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CALTHA. Linn. Gen. Plant. 623.

MEADOW-BOUTS. Cowslips. MarchMarigold. Sterns branch-ed. Leaves kidney-shaped. Blossoms yellow. In brooks andwatery places. April—May.

Many people esteem it a good pot-herb. Dr. Withering says,the flowers gathered, and preserved in salted vinegar, are a goodSubstitute for capers. The juice of the flowers boiled, withthe addition of alum, stains paper yellow. It has been suppos-ed, that the remarkable yellowness of butter in the spring, iscaused by this plant: but Boerhaave says, if cows eat it, it willoccasion such inflammation, that they generally die.

DIDYNAMIA.

G YMNOSPERMIA.TEUCRIUM. Linn. Gen. Plant. 625.Teucrium foliis ovatis inceqtialiter serratis, racemis terminali-bus. Syst. Nat.

GERMANDER. Wood Sage. Blossoms white, tinged with red.Near Dummer Academy. Not common. July.

NEPETA. Linn. Gen. Plant. 629.

Nepeta floribus spicatis: verticillis subpedicellatis, foliis pe-holatis cordatis dentato-serratis. Syst. Nat.

CATMINT. Catnip. Blossoms pale purple, or blue. Aboutbarns and fields. July.

An infusion of the plant, especially of the blossoms, is grate-ful to the stomach, and a mild carminative, but of no greatefficacy. Dr. Withering says, an infusion of it is deemed a spe-cific in chlorotic cases. It is much used by the country peoplehere in the same cases. Cats are remarkably fond of this plant.Mr. Miller says, they eat it until it produces a kind of drunk-enness, and then tear it to pieces with their claws.

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BETONICA.