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is often cccafioned by their feeding on this 

 herb, which opinion is very ancient. 



H E X A N D R I A. 



nonfcrip- HYACINTHUS. p. 182. 



tus. The Highlanders call this plant in their language 



Fuath-muc, i. e. The Averficn of Sivine, and 

 fay that fwine have a particular diflike to the 

 roots. 



trifidus, JUNCUS, p. 184. 



See a good figure of the variety of this with a 

 fmgle flower, in Jacquin^s Enumcraiio jiirpium 

 Vindobcnenf. tab, 9. 



hufonius. JUNCUS, p, 185. 



The young feedjings of this rufh grow in tufts, 

 and refemble in that (late a mofs of the Bryum 

 kind. The leaves are narrow and fubulate, 

 fcarcely a quarter of an inch high, n^.any of 

 them bearing the yellow coat of the iz^d, on 

 their fummits, which at firft view appears like 

 the arithera of a Bryum. 



Petiver calls thefe diminutive feedlings by the 

 name of Pin-headed Cobweb Mujhrooms. See 

 his figure of them, P^/Zi;. Gazoph. tab. 51. f 

 7. and a much better in Rofe's Elements of Bo- 

 tany, 



