, in axillis fo- 
liorum conglomerati, hermaphroditi et feminei. 
Hermaphroditi Flores duo continentur involucro hep- 
ta phyllo, perfiAente, foliolis ovatis, acutis pla- 
nis, hirfutis, hirlutie glandulofa. Jig. 
CALYX : Perianthium monophyllum, quadrifidum, 
planum, perfiftens. Jig. 9. 
COROLLA nulla, nifi calcyem dicas. 
STAMINA : Filamenta quatuor, alba, tranfverfim 
rugofa, inflante anthefi elallice refilientia, caly- 
cemque expandentia ; Antheras ovata;, ob- 
tufae, didymte; Pollen album. Jig. 4. 
PISTILLUM : Germen ovatum, viride, nitidum, nu- 
dum ; Stylus filiformis; Stigma penicil- 
liforme, capitatum, ruberrimum. Jig. 6. 
pointed, tapering towards each extremity, en- 
tire at the edge, fpreading, particularly downy 
at the edge and on the veins of the under-fide, 
on the upper-fide of a deep green colour, Ihi- 
ning, lomewhat wrinkled, and covered over 
with fmall prominent points. 
LEAF-STALKS nearly the length of the diameter of 
the' leaves, downy, hollowed above. 
FLOWERS fmall, of a greenilh colour, rough, feffile, 
growing in clullers in the ate of the leaves’ 
hermaphrodite and female. 
Two Hermaphrodite Flowers are contained in an in- 
volucrum compofed of feven leaves, and per- 
manent, the leaves ovate, pointed, flat, hirlute, 
the hairs glandular at the extremities. fi<r. 
CALYX: a Perianthium of one leaf, deeply divided 
into four l'egments, which are flat and perma- 
nent. Jig. q. 
COROLLA none, unlefs the calyx be called fo. 
STAMINA : four Filaments of a white colour, 
wrinkled tranfverfely, on the fliedding of the 
pollen flying back with an elafticity, “and ex- 
panding the calyx 5 Anthers ovate, obtufe, 
double; Pollen white, fi?. 4 . 
PISTILLUM : Germen ovate, green, Alining and 
naked; Style filiform; Stigma forming a 
bright fcarlet tufr. Jig. (-. 
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PERICARPIUM "■»* «. elongaram, ma- SEED-VESSEL none. Th rPedemihiM becoming elon- 
jus, c.impauulatum, coloratum, deciduum;? °-ated larger hrll fKan 1 1« 1 7 j • 
ora laciniis coniventibus danfo. fig. 3. j 
SEMEN unicum, ovatum, nitidum, in fundo perianthii. | SEED fingl^t'at'e.^l'n^g i„ the bottom of the petian- 
F ‘ mi Z^dZT S herma ‘ ,hroditOS 1 One tnl flower betwixt two hermaphrodite ones, 
r , IVY jej „ I within the involucrum 
CAL\ X quadrifidus, hufutus, ereftus, germen involvens. | CALYX divilible into four fegments, hairy upright 
COROLLA nulla. ! COROLI T'tmnf 5 ' ’ 
PISTILLUM ut hermaphroditi, at ftigma majus et paulo f PJSTILLUmT' = i'n the hermaphrodites, but the ffiuma 
^'CARP'DM nullum. | SEEDA “ d ^ 1 d0W "' S’ 
SEMEN nmeura ut in hermaphrodito, calyce quadrifido | SEED tingle, like that of the hermaphrodites inclnlld 
et vix mutato inclulum. fv>- - $ ? ^ ,i , c , , apiiroGires, liicioicct 
y * /,o. X III the quadr.fid calyx, which is but flightly 
altered. 
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