2 72 ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



1. Moris, hifi. f,[2. i. 19. /. 7. Pet. herb. f. 41. 

 /.3.) 



Common Cinqiiefoil, or five-leav'd Grafs. Jnglis. 

 In damp clayey foils, but not very frequent. 'U. 

 VII. 



The root and leaves are aftringent and vulnerary. 

 A decodion of them has been found ferviceable , 

 in dyfenteries and asues. ' 



i 



TORIMENTILLA. Gen. pi. 63^- j 



Cal. 8-fidus. Pelala 4. Sem. fubrotunda, recepta- 

 culo parvo exfucco affixa. 



€re.Ja i. TORMENTILLA caule ereftiufculo, foliis fefTi- 

 libus. Sp. pL 716. {Ger. em. 992. Moris, hijl. f.\ 



2. /. 19./. 13. Blakwell. t. 445.) 



Tormentil orScptfoil. Jnglis, 



Bar-braonan-nan-con. Gaulis. 



In barren pailures, moors and heaths almofV every 

 where, il . VII. 



The roots confift of thick tubercles, an inch or 

 more in diameter, replete with a red juice, of 

 an aftringent quality. They are ufed in moll oi 

 the weftern ifles, and in the Orkntes^ for tanning 

 of leather ; in which intention they are proved, 

 by feme late experiments, to be fuperior even 

 to the oak- bark. They are firfl of all boiled ir 

 water, and the leather afterwards fteeped in th( 

 cold liquor. In the iflands of ^'irey and Col thf 

 inhabitants have deftroyed fo much ground b) 



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