24? DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



On the borders of fields and under hedges. VII. % 

 The leaves are pinnated, foft and hairy, confifting 

 of fix or feven pair of ferrated pinnce, with other 

 fmallcr ones intermix'd between them, and an 

 odd one at the end : the flowers are yellow, and 

 grow in a long, flender unbranch'd fpike : the 

 fruir, or fwoln calyx. Is crown'd with hooked 

 hairs, which adhere readily to the cloaths. 

 The leaves make a very pleafant tea, faid to be 

 ferviceable in hcemorrhagies, and in ob(l:ru6lion$ 

 of the liver and fpleen. The country people 

 alfo tife them fomerimes by way of cataplafm in 

 contLifions and frelh wounds. 



TRIGYNIA. 



RESEDA. Gen. pi. 608. 



CaL i-phyllus, partitus. Petala laciniata. Caps, 



ore dehifcens, i-locularis. 



luteola I. RESEDA follis lanceolatis integris bafi utrinquc 

 unidentatis, calycibus quadrifidis. Syft. nat, 329. 

 Sp.pL 643. {Ger. cm. 494) 



Wild-woad, Yellow- weed, or Dyers- weed. Anglis. 



In wafte places near villages, as 2iho\xiDyfart^ Burnt- 

 IJland^ and Lafwade^ &cc. O. VII. 



The young leaves are often undulated : the (talk 

 is a yard high, or more, terminated with a long 

 naked fpike of yellowifh green flowers : the calyx 

 is quadrifid, the tv/o upper fegments being v/idefl:: 

 the petals are three, the upper one neftariferous 



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