ir>o OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



counties, is only obferved to grow with us in the fame place with 

 the former. The italk is ufually from a foot to two feet in length, 

 and branched. The leaves are foft, very hairy, with a broad 

 nerve, and pinnules at diftances, long, lanceolated, and mode- 

 rately cut, or laciniated, not prickly. It flowers in June and 

 July. The flowers are of a lively purple. The outer florets are 

 difpofed in the form of a radiated circle. The calyx is imbricat- 

 ed, and armed with rigid fpines. The feed is cordiform. It is 

 ufed with fuccefs at Paris for urinary obftructions ; one dram in- 

 fufed in a glafs of white wine. The exterior Cortex of the root, 

 gathered about the end of September, dried in the made, and 

 finely powdered, is likewife ufed there in the fame manner, and 

 in the fame quantity, for an intermitting fever, on the approach 

 of the fit *. The root was formerly ufed by other foreigners as a 

 Jucccdancum to the Eringo-xoot f. 



75. T\\o, purple-jloivered Saw-wort (x), is fcarce with us. A plant 

 of it was found at Weft-Dibden, near Hexham, with the Chamtcrubus ; 



rum More purpurafcente. Vaill. p. 209. Centaurea calycibus, tubulato-rpinofis, feflilibus, 

 faliis lincaribus, pinnatifidis. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 423. Rr.ycn. lugub. p. 140. Calcitrapa 

 foiiis laxe pinnatis, mollibus, capitulis ad latcracar.'is fcffilibus. Ha'l. rlclv. p. 683. 



* Tournefort. Martyn. f Cainerarius. 



(x) Serratula. Matth. p. 945. Cam. Epit. p. 682. Dad. Pcmpt. p. 42. C. B. Pin. p. 235. 

 /. B. iii. p. 23. Raj. Hift. i. p. 331. S>n. iii. p. 23. Dill. G,iT. p 168. Bocrb. hid. A. p. 

 14.4. Dal. Pharm. p. ic8. Serra'ula MATTHIOLI. Cluf. Pann. 547. Mi ft. p. viii. ex DOD. 

 Serratula tinfloria i. Tabcrn. 156. Foliis omnibus intcgris. Serracula tin^oria ii. ejufd. p. 

 175. Foliis inferhribus integris, fuptrioribus incifts. Serratula tinctoria iii. ejulU. foliis om- 

 nibus ineifts. Serrafjla purpurea. Gcr. p. 576. emac. p. 713. Serratula vulgaris foliis laci- 

 ni:itis. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 133. Serratula, vu'garis facie, foliis integrh. Ejufd. ibid. Jacea 

 nemorenfis, quas Serratula vulgo. Tourn. Inft. p. 4.14. Serratula foliis pinnatifidis, lacinia 

 tcrminatrice maxima. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 391. Flo. Stiec. n. 660. Hort. Upf. 249. Royen. 

 lugdb. p. 143. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 5*7. Carduus inermis, fuliis glabiis, imis ovatis, 

 fupcrioribus ad bafm pinnatis. Hall. Htrlv. p. 678. 



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