aio OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



Betony (q) is ufually gathered and fold for it to the fhops by the 

 common herbarifts. 



no. Great Bijlort, or Snakeiveed (r). In moifl meadows, by wa- 

 ters. In a meadow below Almvick-ca&le, on the banks of the river 

 Aln, oppofice [aDen-wick-mill, plentifully. In an ifland in the river 

 Tyne below Ncivburn, called the King's Meadow. The root is cy- 

 lindric, varioufly and uncertainly contorted, of a reddifh-brown 

 without, and red within. The bottom-leaves are on long pedi- 

 cles, edged with fmall foliaceous appendages ; the upper ones 

 narrow, and amplexicaule. They are of a deep green on the 

 upper part, and whitifh underneath ; fmooth or rugofe at the 

 .edges, according to the age or fize of the plant. The ftalk is 

 round, flender, and jointed, from a foot to two feet high. The 

 flowers are in a fhort, thick fpike, ufually of a rofe-colour, with 

 a filvery fcale under each, on a pedicle, and monopetalous, cut 

 into four or five ovated moderately pointed fegments. It flowers 

 in June and July. The root is a very great aftringent, and com- 

 fy) Veronica pratenfis. Dod. I. 41. bene. Veronica minor ferpyllifolia. Lob. Icon. p. 472. 

 Veronica femina quibufdam aliis BETONICAPAULI. 7. B. iii. p. 285. cum bona defcriptione 

 & icone. Veronica pratenfis ferpyllifolia. C. B. Pin. p. 247. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 319. 

 Tourn. Inft. Veronica pratenfis minor. Park. Tbeatr. p. 551. Raj. Hift. p. 848. Syn. 

 iii. p. 279. Veronica foliis inferioribus- oppofitis ovatis fuperioribus alternis lanccolatis, 

 floribus folitariis. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 9. Rcyen. lugdb. p. 302. Veronica foliis ovatis, 

 raro crenatis, floribus longe fpicatis, glabris, fruftu bifido. Hall. Helv. p. 533.- 



(r] Biftorta. Cam. Epit. p. 683. Icon bona. D:d. Pempt. p. 33. & de purg. p. 40. Bif- 

 torta major. Cluf. Hift. p. Ixix. Ger. p. 322. emac, p. 399. Raj. Hift. i. p. 186. Syn. iii. 

 p. 147. Biftorta major rugofioribus foliis. I. B. iii. p. 538. Dill. Gift", p. 89. Biftorta ra- 

 dice minus intorta. C. B. Pin. p. 192. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 585. Tourn. Inft. p. 511. Boerh. Ind. 

 A. ii. p. 86. Biftoita foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 150. Hort. 

 Upf. 95. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 406. Biftorta foliis imis appendkulatir, femine triquctro. 

 Hall. Helv. p. 178. 



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