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it is of frequent ufe. To fheep it is very hurtful. 

 Goats, horfes, and horned cattle will not eat of it f. 



138. Round-leaved Winter-green (z). In woods, and upon heaths. 

 On the edge of the moor by Dilfigatf-'Hall, near Hexham. In the 

 Duke of Portland's wood, and in other woods, near that town. In 

 the bank of wood oppofite to the weft-end of the Recftory-den, at 

 Simonbuniy on the north-eaft fide of the freeftone quarry. 

 On the hedge-bank by the road up the hill to Simonburn-ca.tt.lQ, 

 near a fmall fpring. On the borders of Ram/h<rto-vrood t by the 

 way-fide, near fVark, in Tynedale, plentifully. The root conflfts 

 of white, fucculent, or bulbous fibres ; flender, divaricated, and 

 jointed, fending forth new plants at diftances. The leaves are 

 roundifh, with an obtufe point, firm and fmooth, on long pe- 

 dicles. The ftalk is five or fix inches high, or more, angulated, 

 and naked more than half way up. The flowers are in a thin 

 fpike, on fhort bending pedicles. They are campaniform, of a 

 bright white, fometimes with a blufh of red. 



It varies in the form and fize of the leaves. Thofe on the 

 moor by Dilligafe-ffall, are nearly orbiculated, thick, fucculent, 

 and of a gloily green, often two inches and a quarter long, on 

 pedicles of the fame length. At all the other places they are 



f Linn. Amnen. Acad. Vol. 2. p. 238. 



(z) Pyrola. Cam. Epir. p. 723. I.E. iii. p. 535. ex defcriptione, Raj. Hi ft. ii. p. 1233. 

 Syn. iii. p. 363. Ger. p. 330. e.-nac. p. 408. Dil'. Gi/T. p. 94. Dal. Piiarm. p. 237. 

 Pyrola rotundifolia major. C. B. Pin. p. 191. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 504. Tourn. Infr. p. 256. 

 Boerb. Ind. A. p. 278. Pyrola major et clatior foliis oblongis, piftillo florum incurvo. Rupp. 

 Flo. Jen. p. 236. Pyrola foliis fubrotundis, fcapo racemofo. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 162. 

 Pyrola ftaminibus adfcendentibus, piftillis declinatis. Flo. Suec, n. 330. Pyrola flaminibtis & 

 piftillo declinatis. Flo. Lapp. n. 169. Hall. Hclv. p.. 421. Pyrola tuba incurva. Hall. It. 

 Helv. 29. 



firm, 



