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while in another ihcy arc found to be quiic uienefhial ; 

 which difference has been owing lo having gathered 

 roots leaves, &c. of a very different plant from the ical 

 one fo highly cftccmed in fomc particular (pot This 

 error is the caficr to commit, as it often happens that the 

 names of plant* growing in the northern p;ut> tit OtfOpC 

 are oftco gi'cn lo icveral ol thole of the fouth. though 

 (he plants thcmfclvcs are very different, not basing been 

 properly collated. As a proof of this 1 will adduce only 

 two inftances : I he Radix Ruglolli in Italy is taken from a 

 very different plant frooi our own (which is the Anchu- 

 & officinalis), a plant which 1 have bond In bvit lew 

 places of the fouth of Europe, and which is in general 

 rate. On the contrary, the fpcciei mentioned by Profcl- 

 for Retina in the firft iafii-ulm of his OWcrvations, 

 p. 11, under the name of Anchufi Italica, b there full 

 as common a\ the A. ofluhulis with us, and a ac- 

 cordingly there made ufc of: and though it i 

 much from our*, yet it l» confidcrod by molt of the bo- 

 tanilH of the fouth of Europe as the fame plant with the 

 above northern one, which they have never fcen. and of 

 courfe know not how to diuinguHh. In the garden 0* 

 KB bolptaltl Genoa, the Symphytum tubcm: 



flu ufc of the apothecaries inftead of the offi- 

 , male, which b the BOB Confolub, major Of the Materia 

 Medic*. 



I nafs over many funilar examples of different plants 

 being confidered as the lame in different pi 



though 



