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Tt is common every where under hedges, and 
flowers in June. f 
C. Bauhine calls it Aparine vulgaris; a name 
copied by others, 
It is a plant of confiderable virtues. The juice 
is taken in the fpring againft feorbutick com- 
plaints with fuccefs. It alfo Operates by urine, 
and is good againft the gravel. The root and 
tops given in a ftrong infufion are alfo good 
againft obftruétions of the vifcera, 
2. Little Wall-Cleavers: 
Aparine minima muralis. 
The root is oblong, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, fquare, and tole- 
rably upright: they are eight inches high, and 
are not much branched. 
The leaves are placed in a ftellate manner 
round the ftalks, about fix at a joint; and they. 
are fhort and pointed, of a pale green, and rough 
to the touch. 
The flowers grow on flender, branched foot- 
fialks, rifing from the bofoms of the leaves : they 
are fail, and of a greenifh white. 
The feeds are roundifh and double; and they 
are not fo rough as in the other kind. 
ft is found on walls and ditch-banks, and 
flowers in May. . 
Ray calls it Aparine minima. 
3. Smoother-feeded Cleavers, 
Aparine femine leviores 
The root is compofed of flender fibres, 
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. The ftalks are fquare, numerous; and a foot 
high: they are not much branched ; and_ their 
colour is a pale green, 
The leaves are oblong, narrow, blunt at thé 
end, and of a dufky green: they ftand like tay$ 
pound the’ joints of the ftalks, five or fix toge- 
ther. 
The flowers are larger than in the common 
kind; and of a pure white, 
The feeds are double, and enclofed in a loofe 
fkin. This is not fo Tough as in the common 
kind, but has only a few fhort hairs upon it. » 
We have it common in corn-fields. It flowers 
in June, ; 
Ray calls it Aparine femine Leviore. 
_ 4+ Short-leaved Marfh-Cleavers. 
Aparine paluftris foliis brevioribus. 
The root is oblong, flender, and redith, 
The ftalk is {quare, rough, of a pale green; 
weak, and. about a foot high; : 
The leaves ftand in rays at the joints of the 
ftalks; and they are fhort, fharp-pointed,. and 
of a bright green. : 
The flowers ftand on footftalks rifing from the 
bofoms of the leaves; and they are white and 
fmall. 5 
The feeds are double, and are enclofed in a 
rough fkin, 
It is common on bogs, and in damp places un- 
der hedges. It flowers in April, 
Ray calls it Aparine paluftris minor Parifienfis 
fore albo. ) 
The virtues are the fame with thofe of the 
common cleavers, 
VII: 
SQUINANCY WORT, 
RUBIA CYNANCHIC4Z 
HE flower confifts of a fingle petal. The lower part is in form of a long tube : the rim is 
# {pread out, and divided into four pointed fegments. The cup is {mall; and divided into four 
parts; and it ftands on the rudiment of the fruit. 
The feeds are two after every flower; and they 
are very large, round, and enclofed in a loofe fkin: they grow joined together. The leaves are 
three-cornered. 
Linnéus places this among the tetrandria monogynias the threads in the flower being four, and the 
ftyle fingle. But he does not allow it to be a diftinét genus. He joins it with the 4/perula or wood. 
ruffe, from which it differs in the three-cornéred fhape of the leaves, Age 
There is but one known fpecies of this plant, and that is a native of Britain, 
Squinancywort. 
Rubia cytanchita, 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. : 
The ftalks are numerous, fquare, redifh, not 
much branched, and about ten inches high. 
The leaves ftand in the manner of rays at the 
_ joints of the ftalks, fix at a joint in the lower 
part of the plant, and four at a joint in the up- 
per: they are fmall, oblong, flender; and three- 
cornered, and fharp-pointed. 
The flowers are finall and red; but they aré 
numerous, and make a pretty appearaiice : they 
"are difpofed in a kind of umbel at the tops of thé 
flalks. 
It is not uncommon on hilly, barren grounds! 
It flowers in July. 
€.Bauhine calls it Rubia cynancbica, Others; 
Rubeola quadrifolia levis. 
It is faid to be a fovercign temedy for the 
quincy ; but there is no good authority for the 
practice, 
The END of the TWENTY-THIRD CLASS, 
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