APPENDIX. 



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4 



Cojiccrning the virtues of plants which have not 



yet been tried. 



A 



S the intent of this work h frulv to be of use to 

 mankind^ the author who is desirous ofmakinff 

 that utility as extensive as possible^ cannot clore it 

 without observing, that^ notwithstanding the great 

 deal that is know n of the virtues of English plants^ 

 there is certainly a great deal more unknown ; and 

 there is room for great discoveries. 



The plants mentioned in this work are only four 

 or five hundred, and not all these of English 

 growth : if they were, they would yet be but a 

 very small number in proportion to the whole. 

 The catalogue of those native of our own country, 

 &9 published by Mr. Ray, amounting to many 

 thousands : great numbers therefore remain yet 



untried. 



To what purpose can a man devote the hours 

 of his leisure better, than to the discovering among 

 the number of the unregarded, virtues which may 

 farther supply the catalogue of our own remedies, 

 and make the roots and seeds brought from re- 

 mote countries less neecssary ? What encourage- 

 ment to the attempt, that there are such mul- 

 titude of objects for the trial ! and that the di^ 

 covering but one remedy among them all; f-^r 



