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of hops, and that it preferves it as long, without 
any difagreeable tafte. It is a very grateful plant 
to the bees; and It is well known, that they procure 
great quantities of honey from it ; but what they 
gather from this plant generally gives the mafs a 
reddidi colour, and is not reckoned the beft ho- 
ney. 
Daphne, Gen. Plant. N*. 436. 
Daphne racemis axillaribus, foliis lanceolatis glabris, 
Sp. Plant. 3 5-7. 
Thymelaea floribus inter folia acuminata, levia du- 
raque. Hall. Helv. 188. 
Laureola, Ger. 1215?. R. Syn. p. 465. Spurge 
Laurel . 
In hedge?, among bufhes, and in woods flower- 
ing in March. In fome hedges about Belton, near 
Loughborough. In the lanes about Enderby neat 
Leicefter : but is not common with us. 
Trigynia. 
Polygonum, Gen. Plant. N c . 44 y. 
Polygonum caule fimplicifilmo monoflachyo, foliis 
ovatis in petiolum decurrentibus. Mat. Med-. 
189. Sp. Plant, p. 360. 
Biftorta major Ger. 322. R. Syn. p. 147. 
'The greater Biftort or Snakeweed. 
In modi meadows flowering in May. In fome 
of the paftures and moifl clofes near Leicefler. 
Tetragynia 
