in ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



In woods and hedges frequent. % . VI. 



The root is thick, brown, woody, and of a conical 

 iigure, fmelling fometimes in the fpring like 

 cloves : the leaves are hairy and pinnated, the 

 two or three loweft pairs being very fmall, and 

 the extreme one very krge, and divided into 

 three lobes : the ftipuls are large, and deeply 

 indented : the flowers are frnall and yellow : the 

 beards of the feeds hooked. 



The root is aftringent : an infufion of it in wine, 

 or thirty or forty grains of the powder, is efteem'd 

 a good medicine at the end of a dyfentery. 



rivak 2. G. floribiis nutantibus, frudu oblongo ; ariftis pki- 

 mofis tortis. Sp. pi. 717. Syjl.nat, 352. ifier.em. 

 995,/. 4. Pet, herb. t. 40 /. 3) 



Red Water Avens. Anghs. 



In wet and moorifn grounds very oomnion. %. VII. 



The flowers of this are pendulous : the calyces cy- 

 lindrical, and of a dull red color : the petals 

 erefl, emarginated, red and vein'd. 



It is found beneficial in diarrhasas and hasmorrha- 

 gies, and in Canada we are told it is ufed inftead 

 of bark for ague-.. 



DRYAS. Gen. pi 637. 

 CaJ. 8-fidus. Petala 8. Sem. caudata, pilofa. 

 DRYAS odopetala, foliis fimplicibus. Syji. nat. 

 352. Sp. pi. 717. (Oed. Dan. t. 31. Ger. em. 6§^. 

 f, 6. i^ voy. HehrideSy xxxiii.) 



The 



