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Linmeus tells us that fwine are fond of the leaves 

 and roots of this plant; and that crickets and 

 Blattce^ or cock-roaches may be driven out of 

 houfes by the fmoke in burning of it. 



Ma 2. N. foiiis cordatis integerrimis, calyce quadrifido. 



Sp,pL 729. (BlakwelL L 498, 499, r^oo. Ge7\ em. 

 819./. I) 

 White Water Lilly. Anglis, 

 An duilleag-bhait', Rabhagach. GauUs, 

 In lakes and ditches very frequent. % , VII & VIII. 

 The leaves df thts are much like the precedincr 

 but rather larger: the Petals are white, from 16 

 to 20 in number, wider than the leaves of the 

 Calyx^ and more oval, the exterior ones approach- 

 ing to the nature of the Calyx^ the interior ones, 

 which are gradually fmaller, to xht Stamina: the 

 number of Stamiita is 68 or 70, and the outer- 

 mod of thefe do again refemble the inn^v Petals^ 

 fo that the flower in its natural ftate has the ap- 

 pearance of being double. It raifes itfelf out of 

 the water, and expands about kv^n o'clock in 

 the morning, and clofes again, repofing upon 

 the furface, about four in the evening. The 

 fruit is fphasrical, crowned with a radiated difc, 

 like the preceding. 



The root has an aftringent and bitter tade, like the 

 roots of mod aquatic plants that run deep into 

 the mud. The highlanders make a dye with it 

 of a dark chefnut color. 



PENTAGYNIA, 



