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Lhuyd, will be fufficient for my purpofe ; thofe who are further 
curious, and would have this article treated of more foientifically, 
I mu ft refer to fome perfon who will fmgly apply himfelf to this 
extenRve fcience, and track it not only through all the different 
Rtuations of this county, (where poffibly his pains may be rewarded 
by fome not only rare but new plants) but through* the now en- 
creating volumes of herbals, as well as the mountains and vallies 
of foreign countries. 
N°. 1. Of the hill and hedge plants, I find a kind of mercury p 
with leaves like fpinage : it is fo effectual in the cafes of fore or 
broken breaRs of women, that by a falve made of it, a Lady of 
the parifh of Ludgvan cured in a fhort time a bread: ' which had 
nineteen holes in it. 
N°. 11. Arfmart (in this Church-town) diflilled has been found r 
to be better for gravelly complaints than a great variety of drugs 
taken with conftancy, but to little purpofe. 
N”. in. The ufes of camomel are well known ; it is common in 
Cornwall on every hill almoR, as well as the banks of rivers, but 
more efpecially in green fpots, where the heath and furze which 
furround them have not as yet fpread their roots : it thrives alfo in 
our gardens, whither it is tranfplanted becaufe of its fmell, and 
ftrengthening emetick tea : it is placed among the rare plants of 
Cornwall by Mr. Ray s , and entituled Chamcemelum odoratifs . repens 
flore Jimplici , J. B. - - nobile feu odoratius , C. B. Romanum Ger. 
We have it with the double flower as well as the fingle, and equally 
fcented. 
N°. iv. u The fir-leafed heath with many flowers, Erica folds 
Corios multiflora , J. B. Juniperifolia Narbonenjis denfe fruticans 
Lob. on Gunhilly downs plentifully I have found it alfo near 
the Land’s-End. 
N°. V. Erica flore albo> gathered in Ludgvan parifh. 
N°. VI. “ Blue, fweet-fmclling toad-flax, Linaria odorata mon- 
fpefflulana , J. B. defcribed in Camden, page 30, near Penryn, 
along the hedges plentifully u .” 
N°. vil. A remarkable flone-crop about four feet high, fe- 
dum majus arborefcens vulgare w , found in an old cellar in Senan 
near the Land’s-End. Much fmaller Rone-crop of this kind I have 
found growing in the Riade, out of old damp walls, at Godolphin. 
N°. vill. Wood-fage, Salvia agreflis feu fcorodonia , Ger x . at 
St. Michael’s Mount, 1754. 
p Mercurialis annua glabra vulgaris. Ray, ed. 
2- page 54. 
q Of Blanch French. 
r By the late Reverend Mr. Peter, Rector of 
Mawnon. 
* Third edit, page 185. 
1 Ibid, page 47 r. 
" Ibid, page 282. 
w Ibid. 2 d . edit, page 151. 
x Ibid, page 133. 
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