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1^4 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 



Heads, and are fmall and redilli, four little Seeds 



fucceed to each of them. 



■Dodder is bed frelli gathered ; it is to be boiled 

 in Water with a little Ginger and Allfpice, and 

 the Deco(5lion works by Stool brifl<ly ; it alfo 

 opens Obflruclions of the Liver, and is good in 



the Jaundice and many other Dilorders arifins from 

 the like Caufe. 



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The Dodder which grows upon the Garden 

 Thyme, has been ufed to be preferred to the others 

 and has been fuppofed to pofTefs peculiar Virtues 

 from^ the Plant on which it grows ; but this is 

 imaginary: Experience fliews it to be only a Purcre 

 as the other, and weaker. The common Dodder 

 is preferable to it with us, becaufe we can ^ 

 frefh, the other is imported, and we only^have 

 dry ; and it often loofes a great deal of i 



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Hands of the Druemft 



D O G M E R C U R Y. 



CYNOCRAMBE. 



/V Common and poifonons Plant named here, 

 not as a iVIediclne, but that People who ga- 

 ther Herbs, for whatever ufe, may guard againfl 

 it. It is common under Hedges ; and in the ear- 

 lier Part of the Year makes a pretty Appearance. 

 People might very naturally be temptetl to eat of 

 it among other Spring Herbs, for there is nothino- 

 forbidding in its Afpcd: ; and what is much worfe^ 

 the Authors mofl likely to be confulted on fuch 

 an OGcafion, might lead thofe into it, whom they 

 ought to have guarded againfl it. 



It is about a Foot high, and has but few 

 Leaves, but they are large. The Stalk is round, 

 thick, whitiOi, pointed, and a little hairy; the 

 Leaves {land principally toward the Top, four, 



five. 



