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The Cucumber Plant. 



' CUCUMIS HORTENSIS. 



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A Creeping flraggling Plant fufficiently known. 

 ''^ The Stalks are a Yard or two long, thick, but 

 Ipread upon the Ground, angulated -and hairy^. 

 The Leaves are broad deeply indented, and very- 

 rough, and of a bluifh green Colour : The Flow.- 

 ers are large and yellow. The Fruit is long and 

 thick; the Seeds are u fed in Medicine, and the 

 Fruit fiiould be fuffered to ftand till very ripe be- 

 fore they are gathered. They are cooling and di- 

 uretic, good againfl Strangueries, and all Difor- 

 dcfs of the urinary Paflages j , the beft Way of 



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them ji beat yp tp an Emulfion with 



The Wild Cucumber. 



CUCUMIS ASININUS. \ 



^jPHIS though called wild, is not a Native ^ 



England. It fpreads upon the Ground in tie 

 Manner of the other Cucumber, and its Branches 



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onfiderable Length : They 



hairy, angulated, and of a pale Green and tough. 

 The Leaves are broad at the Bafe, and narrow'at 

 the Point, ferrated round the Edges, and of a pak 

 Green above, and whitiih below. The Flowers 

 are yellow, and moderately large ; the Fruit is of 

 an oval Figure, hairy, and full of Juice. Caremufl 

 be taken in touching it when ppe, for the iharp 

 Juice flies out with Violence. 



^The Juice of the Fruit is prefTed out, and a thick 

 Matter that fubiides from it Is feparated and 

 dried j^the Druggifts keep this and call it Elathe- 



Purgative, b 



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