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this | ple tie Anthemis arvensis, ‘the figure of which i in Engli 
botany, he refers to. 1 cannot conceive how he has fallen into. this 
palpable error; for the arvensis is strikingly unlike the A. Cotula. 
“ Toads are said to be fond of this plant. ‘It is very ungrateful and 
*« displeasing to bees. Goats and sheep are ‘Not: ond bo * Horses, 
it : pte 5a eet * Aga. 
“ cows, and swine refuse it Mer 7 
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MEDICAL PROPERTIES. ae ae 
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aigianee: -~ tg gree eS ig ef z “see s ; ig: 
- The medical virtues of rane have long been spoken 
but still have been imperfectly known. Few of our common Splatt 
have been more extensively employed in domestic ‘medicine, and 
by” empirics, than this, and yet scarcely is a physician to be 
met with who speaks decidedly of its virtues. Extensive enqui- 
ries have led me toa knowledge of the fact of its common, nay 
= — ae ‘induced me ‘to make some trials of 
which ‘it was reputed useful. It may be first proper to 
* Lin. Withering, and Purton. 
