no FAMILY HERBAL. 



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in the rest, in form of a brown dust, on the undcf 

 part of these leaves. 



The plant grow s frequently on the sides of old 

 wells and on damp walls, and it is used «itire. A 

 syrup, made from an infusion of it, is the best shift 

 we could make for the true French capellaire ; but 

 that is so easy to be had, that no such shift is neces- 

 sary : aa infusion of the dry plant may also be 

 used* 



White Maidenhair. Adiantum album. 



A VERY' little plant of the fern kind, and of 

 tne nature of the two others just described. Some 

 will be surprised at the calling it a very little plant, 

 having seen leaves a foot long, sold in Covent Gar- 

 den, under that name ; but this is an imposition : 

 they sell a kind of water fern under this name. 

 The real white maidenhair, is not above two inches 

 high. The stalks are very slender, and of a whitish 

 green, not black as in the others. The leaves 

 are divided into a great many small parts, and at 

 first sight they have some resemblance of the leaves 

 of rue. The seeds are contained in brown lumps, 

 behind the leaves, covering the greatest part of the 

 surface. 



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This is no^ uncommon in old walls : it has the 

 same virtues with the others against coughs, and 

 a decoction of it is also strongly diuretic, and good 

 against the gravel, and all stoppages of urine. 



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Black. Maidenhair. Adiantmn nigi^um^ 



ANOTHER of the small plants of the fern kin^/ 

 and more ot the shape and form of the common 

 ferns, than any yet described. It is like the coro- 



