382 DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. 



ones are large, oval, flat, color'd, vein'd, and 

 refemble petals, which at length turn greenifli, 

 and remain a defence to the leed-veffel : the Co- 

 rolla confifts of three petals, folded together, 

 and forming a tube : the carina is terminated 

 with a kind of heart-fliap'd concave appendage, 

 fringed at the extremity. 

 It has a bitter tafte, and has been found to poiTefs 



much the fame virtues as the POLYGALA ^e- \ 

 . mga^ from America. It purges without danger. 

 It is alfo emetic and diuretic, and fometimes i 

 acts in the three different ways together. A 

 fpoonful of the decodlion, made by boiling an 

 ounce of the herb in a pint of water till halt is 

 exhaled, has been found ffrviceable in pleurifies 

 and fevers, by promoting a diaphorefis and ex- ; 

 peroration ; and three fpoonfuls of the fame ' 

 taken once an hour, has proved beneficial in the 

 dropfy and anajarca. It has alfo been found fuc- ' 

 cefsful in pthificky complaints. ' 



DECANDRIA. 



SPARTIUM. Gen.fl t^c,'^: 

 Siigma longitudinale, fupra villofum. Filamenta 



germini adha^rentia. Cal. deorfum produftus. 

 SPARTIUM foliis ternatis folitariilque, ranjis iner- 



mibus angulatis. S,p. pL 996. (Ger. em. 1311./. 



I. Rivin. t. 6^. Black-ivell I. 144. Ocd. Dan. t. 313. 



Common 



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