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imdisturbed, and they will take root and grow, 

 and bear fruit abundantly. 



The white dead nettle (Lamium alhvni) is in 

 appearance something like the true nettle, but 

 its rings of Avhite flowers at once distinguish it, 

 as the blossoms of the true nettles are all green ; 

 its odour is very disagreeable, bv\t Linnaeus 

 states, that, in Sweden, it is much employed 

 as a vegetable for the table. 



The flower so often praised as the handsomest 

 of our native flowers, the tall and showy fox- 

 glove, (Diffif all's 2n(rpia'ea,) graces the banks and 

 hedges, during June and July. The spike of large 

 purple, or white freckled bells, and its large 

 leaves, render it so striking an object, that the 

 artist frequently selects it to adorn his painted 

 landscape ; it contains a virulent poison, but is, 

 when properly administered, a most valuable 

 medicine. In some countries, the foxglove leaf 

 is made into tea, for the sinful purpose of pro- 

 ducing intoxication, and degrading the being, to 

 whom God has given an immortal spirit, and 

 a clear intellect, to a condition beneath that ot 

 the brutes which perish. This showy flower 

 is peculiar to hilly and rocky situations, and is 

 but little known as a wild flower in some parts 

 of England, as in Norfolk and Suffolk. 



On the dry chalky soils, the burnet, (Pote- 

 rium sanf/uisorba,) is blooming, with its heads of 

 })urplish-green flowers. It is called the salad 

 burnet, because its leaves have the scent and 

 flavour of the cucumber, and are consequently 

 often used in salad ; it is also, as well as the 



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