PENTANDEIA PENTAGYNIA. 73 



before, and the assertion is, in a great measure, confirmed 

 by SYDENHAM. It has fallen into disuse. Elder flowers 

 make an agreeable light wine, and they are peculiarly ex- 

 cellent for giving flavour to white currant wine, being 

 added at the time of a slight fermentation, which takes 

 place in April of the year following that of the manufac- 

 ture. -NEILL. The berries are esteemed by the good 

 housewives of the south for making elder-rob, good for 

 qninzies, colds, and so forth ; and the village quack still 

 works wonders with his elder salve. The cluster of 

 flower-buds is said to make a delicious pickle to eat with 

 boiled mutton. 



IV. TETRAGYNIA. 

 109. PARNASSIA. 



1. P. palustris, stem 1 -flowered; leaves heart-shaped; flowers 

 white, with pellucid veins ; bristles of each nectary numerous. 

 Grass of Parnassus. 



Hob. " Mr William Broad observed it to grow plentifully 

 in the Castle-fields of Berwicke-vpon-Tweed," Ge- 

 rarde ; and there it still grows. Holy Island Links, 

 Winch. Common in this neighbourhood, particularly 

 on moors, making glad the desert and the waste. Aug. 

 Sept. I/. 





V. PENTAGYNIA. 



110. STATICE. 



1. S. Armeria, leaves linear; stalks simple, bearing a round 

 head of flowers ; awns of the calyx minute. Thrift. 

 Hab. The sea-shore, common. July, Aug. I/. 



The flowers are usually rose-coloured, but a white variety 

 grows in abundance at the Needle-Eye. We have founcl 

 a specimen in which the stalk was terminated with two 

 bunches of leaves similar to those of the root, but shorter. 

 Mr NEILL says that the thick tuberous roots, sliced and 



