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near the fea. The leaves fpread circularly upon 
the ground ; and are deeply jagged. 
9. Plant ago ^ an Alpina anguftifolia^ R. 315. Nar- 
row-leav’d Mountain Plantain. 
10. Plant ago gramineo folio hirfu.to^ minor ^ capitulo^ 
rotundo brevi^ R. 3 1 6. The Lefler, hairy, grafs-ieav’d 
Plantain, with a round head. On the banks of the 
river near Yarmouth^ betwixt the town and the peir. 
11. Plant ago paluftris gramineo folio monanthoSy 
ParifienfiSy R. 316.. Ma^ih Plantain of Paris, with 
a grafs leaf. By Hofeley loch, in Northumber- 
land, It hath thick grafly leaves at the root, which 
fpread upon the ground in a circle ; from among 
which rife a great number of naked ftalks, fcarce 
four inches high •, on whofe tops the flowers are ga- 
thered into very fmall flat heads, having long chives 
tipp’d with fummits. 
Plantain is cold, dry, and binding, and ufeful in all kinds of 
fluxes ^nd hemorrhages, as Ipitting of blood, bleeding at the 
nofe, the excefs of the catamenia, or lochia ; as alfo for the 
involuntary making of urine, its heat and fharpnefs, and the 
gonorrhea. * It is likewife good to flop the bleeding of wounds, 
and to confolidate their lips. 
Bdciklhorn Plantain is, by fome, called thfe Star of the “Earth, 
and accounted good againft the bite of a mad dog. 
2 * whofe flowers are defeated in fuch a manner 
that they feem pentapetalous, 
ift. Such as are unicapfular, 
Anacallis, Pimpernel. The leaves grow by 
p^rs ; The empalement is divided into five Iharp 
fegments, fpreading like the rays of a ftar : The 
flower is monopetSous, but fo deeply cut into 
five fegments, that it aj^ars pentapetalous ; it 
is fupported by a long pedicle,; and furrounds 
the ovary and fiv-e chives : Sometiihes the em- 
palement and flower are cut into four fegments, 
and have four chives. It has a round iinicapfu- 
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