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minor ^ P. 1283. Exigua maritima^ G. 448. Sea 
Milkwort, or Black Saltwort. 
Menianthes, Marfh-Trefoil. The leaves are of 
the form and bignefs of thofe of the bean, grow- 
ing by threes on each pedicle : The empalement 
is inonophyllous, expanded and cut into five 
fegments : The Rower is monopctalous, funnel- 
fhap’d, and cut deeply into five legments, with 
its inner furface neatly fringed : 'Phe fruit is 
bivalve and unicafpular, has a long tube, rough 
at the top, and contains round feeds : The 
flowers grow in a thyrfe. We have but one 
fpecies ot this plant, viz. 
Menianthes paluftre triphyllum latifolium ^ angu- 
fiifoliurn^ R. 285. ^rifolium paluftre., C. 327. Pa- 
ludofum., G. 1024. P. 1212. Marfh-Trefoil, Buck- 
beans. In marfhy places, and in waters. 
Marfh-Trefoil is reckoned a great antifcorbutick, and very 
ferviceable for the gout, rheumatifm, and dropfy ; and is much ' 
ufed in diet-drinks for thofe diftempers. It is likewife a good 
llomachick, made ufe of againft intermitting fevers. It is often 
lifed as a tea. 
Hottonia, Water Violet. The roots are fibrous, 
and creep extreamly : The ftalks are eredl and > 
naked: The leaves are 'cappillaceoiis, pennated, 
and grow alternately upon the branches, which 
fpread round the flialk in a circle. At the top of 
the ftalk grow in whorls feveral pedicles forming 
a thyrfe •, their extremities turn to empalements, 
each confifting of five long, fmall leaves, Ex- 
panded in the form of a ftar : In the middle of ,1 
every empalement is a placenta, furrounded by ^ 
a white monopctalous flower, having a yellow 5 
eye ; its lower part is tiibulous the upper ex- 
pands, and is cut into five large, blunt fegments : : 
Fropi the inner part of the tube, where it begins 
to open, is produced five fliort chives, witl\ 
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