98 The U/eful Family Herbal. 
_ The Leaf-Stalks are four Feet high, thick, 
hollow, round, upright, and of a redifh Colour. 
_ The Leaves are like thofe of the Reed kind, — 
Jong, narrow, and pointed at the Edges, and they — 
are of a bluifh green Colour. The Stalks which — 
bear the Flowers, are eight Inches high, tender, — 
foft, round, and as it were fcaly. The Flowers are — 
fmall and redifh, and they ftand in a kind of Spikes — 
intermixed with a great Quantity of fcaly Leaves. _ 
The Root is the only Part ufed; it is kept by — 
eur Druggifts ; it is oblong and irregularly thaped. 
‘Tt is a very good and fafe Diuretic, it always 
rates that Way, fometimes alfo by Sweat, it 
epens Obftructions of the Vifcera. But unlefsit 
be new and firns it has no Virtue. — 
: The Corton TREE. 
: GOSSYPIUM SIVE XYLON 
: Small Shrub, with brittle and numerous 
~~ Branches, and yellow Flowers: It does not 
Stow more than four Feet high; the Leaves 
- far e and divided each into five Parts, and of 
auiky green Colour. ‘The Flowers are large an¢ 
beautiful, they are of the Bell-fafhioned kind, 
broad asa half Crown, deep, of a yellow Colo 
and with a purple Bottom; the Seed-Veflels 
7 large; and of a roundith Figure, and they com 
_ tain the Cotton with the Seeds among it. ‘Wheo 
pe, they burft open into three or four Parts. _ 
The Seeds are ufed in Medicine, but not © 
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