APPENDIX. 27b 



it is disagreeable ; but its virtiiM are the same 



with those of hiiuce, onlv greater. There are 



kind 



have a bitfer 



milky juice, altogether like that of this letttice : 

 and thcj, also, have this opiate quality, I have 

 tried many of thenij but as they are none of them 

 equal to the great wild lettuce in this respect, if 

 would have been idle to have spent many wonk 

 about them. 



This general observation maybe carried a great 

 deaVfarther ; but it were the business of a volume, 

 not of a short appendix, to explain it at large. Ii: 

 general, the seeds of umbelliferous plants, that if. 



those which have little flowers in rounded cluster*^ 



(yeeded by two seeds, are good against 

 colics; those of carraway, anise, cummin, corian^ 

 der^ and all of that kind, arc produced by plants 



of this figure. Tn the same manner^ the verticil- 

 late plants, as they are called, that is, those which 

 have the flowers surrounding the stalks, as in mint 

 and thyme, arc of a warm nature ; and however 



they differ in degree and circumstance, they have 

 the same creneral virtues. 



as 



and 



Farther, such plants 



t? 



little virtues ; and, on the contrary, those which 

 have tho most fragrant smell, and sharpest 

 taste, have the greatest virtues, of whatever 



kind. 



In general also, those plants which have a strong 



but an agreeable taste, are most worthy to be 



ith respect to their virtues ; for they 

 ore generally the most valuable; and on the con- 

 irarv, when a very strong taste is also a very dis- 

 agreeable one ; or, in the same manner, when the 

 strong smell of a plant has also something heavv, 

 ■disagreeable, and overpowering in it, there is 

 mischief in the herb, rather than any useful qualify. 



