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employed in various cutaneous difeafes ; wlien taken in pretty large 

 dofes it proves diuretic and laxative, efpecially the juice, which may be 

 mixed with whey, and ufed as a common drink. Dr. Culien clafles 

 this plant among the tonics ; he fays, " it is omitted in the London 

 difpenfatory, but retained in ours, and in every other that I know of. 

 I have found it ufeful in many cafes in which bitters are prefrribed * 

 but its remarkable virtues are thofe of clearing the fkin of many 

 diforders. For this it has been much commended ; and I have myfelf 

 experienced its good effeds in many inftances of cutaneous affedions, 

 -which I would call Lepra. I have commonly ufed it by expreffing 

 the juice, and giving that to two ounces twice a day: but I find the 

 virtues remain in the dried plant, fo that they may be extraded by 

 infufion or decodion in water ; and the foreign difpenfatories have 

 prepared an extrad of it, to which they afcribe all the virtues of the 

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ST NO NT MA. Genifta. Pharm. Lond. ^ Ed'inh, ' Gerard. 

 Emac. p. 131 1. Genifta angulofa & fcoparia. Bauh Fin. p. 

 395. Genifta vulgaris & fcoparia. Park. Theat. p. 228. Ge- 

 nifta angulofa trifolia. J. Bauh. Hift. vol. i. p. 388. Ray Htft. 

 ' ^7^3' ^Jfiop. p. 474. Spartium foliis inferioribus ternatis 

 hirfutis fuperioribus fimplicibus. Hal/. Stlrp. Helv. n. 354. 

 tium fcoparium. -Hud/on. Flor. Ang. p. 2^10. Withering. Boi 

 Arrang. p. y ^6. Flor. Dan. p. 2,1 i. ' ■ 



Clafs Diadelphia. Ord. Decandria. Lin. Gen. Plant, ^s^. . 



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■E^ Gen. Ch. *S*//^/;z^ longitudinale, fupra villofum. Filamenta ger 



mini adh^rentia. Cal. deorfum produdus. 



Sp. Ch. S. foliis ternatis folitariifque, ramis inermibus angulatis. 



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