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and able botanift not to be common in England f , is plentiful in a 

 flood-foil under bufhes on the banks of North Tyne, near Nunivick 

 and Chipchace ; and many other places. The dairy-women in the 

 neighbourhood ufe it for fmoothing their milk-veflels. It thrives 

 very well under culture in river-fand, mixt with a little gravel. 



163. Hare 1 s-Tail Ruflj ( c ) , grateful tofheep, and fattening them, 

 called by the fhepherds Mofs-crops, is plentiful in mountainous 

 mofles. The leaves in the fpring are of a deep and beautiful 

 red. 



164. Great Cat 's-Tail, or Reed-mace (d)> is not imfrequent in 

 flow-running waters and ponds. It is in a pond at Ainivtck-ba.nk- 



footj 



caule fimpliciffimo, afpero, vaginis non laciniatis. Hall. Helv. p. 143. fequenti defcrip- 

 tione. 



" Caulcs cubitales et ultra, abfque foliis aut ramis. Vaginae longe minimae, abfque den- 

 " tlculis, breviffimis apicibus nigris notataa. Caulis fulcatus in eminentibus Jugis denies 

 *' habet ad lentem vitream facile confpicuos, pene uti Cyperoidea gramina, ut inftar linze 

 " metalla poliat." 



f MARTYN. 



(c) Juncus alpinus cum cauda leporina. /. B. iii. p. 514. Raj. Hift. ii. p. 1306- 

 Stbeuchz It. t. p. 41. Juncus alpinus capitulo lanuginofo, f. SCH^NOLAGUROS. C. B. Pin. 

 j>. 2. Prodr. p. 7. Scheucbz. Hid. Gram. p. 302. t. 7. f. i, 2, 3. & Agroft. Prodr. 26. t. 7. 

 Gratnen junceum lanatum aherjm DANICUM. Park. Theatr. p. 1271. Hift. Oxon. iii. 

 p. 224. t 9. f. 6. Rt gramen junceum f. Juncus alpinus capitulo lanuginofo. Hift. Own. 

 ib. Icon, ex C. B. Li-nagroftis alpina major, capitulo fmgulari minori. Miibil. Nov. Gen. 

 PI. p. 54. Linagroftis capite fmgulari ALOPECUROIDES. Valll. p. 117. Linagroftis fuliis 

 teretibus, fpica unica fubrotunda. Hall. Helv. p. 250. Eiiophorum culmis teretibus vagi- 

 natis, fpica membranacea. Linn. Flo. Suec. n. 45. Eriophorum fpica lanis involuta Act. Upf. 

 1736. p. 47. Eriophorum fpica ere<Sta, cauk tereti. Flo. Lapp. n. 23. Riyen. lugdb. p. 51. 



(d) Typha. Mattb. p. 863. Cam. Epit. p. 607. Ger. p 42. emac. p. 46. Raj. Hift. 

 ii. p. 1312. Syn. iii. p. 436. Dal, Pimm. p. 259. Linn, Hort. Cliff, p. 439. Flo. Suec. 



n. 772. 



