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alyx IS common to all the 11 
fcales 
are 
gled 
m 
fi 
polifhed and hooked ; the flowers 
pofed in head 
d fland 
branches; the corolla is 
each havin 
mbrlcated, globular, the exterior 
threads, firm, elaftic, and their 
311S, dif- 
on the 
numer 
alternately up 
pound, the fli 
footftalks 
fi 
s purple, tubular 
the limb divided into five pointed fegments: the ftamin; 
white, and filiform : the anthercT unite 
tub 
bluifh. colour, and projed beyond the corolla ; the eerm 
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of 
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fom 
what triangular, the flyles white, and longer than the ftamina, and the 
ftigma bifid : the feeds are oblongj brown, and have irreg 
furfaces 
b 
This plant is common in v^afle grounds and road fid 
in July and Auguft, and is 
which ;ftick to the clothes 
flowers 
well known by the burs, or fcaly heads, 
a circumflance from whence the word 
Lappa is fuppofed to be derived.^ The Pharmacopoeias dired the 
for medical ufe 
as It wer 
with 
has no fmell, but tafles fweetifh 
a flight 
o 
bitteriflmefs and 
d mixed 
\ 
according to Bergius, is inundificans, diuretica, diaph 
ghnefs. Its virtue. 
many inflances are upon 
and 
d 
ployed 
tifm, gout 
iety of 
had an opportunity of obf 
d pulmonic compl 
the efFeds of 
which it has been fuccefsfully 
difeafes, as fcurvy, rheuma- 
diureti 
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We have 
5 except 
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and in this way we have known it fucceed in two dropfical 
cafes, where other powerful medicines had been ineffeaually ufed : 
and as it neither excites naufea nor increafes irritation, it „ 
fionally deferve a trial where more adive remedies are improp . . 
feeds alfo pofTefs a diuretic quality, and have been given with advan- 
the dofe of a dram in calculous and nephritic complaints, and 
may 
The 
form of emulfion as a pedoral 
The root is generally ufed 
^ecodion, which may be made by boiling two ounces of the frefli 
root in three pints of water to two, which, when intended as a 
d 
twenty-four 
fhould be taken in the courfe of two days, or if pofllbl 
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Mat. Med 
I^appse 
Galliar 
Vide Reverlus, Obf. 41. 
Trav lambere. Ray. 
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..The young ftems of this plant, ftrlpped of their rind, are boiled and eat like afparagus 
>y hen raw, they are good with oil and vinegar. Withering, 864. 1. c. 
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