202 OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



plant _(., is frequent about the roots of trees in woods, and under 

 damp hedges. The leaves are verticillate and ftellate. The 

 flowers are milk-white, monopetalous, cut into four fegments, 

 and cruciform. The feed is hooked at the end, fet with hairs. 

 It flowers in May. It is ufcdby infufion for inflammations occa- 

 fioned by falls, and for wounds. The flowers in a conferve are 

 commended for paralytic complaints. 



95. Enchanter s Night/hade (yj is plentiful under trees on wood- 

 " banks. It is in great abundance by the OJlium of Gofton-burn, on 

 the north fide, near Wark, in Tynedule ; alfo at the weft end of the 

 rectory-den at Simonburn. The root confifts of white, jointed, fuccu- 

 lent fibres, fending forth new plants at diftances. The {talk is 

 round, {lender, and branched, from a foot to two feet high. The 

 leaves are in pairs, on long pedicles, lightly hairy, nearly cordiform, 

 fometimes indented at the edges, and fometimes not, and fome- 

 times undulated, of a pale green. The flowers are in pairs, in 

 the alas of the leaves, on pedicles, in thin fpikes. They are di- 

 petalous, fmall, and white, fometimes with a blufh of red. The 

 calyx is of a reddim-green. The feed is bilocular. It flowers 

 in May and June. The leaves are ufed in an ointment for the 

 haemorrhoids *. 



I have not obferved the leffer Enchanter s Night/hade, 'with ftnall^ 



cordifonn, and deeper-ferrated Leaves (z)^ to grow with us. 



96. Per- 



4. Sal fixus inter omnes alcalina vl excellit. Gmelin. A&. Petrop. v. p. 286. 



(y) HerbaDivi STEPHANI. Tabern. p. 730. Iconbona. Solanifolia, Ciraea difta major. 

 C. B. Pin. p. 168. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 617. Circaea LUTETIANA. Lob. p. 266. Icon floris 

 mala. Raj. Hift. i. p. 401. Syn. iii. p. 289. Tourn. Inft. Circasa Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 7. 

 Flo. Suec. n. 5. Royen. lugdb. p. 303. Hill. Nat. Hift. PL p. 164. Circaea major, foliis 

 longioribus, obiter crenatis. Hjll. Helv. p. 456. * Cbomel. 



(z) Circaea minima. Column. Ecphr. ii. p. 80. Tourn. Inft. Scheucbz. It. i. p. 34. Sala- 

 nifolia Circaea alpina. C. B. Pin. p. 168. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 617. Circaea Lutetiana minor. 



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