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Flowers are large and of a whitifh Colour veined 
and ftriped with Purple ; this is the beft Account 
we have received of the Plant; but Part of it 
comes with lefs Authority than one would with to 
Things of this kind. Fhe Root is dried and fent 
to us. hash2. ' 
It is a gentle’ Purgative, but it is lefs ufed 
at this Time than many others. It has been 
in more Repute perhaps with Reafon. 
HotLloak. 
MALVA ARBOREA. 
A, Common Garden Flower. (It .grows eight 
> Feet high, the Stalk is round, firm, hairy, 
and upright. The Leaves are large and round- - 
ih, of a deep Green, hairy and cut in at the 
Edges ; the Flowers are very large, red, white, 
_ Or purple, and ftandin a kind of long Spike. The 
Root is white, long, and thick, and is of a flimy’ 
Nature, and not difagreeable Tafte. 
This isthe Part ufed, 2 Decottion of it ope- 
_ Yates by Urine, and is good in the Gravel ; it has 
the fame Virtue with this Mallow and Marfhmal- 
low, but ina middle Degree between them more 
than the Mallow, and not fo much as the other, 
Nor is it fo pleafant. 
ont HonEworR?’T. 
_ SEELINU™M, SII FOLIIS. 
“A Commo n Plant inCorn Fields, and dry Places, 
with extremely beautiful Leaves from the 
Root, and little Umbels of white Flowers. Ie 
has its Englifh Name from its Virtues. . Painful 
swellings, are in fome Parts of the Kingdom cal- 
led Hone 
s, and the Herb from its fingular Fifect 
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