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and ufeful aperient medicine, good in obflruc- 

 cions of the vifcera, and to promote the natural 

 evacuations. The berries are alfo ufed to make 

 a wine, which has fomething of the flavor of 

 frontiniac -, and in fome countries, they dye cloth 

 of a brov/n color with them. The young um- 

 bels before the flowers expand are by fome 

 eileem'd for pickling. 



ALSINE. Gerj. PL 380, 



Cal. pentaphyllus. Petal a 5, asqualia. Capfida uni- 

 locularis, trivalvis. 

 mdia I, ALSINE petalis bipartilis, foliis ovato-cordatis. 



Sp. pi. 3H9. [Oed, DciM. L 525. florihus ^-andris^ 



^ t, A^-^^. florihus iQ-andris. Moris, hijl. f. ^. t. 



2^. f. A. Ger. Era. 611./. 2.) 

 Common Chickweed. AngJis. 

 In fhady places and in gardens frequent. O. V-IX. 

 It varies in its number of ftamina from three to ten. 

 Chickens and many kinds of fmall birds are very 



fond of this plant. 



TETRAGYNIA. 



PARNASSIA. Gen, fL 834. 

 CaL 5-partitus. Petaia 5. Ne^aria 5, cordata, ci- 

 iiata apicibus globofis. Capfu!a quadrivalvis. 

 ■paluftris I. PARNASSIA. Sp. pi 391. (Moris, hijf. f. 12. L 

 10. f. 3. Ger. Emac. 840./. \.) 

 Grafs of ParnafTus. Anglis. 

 In bogs and wet paftures frequent., %, VIII. 



The 



