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Jjb/re : In Currenwood kins, near Burton^ in Kendaly 
and other places in W^eftmor eland f . 
The berries are accounted poifonous ; but the leaves may be 
outwardly applied, with good fuccefs, to hard tumours and 
fwellings on the breaft. 
Arum, Cuckow-pint. The leaves are entire, long, 
and triangular ; ear’d, or darted at the bafe r 
The flower is monopetalous, and fliap’d like an 
afs’s ear % from the bottom of which rifes the 
pointal, accompanied with a great many em- 
bryo’s, each of which becomes a roundifh berry, 
containing one or two roundifh feeds. We have 
but one fpecies of this plant, viz. 
* Arumy R. 266. vulgar G. E. 834, vulgar e 
maculatum ^ non maculatuniy P, 373. macidatmn 
maculis candidis vel nigriSy non maculatuniy C. 
195. Wake-robin, Cuckow-pint. By hedges, and 
in fliady places. On the top of the ftalk grows 
a long membranous flieath, of a greenifh colour 
on the out- fide, and purplith within •, in which is 
inclofed a long, naked, purplifh, cylindrical poin- 
tal, whofe lower part is encompaffed with a circle of 
chives. The pointal and fheath fall off, and are 
fucceeded by a thick clufter of yeliowifli red ber- 
ries. 
The roots, dried and powder’d, helps the Afthma, and ob- 
ftruded lungs, caufmg an eafy expedoration. The fcecula of 
the root is ufed to take off tan and morphew from the Ikin, be- 
ing difiblved in Bean- flower water. 
Cu CUB ALUS, Berry-bearing Chickweed. I'he cm- 
palement grows at the end of the pedicle, con- 
filling of one leaf, in the form of a bell, whofe 
brim is cut into five ^ and in the middle thereof 
grows the placenta : The ovary is of a globu- 
lar figure, with three long fiender tubes : The 
berries contain a great many feeds, gathered into 
a duller : From the bafe of the placenta, where 
it joins with the empalement, rife live petals, re- 
2 fembling 
