248 DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



On the borders of fields and under hedges. VI f. i^i 

 The leaves are pinnated, foft and hairy, confifting 

 of fix or feven pair of ferrated p-nnce, with other 

 fmaller ones intermix'd between them, and an 

 odd one at the end : the flowers are yellow, and 

 grow in a long, flender unbranch'd fpike : the 

 fruit, or fwoln calyx, is crown'd with hooked 

 hairs, which adhere readily to the cloaths. 

 The leaves make a very pleafant tea, faid to be 

 ferviceable in hcjemorrhagies, and in obftruftions 

 of the liver and fpleen. The country people 

 alio ufe them fometimes by way of cataplafm in 

 contufions and frefh wounds, 



TRIGYNIA. 



RESEDA. Gen. 'pi. 608. 

 Cat. i-phyllus, partitus, Petala laciniata. Caps. 

 ore dehifcens, i-locularis. 

 iteola I, RESEDA follis lanceolatis integris bafi utrinque 

 unidentatis, calycibus quadrifidis. Syft. nat. 329. 

 Sp.pl. 643. {Ger. cm. 494) 

 Wild-woad, Yellow-weed, or Dyers-weed. Anglis. 

 In wade places near villages, as aboutDj/^r/, Burnt- 



IJland, and Lafwade, &c. O. VII. 

 The young leaves are often undulated : the (i:alk 

 is a yard high, or more, terminated with a long 

 naked fpike of yellowifli green flowers : the calyx 

 is quadrifid, the two upper fegments being wided: 

 the petals are three, the upper one nectariferous 



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