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Aron. 



ARUM. 



A Very common Plant under our Hedges, and 

 -'*' more vulgarly called Cuckowpint, and, by 

 the Children, Lord and Lady. The Root is of 

 the Bignefs and Shape of a Walnut, brown on 

 the outfide and white within, and this, as well as 

 the whole Plant, is of a fharp and acrid Tafle. 

 This Root lies deep. The Leaves are large and 

 fhaped like the bearded Head of an Arrow, of 

 a ftrong green Colour j and fometimes fpotted. 

 In Jpril and May rife ajnong thefe thick Stalks 

 fupporting a very fingular kind of Flower, the 

 Pointal of which is long, thick, flefhy, and of a 

 red or white Colour, and the whole furrounded 

 with a green membranaceous Cafe. Afterwards 

 this Cafe and the Pointal fall off, and there re- 

 mains only the Stem fupporting a Qiiantity of 

 Berries, which are ripe in Autumn, and are then 



of 



The Root is the Part ufed. It 



Medicine in Paifies. Half one of the Roots, frelh 

 gatliered and bruifed, will fometimes rellore the 

 Speech at once ; and a continued Ufe of them goes 

 a great Way toward a Cure. It is alfo good in 

 fcorbutick Cafes, and in all inward Obllruftions. 

 Some dry and powder it, but it then lofes al- 

 moll ail its Virtue. 



Ar SMART OR Water-pepper. 



PERSICARIA URENS. 



Common wild Herb, ncglefted but of great 

 Virtues. It grows every-where about Ditches, 



and in watery Places. It is a Foot and a half high; 



the Stalks are weak, green or reddilh, and jointed. 



The 



