NATURAL HISTORY of N RWAT, itj 



CHAP. V. 

 Account of the Vegetables continued. 



Sect. I. 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. S e c t. VI. Mofs upon 

 the trees and fl ones. 



SECT. I. 



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

 feveral other kinds of plants and flowers, which Norway plant*. 

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

 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 epiftolary 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 feveral provinces, making fome flay 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. Sorreh 



Acetofella. Petty-forrel, fheep-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 feveral plants and flowers, beyond any thing of the kind I ever fawj but 

 whether this be the effect of the air, or of the plants themfelves, I cannot determine. 



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