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In woods and hedges frequent. 'V * VI. 



The root is thick, brown, woody, and of a conical, 

 figure, fmelling fometimes in the fpring like 

 cloves: the leaves are hairy and pinnated, the 

 two or three lowed pairs being very fmall, and 

 the extreme one very large, and divided into 

 three lobes : the ftipul^ are large, and deeply 

 indented : the flowers are fmall and yellow : the 

 beards of the feeds hooked. 



The root is aflringent : an infufion of it in wine, 

 or thirty or forty grains of the powder, is efteem'cl 

 a good medicine at the end of a dyfentery. 



ri'vdi 2. G. fioribus nutantibus, frudu oblongo ; ariftisplu- 

 mofis tortis. Sp. pL 717. Syft,nat. 352. (Ger.em. 

 995,/. 4. P//. herk /. 40 /. 3) 



Red Water Avens. Jnglis, 



In wet and moorifh grounds very common. % . VII. 



The flowers of this are pendulous : the calyces cy- 

 lindrical, and of a dull red color : the petals 

 eredl, emarginated, red and vein'd. 



It is found beneficial in diarrheas and hasmorrha- 

 gies, and in Canada we are told it is ufed inftead 

 of bark for agues, 



DRYAS. Gen. pi 6'^^, 

 Cal. 8*fidus. Pelala 8. Sem, caudata, pilofa. 

 c^opetala i DRYAS odopetala, foliis fimplicibus. Syfl, nat, 

 352. Sp, pL 717. (Oed, Ban. /. 31. Ger. em, 659. 



/, 6, t'y "Joy, I'hhides^ xxxiii,) 



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