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s. Myrtle-leaved fweet Wilhiv, Cattle, or Dutch-Myrtle (o). On 

 moid heaths, and about mofles. On the heath between Haly- 

 Jlone and Harbottle-*&&*, in great abundance. On the banks of 

 Kimmsr lake, near Eg ling ham. At the former place it is in fuch 

 quantity, that it is like a little grove, perfumes the air at fome 

 diftance with its odours after a warm fhower of rain or the morn- 

 ing and evening-dews. The wood is fweet-fcentecl as well as the 

 bark*. It is ufed in fcenting linen. 



3. Rofe-Bay, Willow-Herb (p). Among the rocks and bufhes 

 under the Roman wall on the weft fide of Sheiving-J]jee!s, and by 

 Crag-Lake. On the banks of South Tyne, by Slaggiford, in Knarefdale, 

 plentifully. The root is woody, thick, and creeping, of a red- 

 difh-brown colour. The ftalk is from two to three feet high, 

 thick, fmooth, lightly furrowed, and branched, of a green co- 

 lour, tinged with red. The leaves are feffile, or clofe to the ftalk, 

 numerous, long, narrow, and pointed, of a lively green. The 

 flowers are large, on bending pedicles of an inch long in the 

 Alte or infertion of the leaves. The Calyx is compofed of four 

 oblong, pointed, purple fegments. The Corolla confifts of four 



(o) Rhus myrtifolia BELOICA. C. B. Pin. 414. 



Gale, frutex odoratus SEPTENTRIONALIUM. 1. B. i. 2. 224. Raj. Syn. 443. Myrica 

 foliis lanceolatis, fru&u ficco. Linn. Flo. Lapp. 373. Hort. Cliff. 445. Roy. lugdb. 527. 



* Gaule, a lowfruttx, fweet in burning. Lei. Itin. Vol. I. p. 39. 



(p) Chamasnerium Geftierl de Bry Floril. t. 42. line. Lyfimachia Chamasnerion dita 

 Jatifolia. C. B. Pin. p. 71. Hift. Oxen. u. p. 269. f. 3. t. 2. f. i. Lyfimachia fpeciofa 

 quibufdam ONAGRA dita, filiquofa. 7. B. 11. p. 906. Raj. Hift. p. 860. Syn. iii. p. 319. 

 Epilobium foliis lanceolatis integerrimis. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 146. Hort. Cliff, p. 145. 

 Royen. lugdb. p. 250. Fpilobium floribus difformibus piftillo declinato. Flo. Suec. p. no. 

 n. 304. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 399. Epilobium fpicatum,flore, difformi, foliorutn nervo emi- 

 ncnte, ore leviter ferrata. Hail. Helv. p. 408. 



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