396 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
oing into a damp, or what is fufpected to bea 
tainted Air. : 
The ZERUMBETH PLANT. 
ZERUMBETHA. 
TTHE Zerumbeth Plant, in fome refpects re- 
fembles that which affords the Zedoary, but 
it is larger. It is a Native of the Eaf, and has 
not been yet got into our Gardens. The Leaves 
grow together in fuch a Manner as to form a 
Kind of Stalk; this is fix Feet high or more, but 
it is only formed of their lower Parts, wrapped 
round one another, in the Manner of the Leaves 
of our Flags. The loofe Part of each Leaf is 
Jong, narrow, and ofa bluifh Green. The Flow- 
ers {tand upon feparate Stalks, thefe rife about a 
Foot high, and are of a brownifh Colour: They 
have only a Sort of Films upon them in the Place ~ 
of Leaves. The Flowers ftand in a fhort and 
thick Spike, atthe Tops of thefe, they are oblong, 
hollow, moderately large, and of a beautiful Scars 
fet. - The Root is long and irregular. isn 
_ The Root is ufed, our Druggifts keep it ; it is 
warm and good in all nervous Cafes. Its Virtues 
are very nearly the fame with thofe of Zedoary 5 
and in general the round Roots of Zedoary are fold 
_ under its Name, though in Reality it be a much 
Onger as well as larger Root, than the Zedoary 
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