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upon the British Rhubarb, it appears to be of the same 

 medicinal quality with that which is imported ; but not 

 quite so active in its operation, which is supposed to be 

 owing to some want of skill or knowledge in curing it. 

 In the month of April the tender foot-stalks of the 

 leaves of this plant are used in pastry as a substitute 

 for green gooseberries, which, as is said by a sententious 

 author, while it pleases the palate with novelty may be 

 tolerated, but nobody eats Rhubarb tart twice. 



FLOWERING RUSH, is the only British plant c . 0r i«*; 



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of the ninth class in the Linnaean System $ it grows in 

 ditches, and on the margins of rivers and ponds, chiefly 

 in a gravelly soil, and blosoms in July. Like several 

 of our aquatic flowers,, it may be reckoned amongst 

 the most ornamental. It is sufficiently hardy to bear 

 the cold of Lapland. 



