DIOECIA ENNEANDRIA. C^l 



.r.^-. . J In woods and Jhudy places not iinfrequent, both in 



the highlands and lowlands. "4. V. 



The flalk is a foot high, ered, rough, and un- 



branched. The leaves are oval-lanceolate, fer- 



rated, rough, patent) and oppofite. The flowers 



are green, and grow in thin flender fpikes out 



cit.'i-l.- - . of the ate of the leaves. The furrows of the 



.' gerinen receive each a barren filanienr, terminated 



with a gland, marked with two brown dots. 



tc; 7,v This plant is of a foporific deleterious nature, 



noxious both to man and beaft. There are 



inftances of thofe who have eaten it by miftake, 



inflcad of Chenopodium J^omts Ilenricus, or EngliJJj 



.^ s mercury, and have thereby flept their lafl fleej:). 



>f»i/-j:vc- .. .-'.; It is called, in the ifle o^ Skye, Ltis-glen-Bracadale^ 



and I was informed that it is there fo.Tietimes 



> iw- .J ;. taken by way of infufion to bring on a faliva- 



tion. How well it anfwers the intention I know 



net, but the experiment feems to be dangerous. 



annua 2« MERCURIALIS caule brachiato, foliis glabris, 

 floribus fpicatis, Sp. ph 1465. {Ger. em. 332. f. 

 -r-.^ . ... ,: I & 2. Pet. herb. /. 1./. 7 ^ 8. Moris, hift, / 

 .r v' .-: 5. /. 34./. 1 £5? 2. crdinis fuperioris, Blackwell.t, 



162.) 

 ^;"JJ_' ' "' ■'. Annual Mercury. AngUs. ■ • •■•"•; 

 , * 'J.. ^ In wafte places about towns and villages, bur nor 

 ... ,_j .. "/. common. We obferved it at BunUiJIand, on the 

 S,r.' . /. coaft of Fife. O. IX. ., • 

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