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rsEs. 
In Worcestersliire and HerefordsLire tLis plant is very 
extensively used by the country people to make an ointment 
for wounds, bums, &c., called “nedder ointment,” and 
under this name it is often asked for at cbemists. Grerard 
recommends it to be “ stamped in a stone mortar, and boiled 
in oile olive unto tbe consumption of tbe iuyce, and imtill 
tlie berbes be dry and parched, and then strained',” when 
it will jdeld an oil equal to oil of St. John’s Wort, and used 
for the same purposes as the above ointment. Parkinson 
has a much more extensive list of diseases for which it is 
useful. 
LOCALITIES. 
Moist woods and pastures. Frequent in different parts 
of Stanley, Lofthouse, &c. 
Plate XIX. 
