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The Swedes and Norwegians eileem the berries to be 

 an excellent antifcorbutic : they preferve great 

 quantities of them in the autumn to make tarts, 

 and other confections. The Laplanders bruile 

 and eat them as a delicious food in the milk of 

 the rein deer ; and to preferve them through the 

 winter, they bury them in fnow, and at the re- 

 turn of fpring find them as frefh and good as 

 when firft gathered. 



In the highlands of Scotland we faw them produced 

 at table as a defert. 



FRAGARIA. Gen, pL 6^7^, 

 CaL lo-fidus. Petala 5. Receptaculum feminum 

 ovatum, baccatum, deciduum. 

 rafca i. FRAGARIA flagellis reptantibus. Syft. nat, 349. 

 Sp.-pL 708. {Ger. em. 997./. i ^ 2. Moris, hifi, 

 / 2. /. 19. /. I. in medio ordinis fuperioris. Pet. 

 herb, t. 40./. 7) 



The Wood Strawberry. Anglis. 



Subh-lair, Subh-thalmhainn. Gaulis, 



In woods frequent. %. V. VII. 



The root and leaves are ailringent and vulnerary • 

 the fruit will diffolve the tartar of the teeth, with- 

 out acrimony ; they have alfo a diuretic quality, 

 and are found ferviceable in the ilone and gra- 

 vel. Hoffman recommends them in fevers and 

 confumptions, and Linnans fays, that by eatino- 

 plentifully of them every day, he kept himfelt' 

 almoft free from the gout. A diftiH'd water, or 



wine. 



