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ey stand at the upper joints of the stalks, in little 

 ircels together. The whole plant has a strong and 



sagreeable smell. 



The whole plant is to be used fresh or dried. 

 It has been celebrated greatly as a sudorific, and for 



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and very singular in its manner of growth. It 

 produces two kinds of stalks, the one bearing the 

 leaves, and the other only the flowers. The first 

 grow two or three feet high, and are themselves 

 composed in a manner of the lower parts of leaves; 

 so that they seem to be only bundles of leaves rolled 

 together at the bottom. These are long, narrow, 

 and in some degree resemble the leaves of our com- 

 mon flags. The other stalks are tender, soft, and 

 about a foot high : they have no leaves on them, 

 but only a kind of films, and at the toos they 



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spike : these are small. 



shape like those of our orchis, and 

 lour, purple^ white, and yellow. The root spreads 

 irrej::ularly under the surface. 



The root is the only part used : we have it dry 

 at the grocers; but the best way of taking it, is 

 as it comes over preserved 'from the East Indies. 

 It is a warm and fine stomachic, and dispeller of 

 wind. It assists digestion, and prevents or, cures 

 cholics. It is als) an excellent addition to the 

 rough purges, to prevent their griping in the 

 operation. 



. Gladwyn, Xjjris size spatula fo^iida. 



A WILD plant of the iris kind, of no great 



