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and excellent purge ; it works also by urine. It is 

 good in the jaundice. The pulp is useful also io 

 cool the raoutb^ and quench thirst in fevers. It h 

 not much used singly as a purge. 



Tamarisk. Tamariscus. 



A LITTLE tree, frequent wild in France^ rmd 

 kept in our gardens : it grows^ liowever, raucli 

 larger in its native climate than here. The bark 

 is brown on the trunks and paler on the branches, 

 and the young shoots are red and verj slender. 

 The leaves arc very beautiful ; thej are of a fine 

 bright green, delicately divided into small parts, 

 and regular. The flowers are very small and red ; 

 but they stand in spikes, and very clo«e together ; 

 and as four or five of these spikes also often stand 

 together, they are very conspicuous ; the seeds are 

 small, and lodged in a downy substance. 



The bark is used dried, and the tops of the 

 oranches fresh; both have the same virtue; the 

 one is best in decoction, the other in a light in* 

 fusion, made in the manner of tea. Either is good 

 to open obstructions. They promote the menses, 

 ?.rc good in the jaundice, and it is said against the 



rickets. 



Tansy. Tanacctum 



A COMMON plant in our gardens. It is a 

 yard high : the stalks are round, firm, upright, 

 and of a pale green ; the leaves are largr*, oblong, 

 broad, and very beautifully formed ; they are each 

 compised of several pairs of smaller, set on esch 

 side of a common rib, with an odd leaf at the end. 

 These arc narrow, long, pointed, and .«j^Tratrd at 



the edges. The floweri stand in large clusters at 



