﻿Highwoocl and Coney-croft-hanger, Selboine: Rev. G. White.— N ear tlie 39th 

 milestone in the road to Basingstoke: Mr. E. Forster, jun —Kent; Between 

 Northfleet and Gravesend: Ur. Martyn. Road-side up the Chalk-hill, about 

 a mile N. W. from Charing: Mr. E. Jacou.— Norfolk ; In a hedge at Stiffkev 

 near Wells: Mr. E. Forster, jun. On the Castle Hill at Castle Acre: Sir 

 J. E. Smith — Northamptonshire ; Rockingham Forest, common : Mr. Pitt. — 

 Northumberland ; Woods in Allondale: Mr. Winch. — Somersetshire ; Woods 

 between Gounsbery and Blackwell, plentifully: Mr. Hudson. On the inner 

 side of the wall w hich joins the garden of the farm-house on Claverton Down, 

 near Bath : Dr. Heneage Gidbs, in FI. Bath.— Suffolk ; In several places of 

 the parish of Brandish : Mr. J. Sheraro, in Ray’s Syn. Bath Hills by Bun- 

 gay : Mr Woodward. Laxfield, Newton, and Cranford: Mr. Davy.- — Sussex; 

 Upon the Downs towards Chichester, along the road : Dr. Dii.lenius, in Ray’s 

 Syn. Between Pyecombe and Newtimber; and in Arundel Paik: Mr. W. 

 Borrer. — Warwickshire ; Near Studley Castle, Dunnington, and Arrow: 

 Mr. T. Purton. Hagley : Mr. Hickman. — Wilts ; Woods at Clarendon near 

 Salisbury: Dr. Martyn. Near Great Bedwyn : W. Bartlett, Esq. — Wor- 

 cestershire; Southstone’s Rock: Mrs. Gardner. — Yorkshire; Lanes at 

 Campsall near Doncaster: Mr. Tkfsdale. — WALES. Anglesea ; NearTyfry : 

 Rev. H. Davies. — Denbighshire ; In Park Pierce, and the Crest near Denbigh : 

 Mr. Griffith.— Glamorganshire; Near Park Mill tou>ards Pennard Castle 

 by Swansea : Dr. Turton. — SCOTLAND. Banks of the Clyde at Blantyre 

 Priory, abundantly. Old walls, Barncluish, Glasgow : Mr. IIopKinK. Between 

 Arnstruther andKepply: Mr. Chalmers. By the Doune, Ayr: Mr. James 

 Wilson, in Brit. FI. 



Perennial. — Flowers in March and April. 



Root small, with a great number of slender dark-coloured fibres. 

 Stem from 1 to 2 feet high, perennial, towards the bottom round, 

 strong, naked, but marked with alternate scares, the vestiges of 

 former leaves ; branched at the top, and producing great abund- 

 ance of flowers. Leaves very dark green, on long petioles (fool- 

 stalks), truly pedate (bird-footed), of 7 or 9 spear-shaped, serrated 

 leaflets ; upper ones, or rather their footstalks, gradually becoming 

 pale, spear-shaped, entire bracleas. Flowers numerous, panicled, 

 drooping, almost globular. Calyx ( corolla of Linn.) large, pale 

 green, tinged with purple at the apex. Petals ( nectaries of Linn.) 

 from 5 to 8, small, tubular, and nectariferous at the base. Stamens 

 about as long as the calyx. Styles 3 or 4. 



The whole herb is foetid, acrid, violently cathartic, with a nause- 

 ous taste, especially when fresh. The leaves, when dried, are 

 sometimes given as a domestic medicine to destroy worms ; but 

 they must be used cautiously, as many instances of their fatal 

 effects are recorded. A dose of about 15 grains of the powder of 

 the dried leaves is given to children, which proves gently emetic 

 and purgative. The decoction of about a drachm of the fresh leaves 

 being considered equal to 15 grains of the dry ones ; it is usually 

 repeated on two, and sometimes three successive mornings, and 

 seldom fails to bring away worms, if there be any in the intestinal 

 canal. Mr. Purton informs us, in his Midland Flora, vol. iii. p. 

 364, that he never could increase the dose of powdered leaves 

 beyond ten grains, without producing considerable disturbance in 

 the intestinal canal ; nor can the same quantity of the fresh-dried 

 plant be exceeded with any degree of safety. The powdered roots 

 mixed with meal are said to destroy mice. Country people put the 

 root into setons made through the dewlaps of oxen, with the ex- 

 pectation of drawing off or relieving by the discharge, murrain or 

 any other disease of cattle, a very ancient practice, recorded by 

 Absyrtus and Hierocles. — See W oodville' s Med. Bot. ; Wither- 

 ing' s Bot. Arr. ; Martyn' s- Mill. Gard. Diet., Sfc. 



