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63. Meadow Saxifrage (i) is plentiful inmoift meadows and paf- 

 tures. The flowers are in umbels, of a yellowifh-white. Each 

 flower confifts of five petals, almoft equal and entire. They are 

 hooked or turn inwards at the ends, which makes them appear 

 as if they were notched. The feed is thick -and large, with 

 threey?rz> fo remarkably deep, as to make it feem date, or winged. 

 Both it and the root are ufed for the gravel. It flowers in June 

 and July. 



64. BaJlard-Stone-ParJley (k). On ditch-banks. On a gravelly 

 bank by the road on the fouth-eaft fide of the bridge at Barives- 



ford ; alfo in the lane between the EJge-houfe and Cbol/erton-roa.d. 

 The flowers are white, in umbels. It flowers in July and Auguft. 

 the feed is very fmall, brown, and ftriated. It is put to the fame 

 ufe as the former. 



65. Tuberous efcuknt Earth-Nut (I). In dry mountainous paftures 

 and meadows. In the redtory-den at Simonburn, plentifully. The 



Tuber, 



(i) Siler alterum pratenfe. Dod. Pempt. p. 310. lent. Silaum quibufdam, flore luteolo. 

 I. R. iii. p. 170. Sefdi pratenfe. C. B. Pin. p. 162. Morif. Umbell. p. 17. Semen V. u. 

 Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 225. Dill. GifT. p. 120. Sefi'i pratenfe MONSPLIENSIUM. Hid. Oxon. iii. 

 p. 287. Saxifraga ANGLIC A facie fefili pratenfis. Ger. p. 890. emac. 1087. Raj. Hift. i. 

 p. 453. Sefili pratenfe noftras. Park. Theatr. p. 905. Saxifraga vulgaris, Offic. Dal. 

 Pharm. p. 127. Angelica pratenfis Apii folio. Tourn. Inft. p. 313. Peucedanum foliis pin- 

 natim divifis laciniatis, oppofitis. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 94. Rayen. lugdb. p. 98. Peuceda- 

 num pinnis duplicate pinnatis, foliis latiufculis, longe trifidis. Hall. Helv. p. 442. 



(k) Sifon, five Officinarum Amomum. /. B iii. p. 107. Raj. Hift. i. p. 443. Dot. 

 Monfp. 242. Sifon quod Amomum Officinis noftris. C. B. Pin. p. 154. Amomum, Offic. 

 Dal. Pharm. p. 124. Sium aromaticum, Sifon Officinarum. Tourn. Inft. p. 308. Raj. 

 Syn. iii. p. 21 1. Dill. GilT. p. 139. Bierh. Ind. A. p. 57. Sifon DIOSCORIDIS. Hift. Oxon. 

 iii. p. 283. Sifon. Mor. Umbell. p. 14. Sifon foliis pinnatis, umbellis eredb's. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 252. Rcyen. \ugdb. p. 105. 



(1) Bjlhocaftanum. Dod. Pempt. p. 433. Raj. Hift. i. p. 440. Syn. iii. p. 209. Morif. 

 Umbell. p. 5. Dal. Pharm. p. 123. Kulbocaftanum majus folio Apii. C. B. Pin. p. 162. 



Hift. 





