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Poly- There is a humble plant, growing 
gala ' in patches, with a blue flower, that 
merits your attention; becaufe it is the 
only genus indigenous in this kingdom, 
of the Order Qttandria in the Clafs Dia- 
4elphia. It is the Polygala vulgarity or 
Milkwort, It grows, you fee, fome- 
what in the manner of that Thyme, its 
frequent companion on thefe hills; 
from which however it differs efien- 
tially, as you will find when we have 
examined them both. 
Having now, by infpe&ing the (lamina, 
determined the Clafs and Order, and know- 
ing that in thefe there is but one fpeeies 
of one genus, difcovered in this kingdom, 
you know the plant without either generic 
or fpecific defcription. For greater cer- 
tainty, however, you may obferve, that the 
calyx is pentaphyllous, and that two of its 
leaves look like coloured wings. The ftem, 
you fee, is proftrate, branched, curved and 
from 4 to 6 inches in length. 
'Thy- It is now time (without a pun) to 
mus ' take notice of its neighbour, the Ser- 
fyllum of all the Botanifts before Haller, 
who, 
