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cilaginous quality^ he might have guessed this io 

 be its virtue, from what he before knew of medi- 

 cine. The next plant he meets, we will suppose 

 is the common mallow, and afterwards the liith 

 trhite flowered mallow, which lies upon the 

 ground ; he tastes the roots of these, and he finds 

 they arc like the other : he will therefore guess^ 

 that they have the same virtues and upon trial, 

 he will find it is so. 



But this is not all : if he had examined the 

 flower of the marshmallow, in what manner it 

 was constructed^ and how the little threads grew 

 within it, he would have found that the flowers 

 of these other two mallows were, in all respects, 

 like those of the other ; and farther, he would 

 have found, that the seeds of these two kinds 

 were in the same manner disposed in circular bo- 

 dies : from this he might, without tasting their 



roots, have been led to guess that their virtues 

 were the same ; or having guessed so much from 

 thisj he might have been thence led to taste them. 

 End by that have been confirmed in it : but he 

 might be carried farther ; he would find the same 

 sort of round clusters ot seeds in the hollyoak 



in his garden ; and upon examining the single 

 flowers, he would see they were also alike : and 

 hence he would discover that it was of this kind ; 

 and he would rightly judge that the hollyoak, 

 also possessed the same virtues. 



This is a method by which many of the plants 

 mentioned in this book, have been found to have 

 virtues which others neglected ; for there are 

 many named in the preceding pages, and named 

 with great praise, of which others have made 

 little account : these arc the means by which the 

 first guesses have been made about their virtues; 

 and experiments have always confirmed them. 



