If you pull one of thofe bunches of fmall 
cream coloured flowers, you will find they 
have a ftrong kernel odor. They refemble 
apparently the flower of the common Elder; 
but you will find them of the Clafs and Or- 
der, Icofandria Pentagynia. It is the Spir&a 
ulmaria> Meadow-fweet. You cannot mif- 
take the genus > becaufe there are, in this 
kingdom, but two of this Clafs and Order, 
one of which is the Wild Pear-tree. There 
are alfo but two fpecies of the Spircza. The 
other is the S.fiHpendula, Dropwort: it is a 
much lefs plant, and is particularly diftin- 
guifhed by the oblong glands at the extre- 
mity of the fibres of its root. 
That plant with purplifh red flowers, Spi- 
of four obcordate petals, with leaves raa ' 
refembling thofe of the Willow, is the 
Epilobium hirfutum^ Large-flowered Wil- 
low-herb, or Codlings and Cream, fo 
called from its fmell, which has been 
fuppofed to refemble the fmell of apples 
and cream. You will find it to be of 
the Clafs and Order Ofiandria Monogy- 
nia. The genus is characterized by its 
five-leaved calyx, four petals, oblong 
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