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The Birrer Gourp, called Brr- 
TER APPLE. | 
COLOCYNTHIS. 
A Native of the Eaft, and of fome other warm. 
~ Countries, kept in our curious Gardens, and 
affording the famous Drug called Coloquintide. It 
is a {mall Plant of the Gourd kind. The Stalks 
are thick, angular, hairy, and of a pale Green. 
They cannot fupport themfelves, but have a 
Number of Tendrils growing from them, by 
which they lay hold of every Thing they come 
hear. ‘The Leaves are large,, broad, and very 
deeply divided at the Edges. The Flowers are of 
a pale Y@llow, large, and not unlike the Flowers 
of Melons. ‘he Frait is a round Gourd of the~ 
Bignet of the Jarpeft Orange. The Batk is hard, 
and the inner Part fpungy, with Seeds among it: 
Thefe are flat, hard, and of an oval Figure. 
‘The Fruic is the Part uled, they take off the 
Outer Shell, and fend the dried Pulpwith the Seeds 
pie Be : but thefe are to be feparated afterwards, 
_ and Pulp ufed alone. It is a very violent 
Purge, but it may be given with proper Caution, 
and it is excellent againft the Rheumatifm, and 
violent habitual Head-achs. Thefe rough Purges 
will reach the Caufe of Diforders, that the com- 
Mon gentle ones would not touch ; and the prefent 
Prattice denies the Ufe of many of the beft Me- 
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ES Gott Wort. 
PADAGRARA HERBA GERRARDI, 
A Common wildPlant over-running our Gardens, 
. and when once it has taken Root, very dif~ 
ficult to be got out again ; it grows two Feet high. 
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