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so delighted with this plant, that they can hardly be out of the 

 garden where it grows. Millar says, that cats will not meddle 

 with it if raised from seeds ; and in support of this opinion, 

 quotes an old saying, 



" If you set it, cats will eat it ; 



If you sow it, cats won't know it." 



Mentha Arvensis, or Corn Mint, is another plant belonging to 

 this class. It prevents the coagulation of milk; and when cows 

 have eaten of it, as they will do largely at the end of the summer 

 when the pastures are bax'e, and hunger distresses them, their 

 milk can be hardly made to yinld cheese, a circumstance that some- 

 times puzzles the dairy maid. Withering's Bot. 



Class Didyn. Gymnosp. The expressed juice of the Glechoma 

 Hederacea, mixed with a little wine, and applied morning and 

 evening, destroys the white specks upon horses' eyes. 



Paulli and Bartholinus affirm, that those who gather the Botany 

 (a plant of this class) in any considerable quantity, are affected 

 with a disorder resembling drunkeness. 



The expressed juice of the Antirrhinum Linaria, mixed with 

 milk, is a poison for flies ; as is likewise the smell of the flowers. 



Encyc. Brit. 



Note ^, page 79, line 1. 

 The Cheiranthus. 

 Class Tetradyn. Siliquosa. Cheiranthus Cheiri, Wall Flower. 



