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when ripe, fitting in red cups, having red footftalks. 

 The roots and wood have been long ufed as a fudo- 

 rific, but the bark of the root is by much the ftrong- 

 eft, yielding a confiderable quantity of hot, aromat- 

 ic oil; and when powdered and joined with other 

 febrifuges, has been given with fuccefs in intennit- 

 tents, &c, Alfo ufed as a tea, is faid to promote 

 obftrufted menfes ; but has been blamed for occafi- 

 oning the head-ach. 



LEDUM. 



MARSH CISTUS, or WILD ROSEMARY. 

 Clafs 10. Order i. Decandria Monogynia. 



THE Empalement is of one leaf, very fmall, and five-tcK)th- 

 ed. 



The Corolla confifts of five petals, ovate, concave, and fpread- 



The Filaments are ten, thread-form, fpreading and the length 



of the corolla. The Antherce are oblong. 

 The Germen Is roundifh. The Style thread-form and the length 



of the ftamina. The Stigma is obtufe. 

 The Seed'veJJel is a capfule, roundilli, five-cell'd and gaping in 



five parts at the top. 

 The Seeds are numerous, oblong, narrow, acute each way and 



very flender. 



^ The Species with us, but one, viz. 



Ledum thymifolium. Thyme leaved Marjh 

 Cijliis. 



This grows naturally in the Jerfeys, in low, moift 

 places. It is a fmall ever-green fhrub, fcarcely rif- 

 ing above eighteen inches or two feet in height and 

 divided into feveral branches. The leaves are very 

 fmill, entire, of an oblong oval (hape, and thick 



confidence. 



