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determines your plant to be the L. arvenfe 
or baftard Alkanet. Linnseus fays, the girls 
in Sweden paint their faces with this root 
on certain feftivals. 
What is that very upright plant, 
mum ' with a fmatl white flower, under the 
hedge? The flower tells you, at once, 
that it is of the Clafs Yetr adynamia, and 
the long pod informs you, that it is 
alfo of the Order, Siliquofa. Now the 
pods, you obferve, are columnar, and 
fquare, and the calyx clofed: therefore 
it is an Eryfimum-, and, if you rub any 
part of the plant, the garlic fmell will 
tell you, that it can be no other than 
the E. aliaria, called Jack by the hedge 
or Sauce alone. It is diftinguifhed from 
other fpecies of Eryfimum, by its heart - 
fliaped leaves. It grows to the height 
of 2 or 3 feet. The ftem is round, 
fmooth, branched .towards the topj 
branches alternate, erecl, and. the flow- 
ers fmall and terminal, as you fee.. 
Carda- Thofe purple-white flowers that 
are fprinkled on that meadow, are 
of the fame Clafs and Order as the 
iaft, 
mine. 
