NATURAL HISTORY ti^ORWAY. 12.5 



Tulipa var. col. Various tulips. 



Tunica. Pinks. 



Tuflilago, f. ungula equina fl. luteo. Coltsfoot: Dr Lockftor 

 thinks its effects are like thofe of tobacco, and that it might be 

 a good fuccedaneum to it; but befides the common Coltsfoot, 

 here grows alfo another different from the other in the fhape of 

 the leaves, being tapering and very narrow towards the ftem. 

 Mr. Morten Ruus informed me, that the latter were particularly 

 beneficial for recent wounds, the peafants, when efpecially in 

 harveft-time they happen to cut themfelves with a fey the, apply 

 nothing but this herb to the wound, which it clofes as it were 

 inftantaneouily. 



Valeriana graeca maj. et minor. Greek Valerian, the greater 

 and lefler. 



Verbafcum mas et fcemina, candid, et nigrum, Mullein, white 

 and black. 



Veronica maj. min, et minima, faxatilis. Speedwell; it is alio 

 called Norway-tea, and grows every where in great plenty. 



Viola matronalis, alba et aurea, it. fylveftris fl. luteo. Dames 

 violets, the garden and wild. 



Umbilicus veneris caule fanguin. fol. linguar. Red ftalk'd 

 Navel-wort. 



Unifolium. One-blade. 



Urtica maj. et min. mortua fl. albo. Nettles, and dead nettles. 



In the before-mentioned Herbarium vivum, there are above 

 twenty more very lightly flowers and herbs, which the collector 

 Mr. Lang, was at a lofs under what kind of known exotics to 

 place, and much lefs has he prefumed to give them any name. 

 I fhall mention fome others prefently, which I have had feveral 

 opportunities of knowing, previously obferving, that the foregoing 

 lift, is a manifeft evidence, how the infinitely wife Creator has 

 abundantly furnifhed this land with fuch plants and herbs, as the The herbs of 

 difeafes of the inhabitants moft require. The diftempers, efpecially adapted to its 

 towards the fea-coaft, being fcorbutic, there accordingly, as has 

 been obferved, grows not only angelica, rofe-wort, and gentian, 

 preferable to any in Europe, but likewife feveral other kinds of 

 excellent creffes, trefoils, forrels, and fcurvy-grafs. Among the 

 latter, Mr. Chriftopher Steinkul, ranks Erich's grafs, a thick leaved 



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