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in the liver, the animalcules prey ing it pon it till it can no longer 

 perform its natural functions, and death enfues. 



136. Butter-ivort, or York/hire Sanick (x). On the dripping 

 banks of alpine brooks, and about bogs, plentifully. The root 

 is a fmall imbricated or fcaly bulb. It fends forth fometimes one, 

 and fometimes two or three flalks, from two to four or five inches 

 high, {lender and fucculent. The leaves are from an inch to 

 two inches long, difpofed on the ground in the form of a circle. 

 They are of a yellowifli-green, and in the mod fultry weather 

 are covered with a mining pinguid fluid. The flower is on the 

 ,top of the ftalk, and nutant, of a violet-colour. 



137. There is a variety of it in mountainous boggy meadows, 

 with a very large flower, of a duller purple, and a remarkable 

 long {pur (y). 



It is a cathartic. In Parkinfon's time, it was the phyfic of the 

 poorer fort of people in Wales, made into a fyrup *. In the Lap- 



Ros foils minor f. rotundifolius. Barrel. Icon. p. 251. n. i. Drofera fcapis radicatis, foliis 

 .orbiculatis. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 105. Flo. Suec. n. 257. Rcyen. lugdb. p. 417. Rorella 

 caule fimplici, foliis rotundis, retufis. Hall. Helv. p. 372. 



(x) Pinguicola. Cluf. p. 310. Pann. p. 360. cum bona Icone. Pinguicola GESNERI. 

 /. B. iii. p. 546. Raj. Hift. p. 751. Syn. iii. p. 289. Tourn. Inft. Sanicula montana, 

 flore calcari donata. C. B. Pin. p. 243. Pinguicola, f. Sanicula EBORACENSIS. Park. 

 Theatr. p. 532. bene. Viola paluftris, Pinguicola. Hift. Oxon. ii. p. 477. Pinguicola 

 nedario eylindraico longitudine petali. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. ir. Flo Suec. n. 21. Sp. 

 PI. 17. Royen. lugdb. p. 304. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 168. Pinguicola calcare gracili, 

 cylindrico, violaceo flore. Hall. Helv. p. 6 u, 612. 



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(y) Pinguicola flore amplo, purpureo, calcare longiflimo. Raj. Hift. p. 752. Tourn. Inft. 

 a. Major. Hall. Helv. p. 612. 



* Park. Theatr. p. 534. 



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