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arefometimes white and fometimes of a pale 
flefhcolour, but generally yellow with dark 
veins. 
Here is another weed, with white Lythof- 
flowers, which, on thefe lands, feems P ermum * 
more inimical to the farmer than 
the Charlock or any other. You will 
find it of the Clafs Pentandria and 
Order Monogynia. 
The flower, you pbferve, is monopetal- 
ous, regular, and fixed below the germin; 
the feeds are naked, and the leaves are 
rough: therefore we fhall find it in the firft 
divifion of the firft Order of this Clafs. The 
corolla, you fee, is fhaped like a funnel, with 
five flight fegments obtufe and eredl. The 
tube is cylindrical and open. The calyx has 
5 divifions. Now thefe circumftances unite 
only in the genus LitLofpermum, of which 
Linnaeus has 8 fpecies: three of thefe are 
natives of Britain, but only two have been 
found in Cambridgefhire, viz. L. ojficinale, 
and L. aruenfe. The ftem of the firft grows 
to the height of about 2 feet. The plant 
in your hand is not above half that height. 
In the firft the leaves are veined; in this 
they are not: but the rednefs of the root 
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