DIOECJA ENNEANDRIA. 621 



In woods and fhady places not iinfrequent, both in 

 the highlands and lowlands. %, V. 



The llalk is a foot high, ered, rough, and un- 

 branched. The leaves are oval-lanceolate, fer- 

 rated, rough, patent, and oppofite. The flowers 

 are green, and grow in thin llender fpikes out 

 of the al^ of the leaves. The furrows of the 

 germe7i receive each a barren filament, terminated 

 with a gland, marked with two brown dots. 



This plant is of a foporific deleterious nature^ 

 noxious both to man and beaft. There are 

 inflances of thofe who have eaten it by miHake 

 inftcad of Chenopoditim Bonus Henricus, or EngUJJy 

 mercury, and have thereby flept their laft flcep. 



It is called, in the ifle of ^kye^ Lus-glen-Braccdak^ 

 and 1 was informed that it is there fomecimes 

 taken by way of infufion to bring on a faliva- 

 tion. How well it anfwers ttie intention I know 

 not, but the experiment feems to be dangerous. 



annua 2. MERCURIALIS caule brachiato, foliis glabris, 

 floribus fpicatis, Sp.pL 1465. (GVr, em. 332. /, 

 1^2. Pet. herb. i. i.f. y & S. Moris, hijl. / 

 5./. 34./. 1 ^2. ordinis fuperioris. Blackwell.t, 

 162.) 



Annual Mercury. Anglis. 



In wafte places about towns and villages, but not 

 common. We obferved it zxEurntiJland^ on the 

 coaftof F//>. 0. IX. 



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