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is of a firong coppery brown in its native places, which is a fine con- 
trafl to the colour of the Leaves and Flowers 5 but is often loft in gar- 
dens. The Leaves are of a very fine green ; the Flowers of a beau- 
tiful blue. A great many of them are in perfedlion at once, on the 
feveral Branches of the Shrub, in June : at which time, it makes a very 
beautiful appearance. 
This is the Plant Authors call Herb Terrible and Gutwortj 
from a very harfh cathartic virtue in its Bark. 
4. HEART LEAV’D GLOBEWORT. 
Plate 16. Fig. 2. 
Chara£ler of the Species. Globularia Bifnagaria. 
The lower Leaves are heart-fhaped ; but they are lanced 
toward the upper parts of the Stalks. 
Fig. 2. a b. 
This is a perennial, a very beautiful Plant, common to Spain, and to 
fome parts of Africa ; it flowers in May. The Leaves are of a flrong, 
but fomewhat yellowifh green. The Stalk grows to two feet in heighth 5 
and is brown and hard toward the Bafe, but green and tender upwards. 
The Flowers are large, and of a celeftial blue. 
j. WEDGE LEAV’D GLOBEWORT. 
Plate 16. Fig. 3. 
Character of the Species. Globularia cordifolia. 
The Leaves are wedge-fhaped ; the End being broad, and 
divided into three parts, of which that in the middle is 
the leafb 
Fig. 3 . a b. 
This is a perennial, native of the Pyrenees, and of the Swifs moun- 
tains ; a low and very Angular Plant ; but far from wanting beauty : it 
flowers in July. The Leaves are of a coarfe green ; the Runners or 
Offsets from the Roots, which lie upon the ground, are thick and 
brown. The Flower Stalk is flender and greenifh, only a little brown 
at the bafe. The Flower is large, and of a delicate and fine azure. 
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