SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. 5^7 



V. acaulis, foliis cordatis, ftolonibus reptantibus. 

 Sp.pl. 1324. (Ger. em. 850./. i. 2. Blacki^ell t. 

 55. Oed.Dan. 2. 309. opt.) 

 Sweeet Violet. Anglh. 

 Sail-chuach. Gaulis. 



Under hedges and on banks by the Gdes of ri- 

 vulets. i^.III. IV. 

 The root throws out creeping runners : the leaves 

 are heart-fhaped, crenated, and pubeicent un- 

 derneath : the peduncles radical: the flowers 

 extremely fragrant, and are either of the colour 

 which the Name of the plant imports, or white. 

 The flowers are efteemed to be anodyne, cooling 

 and emollient. A fyrup made of them proves 

 an agreeable and ufeiul laxative to children : 

 the leaves are alfo emollient, and the feeds 

 diuretic. 

 The blue tin^ure of violets is a common teR of 

 all acid and alkaline fubilances, for being mix'd, 

 the firft will always turn it of a red colour, the 

 latter of a green. 

 The Turks make a violet fugar of the flowers, 

 which diffolved in water makes their favorite 

 liquor, called SoTbei. Hajelquifs Voyage, p. 



254- 

 The Caledcnian ladies formerly ufed them as f= 

 cofmetic, as appears from the advice given in 

 ■the following Gaulic lines : 



Sail-chuach as bainne ghabhar 



Suadh re t sghaidh, 



'Schs 



