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FAivIiLY HERBAL. 



The root is used ; an infusion of it opens ob- 

 structions ; it is c^ood against the jaundice. A de- 

 coction of the whole plant, fresh gathered, >vorks 

 powerfully by urine, and is good against the gravel. 

 It also gently promotes the menses. 



The SuGAH C.iNE. Avundo saccharifcra. 



A KIND of reed, native of the East and West 

 Indies, of the Canary islands^ and of some other 

 laces; and^ cultivated in all our plantations. It 

 s eight or ten feet high. The stalk is rounds 

 hollow, hard, jointed, and upright; it is very like 

 that of a common recd^ only so much thicker. 

 The leaves are like those of the reed, hut vastly 

 larger ; and the flower? are in the same manner^ dry, 

 hrown, and chaffy, hut the cluster of them is a 



long 



in the manner 



the snear will 



the stalk. In very hot countries. 



and stand in form of a bright powder ; this is native 

 sugar, and is what the antients meant when they 

 talked of honey growing upon reeds. We press out 

 the iuice. and boil it to the consistence ( 



f 



hich is afterwards refined 

 'wder or loaf-sue-ar. 



It were idle to talk of the virtues of sucrar, its 

 ns are sufficiently known, and are very great. 



Sumach. Rhus. 



A SHRUB, native of warmer countries, but 

 conunon in our gard'^ns. It is of a singular ap- 

 pearaace. It does not grow^ to more than ten or 

 twelve fpct hi^h ; the wood is hrittle, and the hark 

 13 brown. The leaves are lung and very beautiful, 

 each consists of a great many pairs' of imaller 



