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Colour, and ftand at the Tops of the Branches: 
The Fruit is a large Pod. oe 
The only Subftance we owe to this Tree, is 
what we commonly call Gum Anime, but that is - 
a very ill Name, it is properly a Refin. It is 
= whitifh, brittle, and very fragrant. We fometimes 
alfo fee at the Druggifts a greenifh; brownifh, of 
redifh Refin, called Gum Anime; this comes from 
the Haff, and is what was originally known by 
that Name; but at prefent ‘the other only is ufed. 
It is a fine Balfam, good in Confumptions, and 
againft the Whites‘ And it is put into fome 
Ointments, for old Ulcers, with great Advan- 
tage. 
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Common wild Plant, in our Meadows. It is 
‘ eight Inches high, the Stalk is round, and 
hot very uptight: The principal Leaves rife im- 
= mediately from the Root, they ftand three toge- 
ther upon long Foot-Stalks, and are of an oval 
Figure, but pointed; of a pale green Colour, a 
little hairy, and have generally a white Spot in 
the Center of each. The Leaves on the Stalks, 
are of the fame Form, but little: The Flowers 
ftand at the Tops, in a Kind of fhort thick Spikes, 
they are {mall and red, and are followed by little 
: flat Pods: 
The Flowers are fed’; they are beit frefh ga- 
thered, and given in Infufion. They are good 
a ae pai the : Pak 
o of the Piles; and while they 
d aftringent in the Bowels, they 
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