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opening pretty wide at the top, and divided as 
the empalement is; having five chives, with fum- 
mits, neatly bearded, or fring’d : The fruit is 
compofed of two huflcs, which inclofe feeds, for 
the mofl part of a cylindrical figure, and fur- 
rowed. It feldom bears fruit. The fpecies are : 
* 1. Vinca pervinca minor ^ R. 268, G. E. 894. 
vulgaris^ P. 380. Clematis daphnoides minor ^ C. 301. 
Periwinkle. In hedges and moifl places, but rare- 
ly. ^ Its flowers are commonly of a blue colour. 
2. Clematis daphnoides major\ R. 268, C. 302. 
daphnokL latifolio^ five Vinca Pervinca major^ P. 
380. daphn, five Pervinca major ^ G. E. 894. The 
Greater Periwinkle. In the high- ways between 
Wolverton and Tarnton : In the way from Knowlton 
to Deal ; and in a lane before you come to Foots- 
Gray from RoehilL 
This is a good vulnerary plant, and of frequent ufe in wound- 
drinks, for bruifes, contufions, inward bleeding, and walling, 
fpitting of blood, the excefs of the catamenia, and the fluor 
albus. 
Sempervivum, Houfe-leek. This has the fame 
charadler with Sedum. It fends forth fibres, 
which produce feveral balls of leaves : The 
ftalk is thick, bearing ftar-fafliioned, reddifh, or 
dark purple flowers. We have but one fpecies 
of this plant, viz. 
"^Sempervivum majus.^ R. 269, G. 411. Sedum 
majus vulgar e., C. 283, P. 730. Common Houfe- 
leek. On houfes and garden walls. 
Houfe-leek is cooling and referingent; and, tho’ not often 
given inwardly, is commended by fome as good to quench 
thiiil in fevers, mixed with pofi'et- drinks ; as alio for heat and 
fiarpnefs of urine. Pre'jolius^ in his Medicuia Fauperum, com- 
mends an equal quantity, three ounces of the juice of this 
and Peiiicaria maculata, boil’d to the confumption of a third 
part, and given in drink, as a certain medicine to Hop a loofe- 
nefs, and bloody Ilux ; outwardly, it is ufeful againil burns and 
fcalds, St Antho7iy\ f.re, and the Shingles. , 
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