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Women after Travail, melted in a Pewter Veffel, fpread on Leather, 
apply’d to it till it comes off, as alfo good for Aches, and ftrengthens 
the Sinews, it is good againft the Gout, and cures Wounds. 
XIIE. Verbena nodiflova incana Curaffavica latifolia. Herm. par. Bat. pr. 
P- 383- Plukenet. Tab. 232. Fig. 4. Hort. Beaumont. Cat, Jam. p. 216. 
This had a folid, jointed, green Stalk, as big as a Hen’s-Quill, 
having at every three Inches Diftance, Joints, whereat ftood the Leaves 
oppofite to one another, on none, or very {mall Footftalks, being about 
an Inch long, and half as broad, near the further End, where round 
and broadeft, from the Beginning increafing thither, and being cut ia 
on the Edges, a little rough, and of a dirty green Colour, at the Joints 
come likewife fmall Twigs with Leaves like, but only fmaller than thofe on 
the main Stalk. Ex «lis Foliorum come the Flowers, ftanding on four 
Inches long Footftalks, like the others of this Kind, being naked, and 
of a yellow Colour. 
It grows by Rivulets in feveral Places of this Ifland. 
XIV. Acacie & Ceratonie media affinis altera, Breyn, pr. 2. 
This was gather’d in ‘Sfamaica by Mr. Games Harlow, and given me 
by Dr. Sherardy who had it at Sir Arthur Rawdon’s. 
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