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Cardiack aflion; The juyce condeniate of Myrtles is alfo commended, as a 
good fubititute for Acacia. The excrefcence called Myrtidanum, is of greater force 
to dry andbind, chen either leate, juyce or feed, nr 
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Of Ciftus. 
The Names, , i3 : * 
is called in Greek xfs@ & siS@-, Ciftus & Cifthus alfo, in Latine; as if 
there were no pure Latine Word to expreffe it, yet fome call it Rofa Sslvatix 
ca, but we in Englith, call ic Ciftus. The undergrowth or excrefcence of 
the Ciftus ; whereof, I mean to intreat of alfo in this‘Chapter, is called i 
Greek veinuas, and Hypociftis isthe Latine Name, both for the Plant, and the 
juyce drawn trom it. é 
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or lictle Sun-flower, aries 
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The Dwarfe Ciftus fendeth forch fandry weak and {mall branches, -yer har 
and almioft woody; lying for the moft part upon the ground, round. 
pointed Leaves a peece,with Come threds in the middle,of a pretty {cent in fomn 
places, but of litle ornonein others, after which cometh the feed, whid 
fmall, and contained in {mall round heads : ithath a hard, woody, 
Root ing in time to be fomewhat great, but not very Jong, 
isitefinall branchee at che lower dict 2 ax s 
The firft which is the Gum Cifus groweth naturally in 
_ other hot Countrys: icy co ond, «which 
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