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variegated flowers. It grows six or^ight inches 

 high. The stalks are rounds thick, firm, aud very 

 hard, the leaves are flat, broad, and very deeply 

 indented at the cdgta ; and they are of a bright 

 shining green* The flowers are little, and they are 

 terj bright; their ground colour iswhitc and Ihey are 

 atreaked and spotted with black and some ether 

 dark cdotiTSTw 



This plant has beeii always famous for dimnrsg 

 ^f §tghtj but whether e;?pcricnce warrants tbtf 

 character that is given of it is uncertain. The juice 



is very diuretic. 



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Fennel. Fceniciilimu 



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' A fcOMMON garden plant, kept f(*»r its me irt 

 ^e kitchen, rather than its medieiiial Tirtucs. 

 it grrrws six or eight fee€ high. The stalk is 

 round, hollow, and of a deep green colour; \h6 

 leaves are large, and divided into a vast num- 

 ber of fine slender segnients, and they are also of 

 a deep or bluish green colour. The flowers stand 

 at the tops* of the branches, and are small and 

 yelTow ; but there grow large clusters of them to- 

 gether; the seed is sniall, dark coloured, and stri- 

 ated, and is of a sharp acrid taste ; the root is long 

 and white. 



The root is the part most used; a decoction 

 made of it with common water, and tiiven in larjre 

 quantities works by urine, and is good against thfj 

 gravel and in thejaundice. 



Sweet Fennel. Feeniculum dulce 



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,A GARDEN plant yery like the common kitul 



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