OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



green. The feed is conic, and ftriated, with an acute bafe, and 

 a round, plumofe crown. It flowers in Auguft. 



77. There is a VARIETY of it -with purpli/Jj Stalks, andfrm lightly 

 ferrated Leaves, of a fmooth pleafant green (zj, among the furz on 



Fourjtdne-hills, and among the rocks under the Roman wall by 

 Gv^-lake. 



It is aftringent and bitter. It is ufed by decoction for internal 

 bruifes, and outwardly in an ointment for wounds. For old pu- 

 trid fores and ulcers it is excellent, cleanfmg and healing them. 

 A great cure was obtained with it in an ulcer of the Urethra by 

 an ingenious foreigner, which is mentioned with refpect by the 

 learned Gottenberg^profeQbr, who calls it pulchram Sanationem *. 

 Three drams of it, powdered fine, and taken in a convenient li- 

 quid three times at due intervals in eight hours, helps pcrfons 

 afflicted with the flone, whom it fometimes has cured by bring- 

 ing it away f. 



78. Round, ivhite-floivered, Mount ain-Cud-weed, or Cat's-foot (a}. On 

 dry alpine heaths. At Temple-Green, near Wark, in Tynedale. On a 

 dry bank near Thocktington by the road to Watling-ftxezt. On Etall- 

 moor, by the road to the coal-work, plentifully. It grows after 



(z) Virga aurea alpina, laurinis rigidioribus foliis. Boccone. p. 33. t. 16. 

 * HALLER. loco citato. t Ibid. 



(a) Pilofella minor. Dod. Pempt. p. 68. Icon, interior. Cluf. Pann. p. 486. Hift. p. 330. 

 Pilofella minor quibufdam aliis Gnaphalii Genus. /. B. iii. p. 162. Gnaphalium monta- 

 num, flore rotundiore. C. B. Pin. p. 263. Elichryfum montanum, flore rotundiore can- 

 dido. Tourn. Inft. p. 453. Valll. Acl. 1719. p. 387. Boerb. Ind. A. p. 120. Dill. GifT. p. 

 60. Gnaphalium montanum folio rotundiore, purpurea et alba. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 89. 

 t. xi. f. 32. 



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