collect, and use as common salt, and esteem it supe- 

 rior in flavour. b 



m order z. TWO-FLOWERED LINN^EA grows in dry, 



Seeds enclosed. 



stony, mossy woods ; it is found wild in the neighbour- 

 hood of Aberdeen, and blossoms in May and June. 

 It is fragrant at night, and smells like the Meadow- 

 sweet. 



This flower was named after Linnaeus, who disco- 

 vered it in Lapland ; he seems to have had a par- 

 ticular partiality to it j and traced a fanciful analogy 

 between it and his own early fate — ' a little northern 

 ' plant, flowering early, depressed, abject, and long 

 e over-looked.' 



b Salt is the only fossil substance, Dr. Darwin says, which 

 the caprice of mankind has yet taken into their stomachs with 

 their food ; and, like all other unnatural stimuli, is not neces- 

 sary to people in health, and contributes to weaken our system, 

 though it may be useful as a medicine. It seems to be the im- 

 mediate cause of the sea-scurvy, as those patients quickly re- 

 cover by the use of fresh provisions ; and is probably a remote 

 cause of scrophula. I think the consideration of this subject of 

 infinite importance in the rearing a young family. 



