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MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA. 
WATER TREFOIL, OR 
BUCKBEAN, 
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STNONTMA, Trifolium Paludosum, Phann, Lond. &" 
Edin. Menyanthes Palustre Triphillum, Tourn, Boerh, 
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Trifolium Fibrinum, Off, Germ. Aco"^ a^ Diofcor, 
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THIS plant is common in every part of England ; it grows 
In marflies and ponds, producing its flowers in an open terminal 
fpike about th 
end of J 
The fcapus, or ftalk, rifes from 
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inches in height.- The petals are foipetimes 
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fix to twelve 
white, but more commonly rofe-coloured"on the outfide, and within 
they are finely fringed, fo as to have a hairy or fibrous app 
ance, hence named Trifolium Fibrinum 
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perennial 
eepmg, and jointed, fending forth many long flender.. filame 
The trifoliata is eafiiy diftinguilhed from the other 'fp 
anthes by its ternate 
thofe of the common gard 
name, Buckb 
of Meny 
which have been thought to refemble 
a bean, and have given it the Englifli 
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The w^liole 
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that in fome countries 
fubftitute for hops in the preparation of 
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poor 
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bread of the powdered roots mixed; with 
he acknowledges it is a very .unpalatable food 
in Lapland make a 
but at the faftft time 
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