i 9 6 OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



alfo on the bank of the Tweed* between Cornhill and Car ham. It is 

 alfo frequent. in many other places, about hedges. It flowers in 

 June and July. It is bitter, aromatic, and a vermifuge. A dram 

 of the dried flowers by infufion is commended for the hyfterics. 

 It promotes perfpiration, and flrengthens the bowels *. The 

 leaves bruifed, and applied to the head at night on going to bed, 

 eafes and comforts the body after violent fatigues f. Four ounces 

 of the juice is ufed for intermitting fevers |. 



83. Feverfew fi), a valuable Uterine, is plentiful among the 

 rocks by Tecket-wa.ter-fa.lL It ufed formerly to be feen only in 

 gardens ; from which it has likely by fome means efcaped. It 

 fometimes produces plants with double flowers, fpontaneoufly (k)\ 

 which are frequent in gardens. 



84. Filipendula^ or Dropivort (I). In a pafture called the Crag- 

 clofe, a quarter of a mile north from Barivesford, on the right 



hand 



* Fuh, Gherli Oflerv. p. 58. f Boccone Oflerv. p. 80. J Ptntedra. 



(i) Febrifuga. Dorflen, p. 121. Parthenium feu Matricaria. Mattb. p. 902. Matricaria 

 Dod. Pempt. p. 35. Ger. p. 526. tmac. p. 652. Raj. Hift. i. p. 357. Syn. iii. p. 93. 

 Matricaria vulgaris five fativa. C. B. Pin. p. 133. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 32. Tourn. Inft. 

 p. 493. Va.lL p. 365. Boerb. Ind. A. p. no. DHL Giflf. p. 140. Matricaria vulgo minus 

 Parthenium. 7. B. iii. p. 129. Matricaria Officinarum, ACT. REG. Par. A. 1720. 

 Matricaria, Parthenium, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 97. Matricaria foliis compofitis planis, 

 foliolis ovatis incifis, pedunculis ramofis. Linn. Hort. ClirF. p. 416. Royen. lugdb. p. 173. 

 Matricaria foliis, pinnatis, pinnis latis, incifis, femiflofculis breviffimis. Hall. Helv. p. 719. 



(k) Matricaria flore pleno. C. B. Pin. p. 134. Parthenium pleno five polyphyllo flore. 

 Cif. Pann. & Hift. 



(I) Filipendula. Mattb. p. 865. Cam. Epit. p. 608. bene. Dod. Pempt. p. 56. 7. B. iii 

 p. 189. Ger. p. 900. tmac. p. 1058. Raj. Syn. i. p. 623. Syn. iii. p. 259. Morif. Umbel), 

 p. 3^. Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 129. Dal. Pharm. p. 163. Filipendula vulgaris. Cluf. Pana. 



p. 710. 



