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pure white ; and the latter male-flowers, pretty large, of a bright 

 white, with a blufh of red ; in neat umbels. They flower in 

 May and June. The laft is plentiful in a bog under bufhes near 

 the Ojllum of the brook below Nunwick, from five to nine inches 

 high ; the finl in another by the OJlium of the brook at TVark,-on 

 the fouth fide, from nine to fourteen inches high. Culture 

 makes no alteration in them. 



60. Great Burnet Saxifrage (J). In dry paflures, and on banks 

 about hedges. Under the hedges at Fair-Jlww and Long-Rigge, 

 near Nunivick. On a gravelly bank, on the north-eaft fide of the 

 bridge at Bar-wesford^ near Chipchace. The root is oblong, white, 

 and acrid. The ftalk is round, floated, fiftulous, and branched, 

 two feet high. The leaves are fimply pinnated, each compofed 

 of a double row of ovated, ferrated foliola, on pedicles, joined 

 to a middle rib, with an odd leaf at the end. The flowers are 

 white, in umbels, moderately large. It flowers in June and July. 

 It is of an acrid, but not unpleafant, taflc. It is much com- 

 mended as a pectoral or fcomachic by the Germans, efpecially the 

 followers of Stahl, and, according to Halkr *, defervedly. 



(f) Saxifraga magna. Dad. Pempt. p. 315. Purg. p. 494. cam bona Icon;. Piaipinella 

 Saxifraga. Mattb. p. 1032. Cam. Epit. p. 775. bene. Ger. p. 887. iinac. p. 1044.. Raj. 

 Hill. i. p. 445. Syn. iii. p. 213. Dal. Pharm. Tragofelinum majii^, Pimpinella major. 

 Tabirn. p. 88. btne. Saxfraga hirfma major. I. B. iii. p. 109. Park. Theatr. p. 04.-. 

 Pimpinella Saxifraga major umbella Candida. C. B. Pin. p. 109. Marif. Umbell. p. 13. 

 t. 5. cum folio here depiflo. Hilt. Oxin. iii. p. 284. Ru t 'j>. Flo. Jen. p. 230. Tragofeli- 

 num majus umbella Candida. Tourn. Inft. p. 309. Bserh. Ind. A. p. 54. Pimpinella major 

 Germanica foliis magis incifis. Batr. Icon. p. 243. Pimpinella. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 106. 

 Pimp'nclla foliis pinnatis : folio! is radicalibus fubrotundis ; fummis linearibus. Sp. PI. 263. 

 Pimpinella fo'iolis fubrotundis. Flo. Suec. p. 86. n. 246. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 348. Tra- 

 gofelinum pinnis femik'batis, circurnftrratis. Hall. Helv. p. 428. 



* Ibid. 



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