OF TREES AND PLANTS. 217 



den, at the eaft end. It flowers in July and Auguft. It is alfo a 

 variety of the former, and differs from it only by its low ftature, 

 buminefs, and brightnefs of its flowers. The common fort is 

 ufed with great commendations in intermitting fevers, by in- 

 fufing a handful of the tops of it in white wine, or giving a 

 dram of the extract of it with as much powder of Jefuits bark, 

 when there are obftructions .in the bowels, which cures without 

 any return *. It is ufed by infufion in a glafs of white wine as a 

 pectoral, to give appetite, and for diforders occafioned by worms, 

 but it is not an agreeable draught, which makes an extract from 

 it to be commonly preferred. 



124. Telloiv Centaury (k) is frequent in the dry hilly paftures 

 about a quarter of a mile weft from Honeyclugh-crzg, near Chefter- 

 wood and Whinetly Y on South Tyne. It flowers in Auguft. The 

 flowers contain a yellow fluid which by diftillation yields an oil 

 like a refmous balfam, like that mentioned of St. Johns-"worf\. 



125. Blue-fouuere d annual, autumnal Gentian, or Felivort (I). In dry 

 mountainous paftures. In Chz^-clofe, near Burivesford, in great 

 abundance. It flowers in September. 



126. There 



* MARTTN. 



(k) Centaurium luteutn. Cluf. Hifp. p. 356. Cam. Epit. p. 427. lent. Centaurium. 

 luteum. I. B. iii. p. 355. Centaureum luteum perfoliatum. C. B. Pin. p. 278. Raj. 

 Hift. p. 1093. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 565. Tourn. Inft. Martyn. Tourn. i. p. 164. Gentiana 

 caule dichotomo, foliis connatis, corollis oftofidis. Linn. Ho;t. Cliff, p. 81. Royen. lugdb. 

 p. 433. Hall. Helv. p. 480. 



f LISTER apud LAWTHORP. ii. p. 638. DERHAM. in Epift. ad RAI. 



(1) Gentiana. viii. Cluf. Pann. p. 289. five fugax ii. Hift. p. 315. Gentiana pratenfis 

 flore lanuginofo. C. B. Pin. p. 188. Tourn. Inft. p. 81. DHL GifT. p. 172. Raj. Syn.: 

 iii. p. 275. Scheuchz. Itin. iv. p. 334. Gentiana annua foliis centaurii minoris. Martyn. \ 



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