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The PRIMROSE. 
PRIMULA VERIS. 
i A Very pretty, and very common Spring Plant. — 
The Leaves are long, confiderably broad, of 
apale Green, and wrinkled on the Surface: They 
grow immediately from the Root in confiderable 
Numbers. The Stalks which fupport the Flowers 
are fingle, flender, four or five Inches high, a 
little hairy, and have no Leaves on them: One 
Flower ftands at the Top of each, and is large, 
white, and beautiful, with a yellow Spot in the 
Middle. ‘The Root is fibrous and whitith, 
The Root is ufed. The Juice of it, fnuffed up 
the Nofe, occafions Sneezing, and is a good Re- 
__ medy againft the Head-ach. The dried Root 
' ——— has the fame Effect, but not fo power- 
lly. 
Privette. 
’ LIGUSTRUM. 
Little wild Shrub in our Hedges. It grows | 
four Feet high. The Stalks are flender, 
tough, and covered with a fmooth brown Bark. 
The Leaves are oblong and narrow: They are 
_ fall, of a dufky green Colour, broadeft in the 
Middle, and placed in Pairs oppofite to one ano- 
ther, and they are of a fomewhat firm Subftance, 
and have no indenting at the Edges. The Flow- 
ers are white and little, but they ftand in Tufts at 
the Ends of the Branches, and by that make a 
good Appearance. The Fruit is a black Berry, 
one fucceeds to every Flower in the Clufter.  _ 
The Tops are ufed; and they are beft when the 
Flowers are juft beginning to bud, A ftrong In- 
fufion of them in Water, with the Addition iF a 
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