"The Ufeful Family Herhal, 



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' The Leaf- Stalks are four Feet high, thic!c, 

 nollow, round, upright, an<^. of a rfe'difh Colour. 



The Leaves are hke thofe of the Reed kind, 

 long, narrow, and pointed at the Edges, and they 

 are of a hluilh green Colour. The Stalks which 

 bear the Flowers, are eight Inches high, tender, 

 loft, round, and as it were fcaJy. The Flowers ar& 

 rmali and redifh, and they ftand in a kind of Spike* 

 intermixed with a great Qiiantity bi fcaly Leaves. 



The Root is the only Part ufed ; it is kept by- 

 bur Druggifts J it is oblong and irregularly iliaped.- 

 It is a very good and fafe Diuretic, it always ope- 

 rates that Way, fometimes alfo by Swear, and it 

 opens Obftruftions of the Vifcera. But unlefs it 

 be new' and firm it has no Virtue^ 



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The Cot TON Tree. 



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Small Shrub, with brittle and numerous 

 Branches, and yellow Flowers : It does not 

 grow more than four Feet high ; the Leaves are 

 Large and divided each into five Parts, and of a 

 duflcy green Colour. The Flowers are large and 

 beautiful, they are of the Bell-fafliioned kind, as 

 broad as a half Crown, deep, of a yellow Colou.. 

 and with a purple Bottom ; the Seted-Veffels are 

 la-rge^ and of a roundifh Figure-, and they con- 

 tain the Cotton with the Seeds amono-. it. When 

 ripe, they burfl open into- three or ftkir Parts; 



The Seeds are ufed in Medicine, 6ut not fo- 

 much as the jr deferve, they are excellent in Coughs, 

 and all Diforders of the Breaft and Lungs, 3iey 

 eaule Expedoration, and are very balfamic and 

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