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Show CLEAVERS. 95 given to goslings or young geese, who eagerly devour it. The goose and gander refuse it. Its taste is somewhat bitter and acrid. MEDICAL VIRTUES. Dioscorides mentions an ointment of great efficacy made from the expressed juice of this plant mixed with hog’s lard, for dis. cussing tumours in the breast ; and Gaspian, anItalian, adopted the same with great success. After some eminent surgeons have failed, I have ordered the expressed juice mixed with linseed meal, to be applied to the breast, with a tea-spoonful of the same to be taken fasting in the morning; and this plan, after a short time, has removed very frightful indolent tumours in the breast. It is supposed to be useful in scurvy, and for hemorrhages of the nose, and spitting of blood. Boerhaave says, its leaves made into tea are an excellent remedy in epilepsy and gout. CiLBRAV ERS. GOOSE-GRASS. GALIUM APARINE. Class 1V. Tetrandria, Order I. Monogynia. Essent. Gen. Cuar. Corolla monopetalous, flat: Seeds two, roundish. Spec. Char. Leaves eight, keeled, rough, with small prickles bent back: Stem also beset with similar prickles, jointed, villous: Fruit hispid. =e. DESCRIPTION, Tus plant rises from four to six feet, climbing up other plants. The leaves are six or eight in a whorl, lanceolate, upper side rough with sharp prickles. “The stem is square, the angles being guarded with sharp prickles, bent down. The flowers are small, inconspicuous, and white, on rough footstalks. The co- rolla is wheel-shaped, and divided into four segments. ‘These changeinto a fruit rather large, composed of two berries, slightly ae together, covered with hooked prickles, containing two Seeds. HISTORY. It is very common about cultivated groun ds and hedges, pro- ducing its lowers from June till September. It is chopped up, and |