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onthetopsof the stalks. The seeds are 'small, 



somewhat hai^y, and of a duskj^ colour. 



The seed is used ; and it is best given in pow- 

 der. It operates powerfully by urine, an*d it is 

 good against stoppages of the menses, and in the 

 gravel and colics, arising from that cause. It 

 • is also recommended against the dropsy and jaun- 

 dice. 



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Wild Parsnep. Fastinaca s^lvesiris. 



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A WILD plant, comnion about our road sides. 

 It is three feet high. The sldk is straight, up- 

 right, round, striated, and yellowish. The leaves 

 are composed of many broad divisionsy and resem- 

 ble those of the garden parsnep, but they are small- 

 er. The flowers are little and yellow : they grow 

 at the tops of the stalks. In large, rounded tufts, 

 and the seeds are flat, and of an oval figure. The 

 root is long, white, and well tasted. 



The root is to be used. A strong decoction of 

 it works by urioej'and opens all obstructions. It 

 is good against the gravel and the Jaundicej' 

 will bring down the mense*. 



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The Pa VAN A Shrub. Pavana 



A SHRUBBY plant of the East Indies, of a 

 beautiful, as well as singular aspect. It is six or 

 seven feet high. The stem is woody, firm, and 

 naked almost to the top. Thie leaves grow upon 

 long foot stalks, and they all rise nearly together, 

 at the upper part of the stem : they arc large, of 

 a rounded figure, and divided at the edges pretty 

 deeply into severy.] parts : their colour is a deep 

 gieen. The flowers are small, and of a greenish 



colour. The fruit is of the bierness of a hazte 



