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smell, but very foul. It is good in all diseases of 

 the breast and lungs, being an excellent balsam. 

 H is also good in all nervous and hjsteric com- 

 plaints, and it promotes the menses. 



The Strawberry Plant. Fragaria. 



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A VERY* common little plant, both in our 

 woods and gardens. The leaves stand three upon 

 each stalk, and they arc large, broad, sharp at the 

 point, and serrated about the edges ; the stalks trail 

 upon the ground, and take root at the joints : the 

 flowers are white; they stand four or five together 

 upon a long foot-stalk rising from the root and with- 

 out any veins : they are white, and moderately 

 large ; the fruit is well known. When ripe it 19 

 red, and of an agreeable taste. 



The fresh leaves are used ; an infusion of them 

 is 2;ood liquor to wash a sore mouth or throat ; 

 taken in large quantities, it works by urine^ and it 

 good against the jaundice. 



S V c CORY . Ciclioreian. 



A COMMON plant in our gardens. It is near 

 a yard high, but of no great beauty. The stalk 

 is round, striated, thick, green, and strong. The 

 principal leaves grow from the root ; they arr long, 

 narrow, and deeply indented, and are of a bluish 

 green, and hairy ; those on the stalks are smaller, 

 and have no foot-stalks. The flowers are of the 

 shape of those of dandelion, but they are blue ; 

 the seed is winged with down. The flowers grow 

 to the sides of the stalks, not at the tops, as in 

 dandelion. The root is long and brown on the 

 surface ; it is full of a milky juice, and white 



within. 



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