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Byway-fides, and in low grounds, and places where 

 water has ilood in the winter, and in Tandy foil 

 very connmon. V-. VII. 



The leaves confift of ten or twelve pair of oval- 

 lanceolate, and acutely-ferrated pinn^^ growing 

 larger by degrees towards the end of the leaf, 

 'mid having fmalier ones intermixed between 

 them : the finnce are hairy, and white under- 

 neath, fhining like fatin : the flowers are yellow. 



It has an ailringent quality, but is rarely uied in 

 medicine. 



The roots tafte like parfneps, and are frequently- 

 eaten by the common people in Sccticnd^ cipher 

 roaft or boiled. 



In the iflands of Tirey and Col they are mucli 

 efleemed, as anfwering in fome mcafure the pur- 

 pofes of bread, they having been known to fup- 

 port the inhabitants for months together, dur- 

 ing a fcarcity of other provifions. They put a 

 yoke on their ploughs, and often tear up their 

 pafture grounds, with a view to eradicate the 

 roots for their ufe •, and as they abound mod in 

 barren and impoveriili'd foils, and in feafons that 

 fucceed the word for other crops, fo they never 

 fail to afford a mod feafonable relief to the in- 

 habitants in times of the greateft fcarcity. A 

 fingular inftance this of the bounty of provi- 

 dence to thefe iflands ! 



Cattle rcje6t the leaves of this plant, but fwine are 

 fond of the roots. 



** Foliis digitalis. 



POTENTILLA 



