botanically arranged, 459 



CALTHA. Linn. Gen. Plant. 623. 



MEADOW-BOUTS. Cowslips. March Marigold. Stems branch- 

 ed. Leaves kidney-shaped. Blossoms yellow. In brooks and 

 watery places. April — May. 



Many people esteem it a good pot-herb. Dr. Withering says, 

 the flowers gathered, and preserved in salted vinegar, are a good 

 substitute for capers. The juice of the flowers boiled, with 

 the addition of alum, stains paper yellow. It has been suppos- 

 ed, that the remarkable yellowness of butter in the spring, is 

 caused by this plant : but Boerhaave says, if cows eat it, it will 

 occasion such inflammation, that they generally die. 



DIDYNAMIA. 



G YMNOSPERMIA . 

 TEUCRIUM. Linn. Gen. Plant. 625. 

 Teucrium foliis ovatis incsqualiter serratis, racemis terminali- 

 bus. Syst. Nat. 



GERMANDER. Wood Sage. Blossoms white, tinged with red. 

 Near Dummer Academy. Not common. July. 



NEPETA. Linn. Gen. Plant. 629. 



Nepeta fioribus spicatis : verticillis subpedicellatis, foliis pe- 

 holatis cordatis dentato- serratis. Syst. Nat. 



CATMINT. Catnip. Blossoms pale purple, or blue. About 

 barns and fields. July. 



An infusion of the plant, especially of the blossoms, is grate- 

 ful to the stomach, and a mild carminative, but of no great 

 efficacy. Dr. Withering says, an infusion of it is deemed a spe- 

 cific in chlorotic cases. It is much used by the country people 

 here in the same cases. Cats are remarkably fond of this plant. 

 Mr. Miller says, they eat it until it produces a kind of drunk- 

 enness, and then tear it to pieces with their claws. 



5 K k k 2 BETONICA. 



