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urine : Made into a poultice, with hogs-lard, they are reckoned 
good for tumours and inflammations. 
Melilotus, Melilot. The flowers are papiliona- 
ceous, pendulous, and grow in a fpike : The 
ftyle becomes! a naked capfula, not hid in the 
empalement, as in the Trefoils ; and contains 
one, or two roundifh feeds ; The leaves grow by 
threes on the pedicles. The fpecies are : 
* I . Melilotus vulgaris^ R. 331,^.719. Germanicay 
G. E. 1205. Officinarum Germa 7 ii^e^C, Com- 
mon Melilot. By hedges, and fometimes in corn. 
It flowers in Juue and July. The ftalks are fmooth, 
i channeird, and two or three feet high : The leaves 
i are oblong, round-pointed, ferrated about the edges, 
and frequently gnawn by infedls : The flowers grow in 
along thyrfe, they rife from the bofoms of the leaves, 
are thin fet, fmall, yellow, and hang on fliort flender 
pedicles ; to which fucceed fhort, pendulous, rugofe 
pods, black, when ripe, containing one or two yel- 
lowifh feeds. About Fouljhay houfe, five miles from 
Kendal^ Weftmoreland-\. 
• 2 . Trifolium luteum Lupulinumy R.331, G.E.1186^. 
pratenfe luteum^ capitulo breviore^ C. 328. montanum 
.Lupulinum^ 110^. Melilot Trefoil. Common in 
paftures. It refembles the Lefler Hop Trefoil, but 
is eafily diftinguifhed from it, by its fquare ftalks. 
The leaves and flowers are ufed : They are accounted molli- 
fying, and difeufsing, and eafe pain ; are frequently order’d 
in cataplafms againft inflammations, hard tumours, and any 
kind of fwelling. The Melilot plaifter, made of the leaves of 
this herb, bcird in mutton fuet, rofin, and wax, is drawing, 
and good for green wounds j but is chiefly ufed in drefsing 
blifters. 
Foenugr2?:cum, Fenugreek. From a Angle white 
root grow a great many ftalks, inclining towards 
the ground, two, three, or four inches long, 
thick, in refpedt to the bignefs of the plant, fo- 
lid and branchy : The leaves are very fmall, 
and ftand on long pedicles, which rile out cS 
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