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T R I A N D R I A 

 MONOGYNIA. 



ffeudacO' IRIS. Fid. pag. 86. 



rus. Segs, i. e. Sedge. Scoiis auftralibus. 



In Mull, and fome other parts of the Highlands, 

 the root of this plant is ufed as a cure for the 

 tooth-ach, or any inflammation of the throat. 

 For this purpofe, a portion of the root, of the 

 fize of a nutmeg, is bruifed in a mortar with a 

 handful of daifies, the juice of it {trained thro* 

 a linen rag, and a tea-fpoonful of it pour'd 

 into each of the patient's noftrils. This ftrange 

 application is immediately followed by a kind 

 of falivation, or copious defluxion of rheum 

 from the mouth and noftrils, which often ef- 

 feds a cure, but not without great danger of 

 the patient's taking cold during the violence of 

 the operation. Mr. Stuart. 



fauciflorus. SCIRPUS culmo ftriato nudo, fpica terminall 

 paucifiora valvis calycinis longiore — a Linnao 

 non defcriptus. Haller. hiji. Helvet. n. 1335. 

 (Scheuch. Agrojl. p. 364. /. 7. /. 19. Oeder 

 Dan. t. 167 ? fed vix concordat, ^uoniam foliis 

 radicalihus deft i tut a. 



Little 



