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major Park, Sparry, flowers in May and holds 
till July, grows common about the Edges 
ot^Cornfields, on the right Hand fide ofthe Road 
to Radford in the Corn, and in many other 
Places. 
Alsine parva paluftris tricoccos Portulacae a- 
quaticse limilis Syn 352, Alline flofculis conni- 
ventibus Merr. pin. fmall water Chick-weed or 
JPurflane.^ by Ibme called Blinks. I found this 
in June in Flower upon the fame Gorfly Com^ 
mon with the Alfinc Longifolia^ and in diverfe 
other watrv and boggy Places, All thefe belong 
to Cl I. Gen. XXIV i. 
S Alfine 'triff aginis folio ’vid, Veronica flori- 
I fius Singularibus. 
^ Althea vulgaris 252. Althaea Ibif- 
X cus Ger. Marjh Mallow s.^ClI. yiN'. flowers in 
I July and Augujt.^ is only cultivated in Gardens 
[ for the ufe of the Shops. 
’ The whqle Plant, Leaves, Seeds and Roots are of a 
1 flimy Nature, and therefore in general very fit to Iheath 
i any iharp Plumours, whether in the Bowels, Kidneys 
or ellewhere. A ftrong Decoftion lw.eetned with Sy- 
1 rup of Coltsfoot of this Plant, is of great Service to lof- 
I, ten the Acrimony of a thin Rheum which occafions 
1 ticWxng Coughs, itisnotlels uleful in violent JLoofe- 
? nejfes and Sloody Fluxes, in which Cafe a Deco£lion of 
1 of this Plant may not only be plentifully drank but like- 
V wife applyed by way of Clyfier, with the Addition of 
■ theYolk of an Egg to each In)e£lion,to fupply the want 
j of the Mucus of the Intefiines which the /laarpnels of the 
. Flun has deftroyed 5 In gravelly Obftruilions of t\ieKid- 
I n^'s 
