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ivtole plant appears like a naked shrub without 

 leaves or visible flowers. 



It has been supposed lately that coral is made 

 hy small insects, but this is an error ; polvpes live 

 in coral as worms in wood, but these don't make 

 the trees nor the other the plant. Coral is to be 

 reduced to fine powder, by grinding it on a mar- 

 ble ; and then it is given to stop purgings, to 

 destroy acid humours in the stomach, and to 

 sweeten the blood. They suppose it also a cordial. 

 Probably for all its real uses, chalk is a better me- 

 dicine. 



There are several sorts of white coral, which 

 have been sometimes used iu medicine ; but all al- 

 low the red to be better, so that they are not kept 

 in the shops. 



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Coralline. Corallina. 



A LITTLE sea plant frequent about our own 

 coasts and of a somewhat stony texture, but not 

 like the red or white coral. It grows to three 

 inches high^ and is very much branched^ and young 

 shoots arise also from different parts of the branches : 

 there are no leaves on it^ nor visible flowers, but 

 the whole plant is composed of short joints. It is 

 commonly of a greenish or reddish colour, but 

 when it has been thrown a time upon the shores, it 

 bleaches and becomes white ; it naturally growt 

 io shells and pebbles. The best is the freshest, not 



that which is bleached. 



It is given to children as a remedy against worou ; 

 a scruple or half a dram for a dose. 



CoRiANDEfi. Coriandrum. 



A SMALL plant, cultivated in France »n4 



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