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12. Viola martia Alfina folio tenella circinato, R. 
' 366. Marfh Violet, with fieiider roundilh leaves. 
They are cooling, moiilening, and laxative; good in afiefilons 
Of the brealt and langs, helping cougiis ancj pleuretick pains. The 
fyrup is given to children, to open and cool their bodies. The 
leaves are cooling and opening, and frequently put into glyfters, 
as well as into ointments againft inflammations. The feed is 
reckoned good for the done and gravel. 
CLASS XXI. 
Vasculiferous Plants with hexafetalous\ 
or folyfetalous flowers, 
RayV Synof. Z. 367. 
S Alicaria, Willow-herb. The leaves are long 
narrow, and refemble thofe of the Willow • 
The empalement is tiibulous, ftriated, and cut 
into a great many fcgments : The flowers are 
hexapetalous, expanding in the form of a Rofe, 
having a great many chives ; The ovary is fur- 
niflied with a long tube, whofe top refembles a 
bafon ; It turns to a fruit, or oval hulk, hid in the 
empalement, and full of fmall feeds. The fpe- 
I. Salicaria vulgaris furfurea foliis oUongis, R, 
367. Lyfmacbia purpurea, G. 386, P. 546. fpi- 
cata purpurea, forte Plinii, C. 246. Purple fpiked 
Willow-herb, or Loofe-ftrife. In marlhes, and on 
the brinks ol rivers. The ftalks, in a kindly foil, 
rile to the height of a man ; The leaves grow in 
pairs, fometimes threes, at certain diftances, and re- 
lemble the leaves of Willow, but are narrower : 
The flowers grow in a thyrfe, about nine inches long’ 
compofcd of feveral whorls ; they ftrike the eye 
with a gay bright blue colour, and each confifts of 
fix petals, with chives of the fame colour: The em- 
paicment is oblong, purple, ftriped, and divided in- 
to 
