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Alius An£lor Gall. cujus relatio de hoc ar- 

 gumento a Societate AgYimltiiYa Varifionnn edita 

 fuit, nomen valde incptumj Turlips g) huic plantae 

 dedic. 



In Hollandia denique, Si \\\ Anglia fiib nomi- 

 ne foot of Scarcity forfitan ex Gallia in Angliam 

 transmilTa, nuperrime coli ccepic h), 



§. if. 



Beta p abular i s QQi VQvictQS Bet^vulg] minus^^ 

 itaque necelTariiim autumo completnm heic propo- 

 nere defcriptionem, quandoquidem ipfa fpecies ubi- 

 que imprimis fit cognita. Adeft vero prxcipua 

 radieum diftinSlio. Radix B. vulg. fufiformis vel 

 tcres, oblonga, apicem verfus attenuata, raro vei 

 parum in ramos excurr^n^. Radix B. pab. ovalrs, 

 jonge craffior, proportione crafiifudinis brevior, 

 formam radicis Braft napob. referens. Rad. B vulg.. 

 tota intus rubra. Rad. B. pab, colore pnllido & 



albo' 



g) Rozier, cour compl. d'ogncult. Ait. RaciiYe de difette* 



h) Ex Epiflola Societati Agi-icul. Amfteiod. a Secrctis asl D. Lett* 

 ioinj Londin. liffc ndfcibere luht;t: "The fcarcity root is alre-- 

 ady known troughout our province; we fiini no reali, . fo com. 

 j)lain ofthis difcovery; our foils cre very Jipt to beni them, and 

 particularly the fens and moory grounds, promote the wegeta- 

 lion of this root to n prodigious fize, fo thnt foine of thieni- 

 weighed 36 Ih. ^vitli the blade. We conlider both thefe plants 

 (fcarcity voot, and niowing ccbbage) as a very beneficial acijui. 

 fition, for lucb of our countrymen os live upon poor heathy 

 grourds, who sre alwnys in need of prop.er fodd^r to fuflairt 

 ihsr cattlfc'*, The Bee, or literary weekly Intelllgencer, by Ja- 

 sies Aud«rJ[on, Edinburgh ijfji. Yol. 1. p«g. 337« 



