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CucKow Flower, or Lady's Smock. 



C A R D A M I N E. 



A Very beautiful wild Plant, frequent in our 

 '^^ Meadows in Spring, and a great Ornament to 

 them. It grov/s a Foot high. The Leaves which 

 rife from the Root, are winged very regularly 

 and beautifully, and are fpread in a circular Man- 

 ner, the Stalk is round, thick, firm, and upright. 

 The Leaves that grow on it are fmaller, finely 



divided, and ftand fingly. The Flowers grow in 



a little Clufter, on that Spike on the Top, and 

 from the Bottom of the Leaves. They are large, 

 of a fine White, often tinged with a Blulb of 

 Red. 



The Juice of the frelh Leaves is to be ufed ; 

 it is an excellent Diuretic, and is good in the 

 Grave! and all SuppreiTions of Urine. It alfo 

 opens Obflruftions, and is good in the Jaundice and 



Green Sickncfs ; and a Courfe of it agaiafi: the 



Scurvy. 



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Cudweed. 

 G N A P H A L I U M. 



A Common wild Plant, but fingular in Its Ap- 

 "^^ pearance. There are many Species of it. 

 But that ufed in Medicine is the kind called the 

 middle Cudweed, a Herb Impious. It has this 

 laft name from the whimfical obfervation of the 

 young Flowers rifing above the old ones, 'which 

 is called the Son's gr-owlng above the Father. 

 This Cudweed is a little low Plant, it feldom rifes 



to a Foot high. The Stalks are tough, firm, 



v/hite, flender, and ppright ; they are very thick, 



^t with Leaves, which are fmall, oblong, white, 



and 



