Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . ficinale), was once employed in medicine forcatarrhs and other ailments. It is said to be dia-phoretic and expectorant. It has a mild is sometimes cultivated as a pot-herb. It is anannual plant, plentiful in waste places and by way-sides, sometimes two feet high, branched, with nm-cinate or deeply lobed leaves, stem and leaves hair\-,flowers very small and yellow. The pods are erect,and closely pressed to the stalk.—Broad-leavedH., or London Eocket (S. irio), is said to havesprung up in great abundance on the ground des
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . ficinale), was once employed in medicine forcatarrhs and other ailments. It is said to be dia-phoretic and expectorant. It has a mild is sometimes cultivated as a pot-herb. It is anannual plant, plentiful in waste places and by way-sides, sometimes two feet high, branched, with nm-cinate or deeply lobed leaves, stem and leaves hair\-,flowers very small and yellow. The pods are erect,and closely pressed to the stalk.—Broad-leavedH., or London Eocket (S. irio), is said to havesprung up in great abundance on the ground deso-lated by the fire of London in 1666.—Fine-leavedH., or Fux-weed (S. Sophia), is common in manyparts of England and Scotland, growing in wasteplaces. Its leaves are doubly or trebly is about two feet high, branched, with yellowflowers. It was formerly administered in dysenteryand hvsteria, and the seetls as a vermifuge. HEDGE-SPARROW, HEDGE-WARBLER,HEDGE-ACCENTOR, or DUNNOCK (Accentormodalaris), a little bird of the family S>/lviadcE, a. Alpine Accentor (Accentor Alpinus). common native of Britain and of most parts ofEurojie. It is not quite so large as the house-spar-row, which It somewhat resembles in duU brownishplumage, l)nt notwithstanding its most common name, in little else; its slenderness of bill, and itswhole form, proclaiming it at once to be of a differ-ent family. It feeds principally on insects. It isone of the earliest spring songsters, having a sweetplaintive song ; and the nest is one of the first thatthe school-boy finds in spring. The nest, of greenmoss, roots, and wool, lined with hair, is usuallyplaced rather low in a bush or hedge. The eggsare four or five in number, of a delicate and spotlessbluish greem The cuckoo very often lays its e^g inthe hedge-sparrows nest. The hedge-sparrow ischiefly found in summer, in the northern temperateparts of Europe, migrating southward in winter; butin Britain it remains aD the year.—Another spec
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