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rationally, confiders his infatiable thirft of 
knowledge, as a powerful argument in proof 
of a future flate. 
Cbenopo- You obferve a plant, about a foot 
dium. j n h^ght, near that dunghill; with 
fhort, fpread, flat bunches of green 
flowers, and leaves fomewhat refem- 
bling, in fhape, the foot of a goofe, 
and not very unlike the leaves of a 
nettle. It is the Cbenopodium murale, 
Goofe-foot or Sowbane, of the Clafs 
and Order Pentandria Digynia. The 
calyx is pentaphyllous and pentago- 
nous : corolla it has none. Its leaves 
are glofTy, and the whole plant has 
a difagreeable fmell. By thefe cir- 
cumftances you will diftinguifh it 
from the other fpecies of which there 
are twelve in this kingdom, and 
twenty in all. The genus is eafily 
known by the green flowers, the 
goofe-foot leaves, and their growth 
near dunghills and among rubbifh. 
Our homeward rout now lies along the 
verdant banks of this rivulet 
varies hicfumina circum 
Fundit bumus fores. 
If 
