| botanical arranged. = o 435 
for one of the ferns, which is known by that name in 
England. 
ALETRIS. Linn. Gen. Plant 587. 507 
Aletris floribus erettis, Sytt. Nat. 
UNICORN. Blofloms white. On high land in Kiling is 
the itate of Connecticut. July: 
It is faid to be ufeful in chronic a 
X ACORUS. Linn. Gen. Plant. 392. 
SWEET FLAG. Spicewort. The leaves are thick ; narrow ; 
two-edged. Bloffoms greenifh. Common in 7) eri 
July. 
. The roots and bloffoms are aromatic ad lle The 
dried roots are carminative. "They are frequently grated into 
water, and given to children for pain in the ftomach and bowels. 
The Turks candy the roots, and think they are a CU Hid 
againft contagion. 
BERBERIS. Linn. Gen. Plant. 399. 
` Berberis pedunculis racemofis. ^ Syft. Nat. 
 "BARBERRY. Pipperidge Bush. Hilos pon: Coban. 
u 
i The berries are ufed for pickles, Boiled with fugar, they 
form a moft agreeable jelly. They are uíed likewife as a dry 
fweet-meat, Fs in fugar-plumbs. |. An infufion of the bark in 
white wine is purgative. The roots boiled in lye.dye wool 
yellow. In Poland, they dye leather of the moft beautiful 
yellow with the bark of the root. "The inner bark of the 
.ftems dyes linen of a fine yellow, with: the afüiftance of alum. It 
is faid, that rye and wheat will be injured by this fhrub, at the 
diftance of three or four hundred yards ; but only when it is 
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