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The Down is ufed in fome places for Beds, and applied to kibed Heels 
Cures them, ftamped with Swines Greafe is good for burnings, Diofc. and 
giventoa Dram, with other ingredients, Cures Ruptures, Math. This feems 
to be no good Medicine, but that other Ingredients mixed with it, are the 
caufes of the Cure. Lob. 
Itis the patws Zheophrafti the flour or top ufed to be mixed with Clay 
or Lime, inftead of Hair or Straw for Buildings, to keep the Mortar from 
breaking. The Leaves of the Male, before it flours or Femina, are good 
for binding any thing withal, and are now ufed to make Mats. Herodotus 
tells us of the Z#dians inhabiting the Marfhes of the River, carrying Veftem 
gagivlw, Dod. 
The Leaves are ufed to cover Flasks, and for Chairs. Math. 
The Leaves of this are cut for the Papyrus by Dodoneus. C.B. 
Cuar V: 
Of Hlerbs with lefs perfect or Stamineous Flowers. 
Here are in this Chapter fome Plants which I confefs I believe 
may by thofe more skilful be reduced to other Families, fome 
of them having parts fo extraordinary {mall as not to be eafily 
vifible, and perhaps others have perfect Flowers, which efcap’d 
my obfervation. 
Some of thefe are alfo very anomalous that I could not find any other 
place than by their Face or Leaves to reduce them to thofe of Eyrope placed 
by the more skilful here. 
It may be objected to me that I have brought hicher Nettles, or called 
Plants to, which have many of them tricoccous Seeds, which had better 
been with the Ricini; to this { anfwer that the Hortus Malabaricus has de- 
fcribed feveral Plants under the name of Schorigenam’s, with the {ame kind 
of Fruit, and no body found any faule with the Authors of that Book, or 
Mr. Ray for reducing them thither. 
One thing in this Section falls very oddly, which is that in three or more 
forts of {uch Plants as by their Face muft of neceflity be efteemed Ricini by 
all People, there are perfe& Pentapetalous Flowers, and after thefe the Fruit 
follows contrary to thofe obferved hitherto by others. 
Before the Species of long Peppers are defcribed, there is an obfervation 
relating to them to betaken notice of in this place. 
I. Urtica racemofa fcandens, anguftifolia, fruttw tricocco. Cat. p 38: Tab, 
82. Fig. 1. An urticafolia Famaicenfts tricoccas, Muf. Corten. Plakenet. Alm. 
P- 393.2 Ricinus parvus urens urtice filio Banifter, Cat. Starp. Virg ? 
This has a woody, reddifh, ftriated Stalk, fomething cornered, as thofe 
of Nettles, which turns about any Plant or Tree it comes near, and rifes 
fix or féven Foor high, having a ftrong Bark, fomething like that of Hemp. 
Towards the tops of this Stalk are many two or three tnches long Branches, 
very thick fer with Leaves without any order. each of which has a half 
Inch long, rowgh Foot-Stalk, is Inch long, and half as broad near the 
round Bafe, where broadeft, and whence it by degrees leffens tillie ends in 
a point, having the Margins deeply cut, and being all over very thick fet 
with burning Hairs, as thofe of ordinary Nettles. Out of the 4s Ws the 
Gavés, 
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