Witp PaRsnep. 
PASTINACA SYLVESTRIS. 
Wild Plant, common about our Road: Sides, 
It is three Feet high. The Stalk is. ftrait, 
upright, round, ftriated, and yellowifh. The 
Leaves are compofed of many broad Divifions, 
and refemble thofe of the Garden Parfnep, but 
they are fmaller. The Flowers are little and yel- 
_ low: They grow at the Tops of the Stalks, 
in large ‘rounded Tufts, and the Seeds are flat, 4 
and of an oval Figure. . The Root is long, — 
white, and well tafted. > 
The Root is to be ufed. A ftrong Decottion — 
of it, works by Urine, and opens all Obftruéti- _ 
ons. It is good againft the Gravel and the Jaun- — 
dice, and will bring down the Menfes. 
The PAVANA SHRUB. 
PAVANA. 
feven Feet high. The Stem is woody, firm, and 
naked almoft to the Top. The Leaves grow up-. E 
on long Foot Stalks, and they all rife nearly toge- 
ther, at the upper Part of the Stem: They are A | 
large, of a rounded Figure, and divided at the — 
Edges pretty deeply, into feveral Parts: Their 
Colour is a deep Green. The Flowers are finall, — 
and of a greenifh Colour. The Fruit is of the — 
Bignefs of a Hazle Nut. The Wood is not very — 
firm, and when cut, yields a milky Juice, of @ 
very difagreeable Smell. a 
The Wood and the Seeds are ufed; and they 
have both the fame violent Operation, by Vomit 
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| A Shrubby Plant of the Eaft-Indies, of a beau- ‘ 
~ tiful, as well as fingular Afpect. Itis fixor — 
and Stool; but the Wood given in Infufion, and 
