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OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



ral feries, in fpikes. It flowers in July and Auguft. On the warm 

 fertile banks of the Wansbeck, it is robuft, tall, and thriving. 

 B} the ftreamlet at Cornhill, it is flender, ftiort, and meager, owing 

 to the fterility and coldnefs of the foil. 



It is an acrid, bitter plant, but of no difagreeable odour. The 

 diftiiled water of the flowers being mixed with other aromatic 

 waters, has the remarkable property not only of retaining, but 

 of increafing their fcent *. It is ufed in the fweet-fcented water 

 at Paris, called Eau de Cordn'e'-\ t The flowers give eafe, by infu- 

 fion, in cholic-pains, and inflammations of the bowels :. The 

 leaves are in moil frequent ufe as an emollient in external ap- 

 plications, efpecially for painful tumours, and wounds difficult 



to heal. 



*o~v-~' '>['' : 



86. Strawberry-Trefoil (tl) t On the banks of Hafypike-lake, plenti- 

 fully. 



87. Annual, Hare s-foot-Trefoil (o) . On dry hedge-banks, and barren 

 places. On an old hedge made up of earth and flone by the 



road 



Cafalpinus. 



Tournfort. Geffcroi. iii. p. 836. 



J Chomel. 



(n) Trifolium fragiferumnoftras purpureum folio oblongo. Hid. Oxon. ii. p. 144. t. 13. f. 2. 

 Raj. Syn. iii. p. 33. Tourn. Inft. Martyn. Tourn. ii. p. 313. Trifolium fragiferurr. Raj. Cant. 

 p. 166. (a quo, et Martyno^ diftinguitur a Frifico CLUSII). Trifolium fpicis fubovatis, calyci- 

 bus inflatis, dorfo gibbis. Linn. Hort. ClifF. p. 373. Rayen. lugdb. p. 378. Hall. Helv. 

 p. 582. 



(a) Lagopus. Dod. Pempt. p. 577. Flo. "Jen. p. 206. Lagopus, PES LEPORIS. Lob. 

 Icon. ii. p. 39. Lagopus vulgaris. Park. Theatr. p. 1107. Raj. Hift. i. p. 948. Lago- 

 pu?, PES LEPORINUS, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 226. Lagopus trifolius quorundam. /. B. ii. 

 p. 377. Trifolium arvenfe, humile, fpicatum, five Lagopus. C. B. Pin. p. 328. Tourn. 

 Inft. p. 405. Martyn. Tourn. ii. p. 314. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 330. Dill. Gifs. p. 99. Boerb. 



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