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ance from all the reft of the Plant, that they are 
called Flowers. The Root is long and covered 
with Fibres. The Plant grows in bogey Places, 
but it is not very common wild in England. 
A Decoétion of the frefh Roots promotes Urine, 
and opens Obftructions of the Liver and Spleen, 
it is not much ufed, but I have known a Jaun- 
dice cured by it, taken in the Beginning. 
FEVERFEW. 
MATRICARIA. 
A Common wild Plant, with divided Leaves, 
and a Multitude of {mail Flowers like Daifies; 
it grows about Farmers Yards. The Stalk is 
round, hollow, upright, branched, and ftriated, 
and grows two Feet high. The Leaves are large, 
divided into many fmall ones, and thofe roundifh 
and indented; they are of a yellowith green Co- 
jour, and particular Smell. The Flowers ftand 
about the Tops of the Stalks, they are {mall, 
white round the Edges, and yellowifh in the Mid- 
die. The Root is white, little, and inconfiderable. 
The whole Plant is to be ufed, it is beft freth, 
but it preferves fome Virtue dried; it is to be_ 
given in Tea, and it is excellent againft Hyfteric 
Diforders ; it promotes the Menfes. ee 
The Fic-TREE. 
FICUS. 
A Shrub fufficiently known in our Gardens. 
The Trunk is thick, but irregular, and the 
Branches, which are very numerous, grow without 
any fort of Order. The Leaves are very large, 
and of a deep blackifh Green, broad divideddeep~ 
 Ipat the Edges, and full of a milky juice. - 
Flowers are contained within the Fruit 
