i 5 2 OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



and on moid hedge-banks. It is in great abundance under the 

 bufhes in Chipchace-'ifanA, in a light, mellow, fandy foil, thrown 

 up by floods. The root is faid to be deterfive and cofmetic, to 

 deface wrinkles, cleanfe the fkin, and clear the complexion, 

 prepared by drying and powdering, and made into a pafte. We 

 are afTured by an eminent naturalift that it was thus prepared 

 and ufed in Italy * j and we are told by another, that it is ufed 

 by the common people in France, in whitening linen f . 



27. Lily of the Vally (m). Among the bullies above the fear by 

 the mill at Nether-warden, near Hcxham. The fragrant pendulous 

 flowers are fucceeded by rouad berries of a beautiful orange-red, 

 of the fize of a common garden-pea. They moftly drop off be- 

 fore they come to maturity with us, which makes them but 

 feldom obferved. A green colour is prepared from the leaves 

 with lime, lafting and beautiful . 



Thefe are the Chief of our Berry-bearing plants. Next of thofe 

 that bear no berries. 



non maculatum. Park. Theatr. p. 372. Arum maculatum, maculis candidis vel nigris, 

 et non maculatum. C. B. Pin. p. 195. Turn. Inft. p. 158. Martyn. Tourn. i. p. 78. Hift. 

 Qxon. iii. p. 542. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 203. Arum foliis fagittatis cucullo refto. Hall, Helv. 

 p. 26. 



* Ceefalpin. 226. t Tournf. 



(m) Lilium Convallium. Dod. Pempt. p. 205. Cam. Epit. p. 618. Icon bona. Lilium 

 Convallium, Offic. Ger. p. 331. emac. 410. Dal. Pharm. p. 169. Raj. Hift. i. p. 669. 

 Syn. iii. p. 264. Lilium Convallium vulgo. I. B. iii. p. 531. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 539. Martyn. 

 Tourn. n. p. 81. Lilium Convallium album. C. B. Pin. p. 304. Tourn. Inft. p. 77. 

 Liliago. Valll. p. Ii6. Polygnatum bifolium fcapo florigero aphyllo. Hall. Hclv. p. 286. 

 Convallaria fcapo nudo. Linn, Flo. Lapp. n. 112. Hort. Cliff, p. 124. Sp. PI. p. 314. 

 Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. 317. 



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J Ex foliis cum cake fit pulcher, et durabilis, Color viridis. Hall. Loco fupra citat. 



