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♦ Afarum, R.158, G. 688. vulgar P. 266. A-^ 
farabacca. In woods and fliady places. 
* Seven or eight of its leaves, infufed in a glafs of white wine, 
is a very good vomit. A night’s infufion of an ounce of 
its roots in a pint of water, drained, and drunk warm in the 
morning, is a good diuretick. 
Alchimilla, Ladies-mantle. The leaves are fer- 
rated : The empalement is divided into eight feg- 
ments, expanded in the form of a ftar : The 
flowers are colledted into bunches upon the tops 
of the ftalks : The feed-veflel contains, for the 
mofl: part, two feeds. The fpecies are ; 
^ i. Alchimilla^ R.158, G.802. major vulgaris^ 
P.538, vulgaris^ G. 319. Ladies-mantle. Comrhon 
in meadows and pafcures. 
2. Alchimilla Alpina pentaphyllos^ R. 1 58. Penta- 
phyllum petrofum^ HeptaphyllumClufii^ G. 837. Por- 
mentilla Alpina folio fericeo^ C.326. argentea^P 
Cinquefoil Ladies-mantle. On Limeft one-knot^ in 
Longjledale^ fix miles from Kendal^ Wejimorelandy 
near the road to Kent-mire. The leaves are dark 
green on the upper part, and of a filver colour un- 
derneath 'I". 
Ladies-mantle is accounted a good wound-herb. The leaves, 
applied to lank flagging breaks, bring them to a gi’Cater firmnefs 
and fmaller compafs. ^ 
I Percepier Anglorum, Parfley-piert. The em- 
j palement is monophyllous, divided into four feg- 
i ments : The flowers grow from the wings of the 
leaves on fhort pedicles, difpofed in two parcels ; 
Each feed-veflel contains one Angle feed. W e 
have but one fpecies of this plant, viz. 
Percepier Anglorum., R. 156, G. E. 1594. Polygo- 
I 7 ium felinoides., P. 449. Ch^erephyllo nonnihil Jimili 5 \ 
\ C. 152. Parfley-piert. Among corn, and in dry 
barren ground. It is a frnall plant, generally lying 
upon the ground. The branches are full of fmall 
leaves fet alternately at the joints, a little hairy, nar- 
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