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7. The Hooded Wilfav-IIcrb ft), is not unfrequent on ditch- 

 banks, and moift fhady places, about Hexham. The ftalks are 

 four-cornered, very much branched, and of a weak texture. The 

 leaves are on pedicles, and crenated. The flowers are two in 

 number in the alx of the leaves, rifmg erect with a ventricofe 

 tube from the calyx, and galeated, of a bluilh-purple. The 

 leaves are of a bitter tafte, and have the fcent of garlic. It is 

 aftringent, and was formerly ufed for wounds and haemorrhages, 

 but is now little regarded. It flowers at the fame time with the 

 other willow-herbs, in July and AugufL 



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8. The yellow Willow-herb, or Loofejlrife (u). In ihadowy rrioift 

 meadows, and by waters. By the fide of the pond at the fouth- 

 \veil end of Wide-haugh, near Dilfton, by the road to Hex ham, fpar- 

 ingly. On the banks of North Tyne at Low Park-End, near Nun- 

 ivick, in great abundance. The root is fibrous and creeping, 

 fending forth new plants at diftances. The ilalk is round, firm, 

 lightly hairy, with a blufh of red towards the bafe, branched at 



(t) Judaicae herbae alia fpecies. Dad. Pernpt. p. 93. lene. Lyfimachia caerulea galericu- 

 lata feu gratiola cserulea. C. B. Pin. p. 246. Raj.HiA. i. p. 572. Tertianaria aliis Lyfi- 

 machia galericulata. 7. B. iii. p. 435. Scutellaria paluftris repens cserulea. Hift. Oxon. iii. 

 p. 416. Scutellaria* Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 155. Cafiida paluftris vulgatior flore csruleo. 

 Tourn. Inft. p. 182. Martyn. Tourn. p. 157. Dill. Gift p. 117. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 18. 

 Raj. Syn. iii. p. 244. Scutellaria foliis cordato-lanceolatis crenatis. Linn. Flo. Lapp. p. 239. 

 Hort. Cliff, p. 316. Royen. lugdb. p. 310. Caffida foliis cordatis, longe decrefcentibus, fer- 

 ratis, floribus gemellis. Hall. Helv. p. 635. 



(u) Lyfimachium legitimum. Dod. Pempt. p. 84. Lyfimachia lutea major. C. B. Pin. 

 p. 245. Lyfimachia lutea. /. B. ii. 901. Raj. Hift. ii. p. 1021, Syn. iii. p. 282. Lyfi- 

 machia, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. r88. Lyfimachia foliis lanceolatis, racemo compofito ter- 

 minatrice. Linn. Virid. Cliff, p. 415. Flo. Suec. n. 166. Royen. 1 ivJb. p. 416, Lyfima- 

 chia foliis lanceolatis, corymbo terminatrice. Flo. Lapp. n. 8r. K.irt Cliff. r 

 chia foliis ovato lanceolatis, floribus ad fumnios ramos fpicatis. Hall. Helv. ^ 



