PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 157 



maculatum CONIUM feminibus ftriatis. Sp, pi. 349* (Ger. 

 ^' Em. 1 06 1, Moris, h'tjl, f. 9. /. 6. /, i» ordim in- 



ferior e,') 

 Hemlock. Anglis. 



In wafte places frequent* O. VI. VIL 

 This plant has certainly narcotic and poifonous 

 qualities, but notwithflanding this it has lately 

 been introduced into the Materia Medica as ati 

 excellent medicine to remove almoil every com- 

 plaint arifi'.ig from obftrudions in the glands. 

 The celebrated Stork firft brought it into it's 

 prefent reputation : that gentleman, by many 

 repeated experiments, found, that an extrad, 

 prepared from the frefh roots in the Spring, was 

 a very powerful and efficacious remedy in almod 

 all kinds of ulcerous, fcrophulous, and even 

 cancerous diforders. 



ATHAMANTA. Gen. PL 338- 

 Fru6lus ovato-oblongus, llriatus. Vetala inflexa 



meum \ 



emargmata. 



ATHAMANTA foliolis capillaribus, feminibus 

 glabris ilriatis. S'p. pi. 353. (Ger, Em. 1052./. 

 I. Moris, hift. / 9. t. 2. Jig. media ordinis fupe- 

 rioris.) 



Common Spignel, Meu, or Bawd-Money. Anglis. 

 Muilcionn. Gaulis. 



In mountainous paflures in many places, as about 

 Crawffird John Cajile, in Lanerkjhire \ in the 

 mountains above Dunkeld, and in the pailures 

 about Loch-Rannoch, in Ferthjhire^ &c. and Sih- 



hall 



