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spicuoiis for its pretty, though small ^ower. The 

 stalks are five or six inches long-, round, hairy, 

 weakj and trailing upon the ground. The leaves 

 are little, hairy, rounded^ and placed irregularly. 

 The flowers are very small, but they are varie^- 

 ted with purple and yellow, both colours very 

 bright ; they have a heel behind, and each stands 

 upon a little hairy foot-stalk, arising from the 

 bosom of the leaf. 



There is another kind, the leaves of which have 

 two ears at their base ; in other respects they are 

 the same, and they have the same virtOes. ^ Tha 

 juice of either is cooling and astringent. It is 

 given by the country people in the bloody flux and 

 overflowing of the menses. 



Fool's Stones. Satyrium sive oi^chis. 



A BEAUTIFUL wild plant in our meadows 

 and pastures in June. The leaves are long and 

 spotted, and the flowers are purple. It grows ten 

 inches high. The leaves are six inches long, and 

 three quarters of an inch broad, of a very deep 

 gf een, with large and irregular blotches of black m 

 different parts. The stalk is round, thick, upright, 

 «ngle, and fleshy ; it has tw o or three smaller leavris 

 of the same figure, and at the top stand the flowers, 

 in a spike of an inch and a half long ; thej^ are not 

 very large, and of a shape different from the generality 

 of flowers; their colour is a deep and glossy purple ; 

 but sometimes they are white. The whole plant is 

 juicy. The root consists of two round bulbs or 

 two round lumps, like a pair of testicles, and is 

 white and full of a slimy juice. 



The root is the only part used. It is supposed 

 to be a strengthener of the parts of generation, and 



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