OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



33. We have Wood-Sage (zj, in great abundance about fhadowy 

 rocks, and on the borders of woods. It is fome times gathered 

 and fold by the common herbarifts for the true Scordium, to which 

 it is accounted no bad Succedaneum. It is an uncommon plant in 

 fome parts of England, efpecially in Cambridge/hire. 



34. Englifh Sea Wormwood ( a) . On a projecting, cavernous fea- 

 rock near Hoivick, called Rumble-Churn, from the noife of the cur- 

 rents under it. At Holy I/land, where Dr. Turner obferved it *. It 

 is commended as a plant of extraordinary virtues, yielding an 

 aromatic oil, a volatile and fixed fait, of great ufe in hyfleric, 

 hypocondriac, and hydropic cafes f. Infufed in ale, it gives it ant 

 aromatic flavour, and is good for the fcurvy and dropfy, and for 

 all difeafes caufed by the coldnefs of the liver, or want of 

 digeflion J. 



Oxon. iii. p. 414. Cattaria major vulgaris. Tourn. Inft. p. 202. Martyn. Tourn. p. 159. 

 Boerb. Ind. A. p. 174. Nepeta, Mentha Cattaria, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 150. Nepeta 

 floribus interrupte fpicatis, pedunculatis. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 310. Flo. Suec. n. 486. 

 Roynt. lugdb. p. 316. Cattaria foliis cordatis, petiolatis, venicillis fpicatis. Hall. Helv. 

 p. 649. 



(z) Scorodonia. Cordl Hift. p. 91. Scorodonia f. Salvia agreftis. Raj. Hift. p. 576. 

 Syn. iii. p. 247. Scorodotis f. Scordium foliis Salviae. /. B. iii. p. 293. Scordium alte- 

 rum f. Salvia agreftis. C.^B. Pin. 247. Boerb. Ind. A. p. 183. Chamaedris elatior Salviaj 

 folio, flore ochroleucho. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 423. Chamsedris fruticofa, fylveftris Meliflse 

 folio. Tourn. Inft. p. 205. Martyn. Tourn. p. 171. Teucrium foliis cordatis crenatis 

 petiolatis fpicis laxis fecundis. Linn. Cliff, p. 301. Royen. lugdb. p. 306. Chamxdris foliis 

 cordatis, fcapis florigeris nudis, fpicatis longiffimis. Hall. Helv. p. 632. 



(a) Abfinthium marinum album. Ger. p. 940. emac. p. 1099. &"] Hift. i. p. 3*0. 

 Syn. iii. p. 188. Boerh. Ind. A. p. 126. Abilmhium Seriphium. f. marinum Anglicum. 

 Park. Theatr. p. 102. Abfinthium Seriphium .Belgicum. C. B. Pin. p 139. I. B. iii. 

 p. 178. Town. Inft. p. 458. Hift. Oxon. iii. 9. Abfinthium Seriphium. Ofiic. Dal. Pharm. 

 99. Artemifia foliis compofitis multifidis tomentofis, ramis floriferis nutantibus. Linn. Flo. 

 Suec. p. 241. n. 671. 



* Hift. PI. f Nat. Hift. of Lancafhire, p. 94. % Dr. Beal. Ph. Tr. No. 124. 



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