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2}. Blue-flo-wered -Columbine (n) In Will ing ton-d.cn, by the path to 

 the village from Walls-End, plentifully. In Dillon park, near Hex- 

 ham. With its blue flowers the Jellies at great tables ufed antiently 

 to be coloured. They were thus ferved up at the royal entertain- 

 ment of the renowned King Henry V. on his wedding-day "*. 



24. Great tufted Wood-Vetch, ivith variegated, fiveet-fccnted 

 (oj. In the recTiory-wood by the brook at Simwiburn; alfo in the 

 banks of wood on both fides of Shnonburn-czRlc, plentifully. It 

 is remarkable for its lively verdure, and numerous clutters of 

 pendulous flowers, elegantly variegated with purple and white ; 

 after a warm gentle mower diffufmg a moil delightful fragrance ; 

 by the help of a bufli or a tree growing to the height of feven 

 or eight feet. Extremes of rain and fhade are equally enemies 

 to its beauty and fcent, appearing then to a ftranger as a diffe- 

 rent fpecies, tetro Odore, as deferibed by Plukinet f, in which (late 

 he muft have obferved it, and not in its perfection. It makes a 

 fine mew under culture, planted againft a tree, running up to a 

 great height with its climbers. The feeds, whether rifmg fpon- 



(n) Ifopyrum DIOSCORIDI?. Column. Phyt. p. I. t. i. Icon pulchra. Aquilegia. 

 Dirflen. p. 3. b. bent. Aquilegia flore fimplici. I. B. iii. p. 484. Raj. Hift. p. 706. Syn. 

 iii. p. 2/'.; Aquilegia Mvsftris. C. B. Pin. p. 144. Tourn. Inft. p. 428. Hift. Oxen. iii. 

 p. 457. j> '. Gift", p. 82. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 131. Marlyn. Tourn. i. p. 71. Aquilegia, 

 Offic. Dal. Pnarm. p 180. Aquilegia. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p, 215. Flo. Suec. n. 443. 

 Royen. lugdb. ^. 182. Aquilegia fbliis rotunde lobatis. Hall. Hclv. p. 310. 



* Hoi. Chron. Vol. 2. p. 579. 



(o) Vicia perennis mul'.iflora, majore floVe ex csruleo et albido mixtis. Magn. bot. app. 

 p. 307. Cracca. fylvr.tica rotundifolin, flonbus ex albo variis. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 212. 

 Vicia fpicata multiflora maxima. Rdj. Hift. p. 903. Syn. iii. p. 323. Vicia pedunculis 

 multifioris, ftipulis crenatis. Roycn. lugdb. p. 365. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 777. Vicia foliis 

 ovatis, filiquif, racemofis pendulis. Hall, ilelv. p. 599, 6co, 



f Pluk. Phyt. 71. et f. i. 



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