OF TREES AND PLANTS. 197 



hand of the road to Chipchace, in great abundance. I never ob- 

 ferved it in any other place with us. The root is compofcd of 

 tuberous or knobby fibres. The flalks are ftriated, fiftulous, and 

 naked to the top, from a 'foot to two feet high. The leaves are 

 long, pinnated, and ferrated at the edges. The flowers are in 

 an umbellated panicle ; each ufually compofed of fix orbiculated 

 petals, of a bright white, and often with a beautiful blufli of red. 

 The calyx in its maturity is reflex, and divided into fix parts. It 

 flowers in June and July. Under culture it grows to three feet 

 high, and is branched at the top. The root is aftringent, ape- 

 rient, and diuretic. It was formerly in good account for the hx- 

 morrhoids, but now rarely enters into ufe. 



85. Melilot (m). On the banks of the river Wan/beck, by a grind- 

 ftone-quarry, near Afoington. By the path to the bathing-well 

 at Cornhill, near a ftreamlet. The flalks are firm, fiftulous, and 

 branched, from two to four feet high. The leaves are ternate, 

 oblong, and ferrated at the edges, of a deep filming green, on 

 pedicles. The flowers are of a pale yellow, in a pendulous late- 



p. 710. Hift. p. ccxi. Hift. Oxon. p. ,322. C. B. Pin. p. 163. Tourn. Inft. p. 293. Martyn. 

 Tourn. i. p. 258-9. Boerh. Ind. A. p 43. Filipendula foliis pinnatis, foliolis uniformibus. 

 Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 191. Flo. Suec. n. 404. Royen. lugdb. p. 277. Filipendula foliis lon- 

 gis, anguftis, extreme trilobate, minimis pinnulis intermiftis. Hall. Helv. p. 307. 



(m) Melilotus. Rivin. t. 6. uptime. Trifolium odoratum five Melilotus. Dad. Pempt. 

 p. 567. uptime. Trifolium odoratum five Melilotus vulgaris, flore luteo. /. B. ii. p. 370. 

 Melilotus officinarum GERMANISE. C. B. Pin. p. 33 i. Tourn. Inft. p. 407. Martyn. 

 Tourn. ii. p. 1 12, 113. Rupf.Flo. Jen. p. 208. Melilotus vulgaris. Park. Theatr. p. 719. 

 Raj. Hift. p. i. p. 951. Syn. iii. p. 331. Melilotus, OiKc. Dal. Pharm. p. 226. Trifo- 

 lium odoratum f. Melilotus fruticofa lutea vulgaris vel Officinarum. Hift. Oxon. p. i6r. 

 Trifolium floribus racemofis leguminibus nudisdifpermis, cruile erelo. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 

 376. Flo. Suec. n. 619. Royen. lugdb. p. 381. Melilotus filiquis turgidis, brevibus, obf- 

 cure tranfverfim rugofis. Hall. Helv. p. 587. 



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