^2=2 ?ENTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. ^ 



and iifeful aperient medicine, good in obdruc- , 

 tions of the vifcera, and to promote the natural , 

 evacuations. The berries are alfo ufed to make 

 a wine^ which has fomething of the flavor of 

 frontiniac j and in fome countries they dye cloth I 

 of a brown color wqth them. The young um- i 

 bels before the flowers expand are by fome 

 ciLeem'd for pickling. 



ALSINE. Gen. PL 380. ; 



Cal. pentaphyllus. Petala 5, sequalia. Capfula uni- \ 

 locularis, trivalvis. 

 i^^edia I. ALSINE petaiis bipartitis, foliis ovato-cordatis. 

 Sp. pi. 3H9. {Oed. Dan. t. 525. florihus !^-and.ris.^ 

 <y /. A^'2^%. fioribus iQ-andris. Moris, hljh f. 5. t. 

 1^. f. ^. Gcr. Em. 6ii./. 2.) 

 Common Chickweed^ Anglis.. 

 In fliady places and in gardens frequent. G . V-IX. j 

 It varies in its number of flamina from three to ten. 1 

 Chickens and many kinds of fmall birds arc very ; 

 fond of this plant. 



T E T R A G Y N I A- 

 PARNASSIA. Gnu pL 834. 

 Cal. 5-partitus. Petf.Ia 5. Ne5faria 5, cordata, ci- 

 liata apicibus globofis. Capfula quadrivalvis. 

 pihflris I. PARNASSIA. 8p. pL 3^1. (Moris, hiji. f. 12. /. 

 10,/. 3. Gcr. Emac. 840./. \.) 

 Grafs of Parnaffus. Jnglis. 

 In bogs and wet paftures frequent. %. Vlll. 



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