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| ‘The Ufeful Family Herbal, 111 
“The Flowers are greenifh and hollow. The Fruit 
is a large and round Berry, black, and of a fome- 
what difagreeable Tafte, growing in the manner of 
the Currants. 
The Juice of Black Currants boiled up with 
‘Sugar to a Jelly, is an excellent Remedy againft 
fore Throats. 
Lone CyrreRor 
CYPERUS LONGUS 
A Wild Plant in our Marfhes, Fens, and other 
damp Places. It is a Faot and a half high. 
The Leaves are a Foot long or more, narrow, 
affy, and of a bright green Colour, flat and 
tp at the ends. The Stalk is triangular and 
green; there are no Leaves on it, except two or 
three {mall ones at the Top, from which there 
rifes. a Number of fmall Tufts or Spikes of © 
Flowers. i Riis ol 
in all refpects like thofe of the other 
_Grafies. 
~The Root is ufed. It is long and brown, and 
when dried, is of a pleafant Smell, and aromatic 
warm Tafte. It fhould be taken up in Spring. It 
on 
is good againft Pains in the Head, and it pro- 
- Motes Urine. Mage eto ior ee 
Rounp Cyperus. — 
