“406 Mr. CUTLER’ S Account Ufattidizenous Vegetables, 
 BLUE-FLAG. The leaves. ate. fiword-fhiped. Bloffoms blue 
variegated | with white,yellow and purple. ‘In wet meadows. June. 
A decodtion of the. frefh roots is a powerful cathartic, and 
will fometimes produce. evacuations: ‘when other means fail ; but 
it is too draftic for common ufe. Thej juice of the frefh roots 
may be given in dofes of 60 or 8o drops every two hours. Dr. 
Withering fays the frefh roots of the yellow water flag have 
been ‘mixed with ood: of fwine bitten by a mad dog, and they 
sefcaped the difeafe; when othersy. bitten. by the fane dog, died 
ledio pasas lofes.moft of. its acrimony by bd: 
"— rane YRS? Linn. ee ‘Plant 59. | 
TELLOWETED- GRASS, "The “corolla conffts of three. oyate, 
patent, entire petals. ` The claws narrow s of the: length of the 
calix.....Neéarja three filiform. filaments between the petals, 
longer than the calix, terminating in numerous long hairs... 
_ Three very fhort filaments. rifing from, the, petals in the mouth 
of the bloffom.: Capfule membranaceous. scone, cell; 4; three 
valves ; oblong ; comprefied on one fide. The other nd 
agree. with Linneus’s defcription. aiuti us 
ETTO 
The ftem flattith ; ; naked ; ered. Radical cm narrow ; 
: tapering” toa point. . ‘Bloffoms i in an head on the fummit of the | 
Temy Rom. yellow. . On banks ‘of ponds. . Auguft, 
woes CYPERUS. ‘Linn. “Gen. Plant. 6i. 
| RS culma triguetro, umbellæ  fpicidis capitatii eblongis” 
Seffitibus, involucris longiffimis ferrato=afperis ? Syft. Nat. 
CALANGALE. In: open fcis. Auguft. 
"aen „SCIRPUS, Linn. Gen, Plant. 62. | 
Scirpus culm : 
cirpus. culmo tereti nudo, fpicis ovatis pluribus pedunculatis 
terminalibus, Syk, Nat, 
BULLRUSH. 
