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44. Common Eryngo(l). Between the G/rt/}-houfes and Dent's Hole, 

 near Neivcaflle. The root it about a foot in length, of the thick-' 

 nefs of one's finger. The radical leaves are fix or eight inches 

 long, deeply divided, as it were, into fo many lobes, ferrated at 

 the edges, the denticles ending in very fiiarp prickles. The 

 ftalk is ftriated, round, tough, and branched, ufually two feet 

 high, with alternate amplexicaule leaves like the radical ones, 

 of a bluim-green. The flowers are fmall, in round ifli umbells 

 on the tops of the ftalks and branches ; each flower confiding of 

 five whitifh petals ; and each petal, for its fecurity, guarded by 

 a fharp prickle. The root candied with fugar, and dried, is ufed 

 as a pectoral by decoction. It is a fcarce plant in moil counties,, 

 notwithstanding its name. 



45. Sampire (m). On the fea-rocks near Alnmouth, plentifully. The 

 root is oblong, and of an aromatic tafte. The radical leaves are 

 large, divided into numerous oblong, narrow, pointed, and thick 

 fegments, of a deep green, fucculent, and of a faltifh tafte. The 

 ftalk is ten inches high or more, round, thick, and very much 

 branched. The flowers are yellow, in large umbels. It is ufed 

 as a table-pickle. .The ingenious Mr. Evelyn admired it as a fallad. 



46. Thrift, or Sea-GilliJlo'wer (n). At DunJlonbrougb-caRle, on, the 

 fea-banks, where there are great varieties of it j the moil beau- 

 tiful: 



(I) Eryngium montanum. Matth. p. 679. Eryngium campeftre. Dod. Pempt. p. 730. 

 Eryngium vulgare. Cluf. Pann. p. 668. C. B. Pin. p. 386. I. B. iii. p. 85. Raj. Hift. iii. 

 p. 384. Syn. p. 222. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 165. Tourn. Inft. p. 327. Rupp. Flor. Jen. p. 222. 

 Boerb. Ind. A. p. 134. Dal. Pharm. p. 132. Eryngium ramofiflimum, pinnis foliorum ala- 

 tis, pinnatifque. Hall. Helv. p. 415. 



(m) Crithmum marinum. Raj. Hift. i. p. 457. Syn. iii. p. 217. 



(n) Armerius montanus tenuifolius major. Cluf. Hift. i. p. 287. Gramen polyanthemum 

 majus. Dod. Pempt. p. 564. Caryophyllus montanus major fiore globofo. C. B. Pin. p. 



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