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SCROPHULARIA. Gen. pi ys^-^- 



Cal. 5-Iidus. Cor. lubglobofa» rcfupinata. Caps. 2- 



locLilaris. 



SCROPHULARIA foliis cordatls trinervatis caule. 



obtufangulo. Lin. fyfi. nat. p. 4(3. > /;. pi. 863. 



Ger.em. 716./. i. Rivin. t. 107. Backi!::elL t. %'j. 



Moris, hifi. f. 5. /. 8. /. 3. ordinis inferioris. Pet, 



herb, t 35./. 9.; 

 Knobby- rooted Fig-wort. AngUs, 

 in woods and moid ground not iinfrequent. if. 



VII. 

 The root is tuberous : the ftalk^ are 4 or 5 feet 



high, and branch'd towards the top : the leaves 



heart fhap'd, ferrated, and acute. The flowers 



are of a dark red color, fliaped like a cap or 



helmet, the lower lip greeniHi : they grow in loofe 



dichotomous fpikes or Racemi. At the top of 



the branches. 

 The leaves have a foetid fmell, and hitter tafte. 



A decoftion of them is laid to cure hogs of the 



meafles. 

 An ointment made of the root has been formerly 



ufed to cure the piles and fcrophulous fores, but 



is at prefent out of pradice. 



SCROPHULARIA foliis cordaris obtufis petiola- 

 tis decurrentibus, caule membranis angulato, ra- 

 cemis terminalibus. Lin. Jyji. nat. 413. Sp. pi. 

 864. Ger. em. 715. Loes. Fior. Yrufs. 24X. ic. 75. 

 Blackwell t. 86. Moris hijt.f. 5. /. 9. /, 4. ordinis 



inferioris. 



