ftp OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



On the banks of Willmgton-burn, near the Half-way houfe, by the 

 Tynemouth-rozA. The root is fibrous. The ftalks are round and 

 robuft, from two to three feet high, and branched. The leaves 

 are long, fmooth, and lanceolated, of a dark green. The flowers 

 are in clufters on the tops of the flalks and branches, on feparate 

 pedicles. They are large, of a light purple, and fometimes 

 white, with a yellow difk. It flowers in Augufl and September. 

 Under culture it grows to four feet high, in a moift foil. It is 

 introduced into the borders of fome of the better gardens under 

 .the name of the Michaelmas-After, and the Michaelmas-Daifie. 



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11. We have thefmallSea-djter, or Starwort (a), plentifully by 

 the OJlium of JVillington-burn, near Sowden-psans. It is ufually 

 from a foot to a foot and a half high ; in flower at the fame time 

 with the former ; the flowers more tinged with purple. It holds 

 its diftinction of fize under culture ; and is a pretty plant in its 

 flowering ftate, in a moift foil. The feed of both thefe Afters is 

 winged with down. 



12. Purple flowered Fox-Glove (bj. Among the rocks under the 

 Roman wall by Cnz^-lake, in great abundance. On Four/tone-hills, 



Ilift. p. 270. After caeruleus glaber, littoreus, pinguis, Tripolium majus didus. Hift. 

 Oxon. iii. p. 121. After maritimus paluftris, cseruleus falicis folio. Tourn. Inft. p. 483. 

 After foliis lanceolatis integerrimis glabris, ram is inaequatis, floiibus corymbofis. Linn. Flo. 

 Suec. p. 250. n. 697. Royen. lugdb. p. 168. 



(a) Tripolium (majus et) minus. /. B. ii. p. 1064. After maritimus casruleus minor. 

 Raj. Syn. p. 175. 



(b) Digitalis purpurea. Dod. Pempt. p. 169. /. B. ii. p. 812. Raj. Hift. i. p. 767. Syn. 

 iii. p. 283. Tourn. Inft. p. 165. Dill. GifT. 145. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 199. Martyn. Tourn. 

 p. i. 227. Digitalis, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 195. Digitalis purpurea folio afpero. C, B. 

 Pin. p. 243. Bocrk. Ind. A. p. 228. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 478. Digitalis foliis calycinis ova- 

 tis acuminatis. Royen. lugdb. p. 292. Hall. Helv. p. 616. 



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