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la moift woods flowering in April and May. 
In the outwoods near Loughborough plentifully. 
In Buddon W ood. 
The inner bark of this tree, efpecially of the root, 
is a violent purge. Haller obferves, that the char- 
coal of the wood of this tree is preferable to others 
for making of gunpowder. Enum. Stirp. Helv. 
164. and it is ufed for that purpofe in Sweden, 
FI. Suec. p. 68. Amaen. Acad. V. I. p. 360. The 
berries of this tree will ftrike a good green, as 
Buckthorn berries do, and the inner bark will give 
a yellow dye. ibid. 
Digynia. 
Gentiana, Gen. Plant. N°. 285". 
Gentiana corollis quinquefidis hypocrateri-formibus, 
fauce barbatis. Sp. Plant, p. 230. 
Gentiana pratenfis flore lanuginofo C. B. pin. 188. 
Raii Syn. 275. Dwarf Autumnal Gentian , or 
Fellwort. 
In dry mountainous paftures efpecially where 
the foil is chalky. It flowers in Auguft. In the 
paftures about Eaft Leke, Nottinghamshire, but 
Sparingly. 
The Vernal Dwarf Gentian, faid, in the Sy- 
nopfis, p. 275, to be found by Mr. Fitz Roberts 
near Kendal, is a miftake, arifing from the au- 
tumnal Gentian being obferved to flower fooner 
than common : hence it does not appear, that that 
plant has yet been found in England. See Wil- 
fon’s Synopfis of Britifh Plants, p. 135. 
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