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B I T T E R-S W E E T. 



SOLANUM LIGNOSUM. 



A Common wild Plant with weak but woody 

 •**• Stalks that runs among oul: Hedges, and 

 bears Bunches of very pretty blue Flowers in 

 Summer, and in Autumn red Berries. The Stalks 

 run to tm Feet in Length, but they cannot fup- 

 port themfelves upright : They are of a bluifli 

 Colour, arid, when broken, have a very difagree- 

 able Smell like rotten Eggs. The Leaves are 

 oval, but fharp-pointed, and have each two 

 little ones near the Bafe -, they are of a duiky Green 

 and indented, and they grow fingly on the Stalks. 

 The Flowers are fmall, and of a fine purplifh Blue, 

 with yellow Threads in the Middle. The Berries 

 areobiong. This is little regarded in Medicine,,. 

 but it defer\''es to be better known •, we account; 

 the Night- Shades poifonous, and many of them 

 are fo -, but this has no Harm in it. The Wood 

 of the larger Branches, and the young Shoots of 

 the Leaves, are a fafe and excellent Purge. I 

 have known a Dropfy taken earlv cured by this 

 finjsrle Medicine. 



Blood-wort. 

 LAPATHUM SANGUINEUM. 



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Jl Beautiful kind of Dock kept in Gardens, and 



wild in fome Places. It grows to four Feet 

 high; the Stalks are firm, ftifF, upright, branch- 

 ed, and ftriated. The Leaves are very long and 

 narrow, broadeft at the Bafe, and fmaller all the 

 Way to the End. They are not at all indented 

 at the Edges, and they fland upon long Foot- 

 Stalks : Their Colour is a deep Green, but they 



are in different Degrees ftained with a beautiful 



Blood 



