Flora Medica

GLOBULARIACEJE.^Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 268.GLOBULARIA.Flowers surrounded capitate, by an imbricated involucre.Calyx tubular, 5-toothed. Upper lip of the corolla 2-fid, lower3-parted.Fruit seed-like, enclosed within the calyx. Receptaclecoriaceous.972. G. A.\yf\imLinn.sp. pi 139. DC. Fl.fr. n. 2333. Lam.encycl. ii. 724. R. and S. ii. 38. ( Garid. Aix 210. t. 42.)South of Europe, on the coast of the Mediterranean, on rocks.Stem 2 feet high, and more, erect, shrubby, branched, brittle. Leavesevergreen, small, myrtle-like, hard, lanceolate, 3-toothed and entire.Corolla pale blue, in terminal heads which are much like those ofScabiosa succisa. Calyx covered with white hairs. Corolla 1-lipped,trifid. A bitter, drastic purgative, once supposed to be the 'AXvirovof Dioscorides, and hence called Frutex terribilis. The Alypum howeverhad the a-reppa we and was iTridvfjiov, therefore in all probabilitysome Euphorbia.973. G. vulgaris Linn. sp. pi. 139. Willd. i. 540. Lam.encycl. ii. 730. R. and S. ii. 39. ( Cam. hort. 1 8. t. 7. Moris,hist. iii. t. 15. f. 46.) Hills and dry meadows in the middleof Europe.Stem herbaceous. Radical leaves spathulate-lanceolate, somewhatemarginate, or 3-toothed, much shorter than the petiole; with themiddle rib prolonged into a mucro ;cauline lanceolate. Flowers blue,in heads solitary at the point of a simple leafy scape. Two of thestamens longer than the others. Purgative like the last ;and hasbeen employed as a resolvent and vulnerary according to Lemery.974. G. nudicaulis L. has similar properties.4-75