OF TREES AND PLANTS. tg s $ 



Roman Wall, has been much fought for by myfelf and others, but 

 hitherto in vain. 



141. Perfoliate-grafs of Parnajfus (cj. In moid fandy places, and 

 about bogs. On the fea banks, called the Links, between Dm- 

 ridge and Crejpwell, compofed of drifted fea-fand. On the ftrand 

 at the eaft end of Bromley lake, plentifully. The root confifts of 

 fmall perennial fibres. The leaves are corcliform at the bafe, 

 and amplexicaule, pointed at the ends, of a pale green colour. 

 The ftalk is five or fix inches high, {lender, and angulated, with 

 a'fmgle leaf. The flower is moderately large, compofed of five 

 white petals, with numerous beautiful veins. The anthers are 

 elliptic and comprefTed, with fphserical yellow fummits. The 

 younger {lamina clofely embrace the ovary ; the older ones are 

 expanded. The ovary is conic and four-cornered, with four 

 valves, and a kind of hiatus on the apex, but no tube. The feed 

 is yellow, oblong and numerous, difpofed in a fingle capfule on 

 four placenta's, parted half-way by a membrane, without an 

 axis, us in the poppy. The calyx is compofed of four folioles, 

 fhorter than the flower. It flowers in Auguft and September. 

 The leaves and the roots were formerly commended in a decoc- 

 tion or infufion for difeafes of the eyes, and obftructions of the 

 liver, but are now difregarded. 



(c) Gramen Parnafllum. Dod. Pempt. p. 564. Gramen Parnaffium. Ger. emac. p. 840. 

 Raj. Hift. ii. p. 1049. Gramen Parnafli DODONJEO, quibufdam Hcpatiais Flos. I. B. iii. 

 p. 537. Gramen Parnafli, flore albo fimplici. C. B. Pin. p. 309. Parnaflia paluftris & 

 vulgaris. Tourn. Inft. p. 246. Martyn. Tourn. ii. p. 159, 160. Boerb. Ind. A. p. 243. 

 Dili. Gift", p. 172. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 355. Pyrola rotundifolia minor pal uflris flore unico 

 ampliore. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 505. Hepatica alba, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 236. Parnaflia. 

 Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 113. Flo. Lapp. n. 108. Flo. Suec. n. 252. Roy en. lugdb. p. 420. 

 Hall. Helv. p. 316. 



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