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The Water LiLV. JVympJi^ea alba. 



A LARGE and elegant plants the broad IcavG? 

 cf which we see floating upon the surface ofth^ 

 Avaler in our brooks not unfreqiienlly ; and in the 

 autumn large white flowers among them. The 

 root of the plant is verj long, and extremely thickj. 

 and lies buried in the mud. The leaves rise singly 

 one on each stalk ; the stalks are rounds thick, and 

 of a spungy substance, having a white pith in 

 them; ^and the leaves also are thick and somewhai 

 Sl^ungy ; they are of a roundish figure^ and they 

 lie flat upon the surface of the water. The flow- 

 ers stand upon single foot stalks, arising like those 

 of the leaves separately from the root, and bfcing 

 like Ihera, lights roijnd, glossy, and full of a white 

 pith ; the flowers are large and white, and have 

 some yellow threads in the middle ; the seed-vessel 

 is larffe and roundish, and the seeds are numerous. 



The root is the part used, and it is best fre^h, and 

 given in a strong decoction. It is a powerful re- 

 medy in the whites, and in those weaknesses left 

 nfter venereal complaints : it is also good against 

 violent purgifigs, especially where there arc bloody 

 stools. There are other kinds of water lily in our 

 ditches, particularly a large yellow flowered one, 

 whose roots possess the same virtues w ith the other? 

 but in a less degree. 



The Lime Tree. Tilia 



A TREE common enough in parks and gardens, 

 and when in flower very beautiful and fragrant ; 

 the trunk is thick, and the branches grow with a 

 tolernible retz-uluritv. . The leaves are short, broad, 



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j)t a ngure approacluog to round, but terminating 

 in a point, and serrated about the ^dges. The 



