NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. itj 



CHAP. V. 



Account of the Vegetables continued. 



Sect. L Medicinal and other plants and flowers. Sect. II. Noxious herbs. 

 Sect. III. Wholfom and palatable berries: Sect. IV. Of the Norway woods 

 in general. S e c t. V. A catalogue of Norway trees. Sect. VI. Mofs upon 

 the trees and Jlones. 



SECT. I. 



FROM the common efculent vegetables, I come to treat of Medicinal 

 feverai other kinds of plants and flowers, which Norway plants. er 

 affords, fome falubrious, others agreeable to the fight or fmell; 

 fome planted in gardens, others growing wild; and I fhall gather 

 my informations either from books, efpecially that of the accurate 

 Mr. Ramus, or from the epiflolary correfpondence I enjoy, with 

 perfons of parts and candor. Among the written helps, I muft 

 acknowledge the preference due to an Herbarium Vivum, written 

 by Mr. Godfrey Henry Langen, who, for various purpofes, but 

 particularly to acquire a knowledge of the Norway plants, hath 

 vifited feverai provinces, making fome fray in Nordland, an hun- 

 dred Norway miles beyond Bergen *. From thefe authorities, I 

 have fet down the following, with remarks where I thought them 

 proper and requifite, omitting remarks upon thofe plants that are . 

 common and generally known. 



Abfinthium maritimum (likewife pratenfe.) Sea-wormwood. 



Acetofa major, minor, fontana. Sorrel. 



Acetofella. Petty-forrel, frieep-forrel. 



Aconitum magnum. Wolfsbane. 



Adiantum aureum. Golden maidenhair. 



Agrimonia. Agrimony, liver-wort. 



Alchimilla f. pes leonis, item minor mathioli, foliis divifis et 

 fubtus albicantibus. Ladies mantle; Pa-de-lion. 



Allium montanum latifol. Sylveftre, tenuifolium. Broad- 

 leaved mountain-garlick. This, in fome places, is fo intermixed 

 with the grafs, that it gives a difagreeable tafte to the milk, as if 



* This Herbarium Vivum, is the more valuable for the lively frefhnefs of the co- 

 lours of the feverai plants and flowers, beyond any thing of the kind I ever faw; but 

 \yhether this be the effecl: of the air, or of the plants themfelves, I cannot determine. 



Part I. H h garlick 



