GYNANDRIA POLYANDRIA. ' 529 



Wake-Robin or Cuckow-Pint. Anglis. 

 Under hedges and in fliady places, but not fo fre- 

 quent as in Ejigland. %. V. 

 The root is tuberous and flefhy, with fibres grow- 

 ing out of the bafe : the leaves are radical, fliap- 

 ed like the barb of an arrow, fupported on 

 footftalks, fmooth and glolTy, and often ftain'd 

 with dark or white fpots : the fpatha is whitifli, 

 deciduous, and fhap'd not unlike a hare's ear : 

 with.n it is a purple club-lhap'd7^;^i/>, the bafe 

 of which is furrounded with numerous ^tr;;;/;/^, 

 with many feffile quadrilocular Anthers above 

 them, and again over thefe fome roundifli Fa- 

 pillo'^ terminated with deflex'd hairs. The ber- 

 ries when ripe are fcarlet, full of juice, and con- 

 tain each one or two round, hard feeds, reticu- 

 lated on the furfacc. 

 The whole plant is extremely acrimonious to the 

 tafte, inflaming the mouth for a long time after- 

 wards •, but the roots when boil'd or dry'd lofc 

 all their acrimony, and become perfedly infipid, 

 and being of a farinaceous quality, have fometimes 

 been made into bread and flarch. They arc 

 efteem'd good in aftmatic complaints, and ob- 

 ftrudions of the Bronchia j but are rarely ufed 

 in the prefent pradtice. 



ZOSTERA. Gen. pi. 1032. 

 Spadix linearis, altero latere fruftifero. Cat. o. 

 Cer. o. Stam. alterna. Sem. folitaria alterna. 



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