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The Ufeful Family Herbal, 



are broad, objong, and jagged and prickly. The 

 Flowers grow in little Heads at the Tops of the 

 Stalks, and there ilands a Circle of fmall Leaves 

 under them. The Flowers, feparately, taken are 

 fmall, and of a pale greenifh White, but the Head 

 of them is tolerably large. The Root is long and 

 flender, and of a pleafant Talle. 



This 15 the Part ufed, the beft Way is to take 

 them candied, they are good againft Coughs, and 

 WeaknelTes of all kinds. They have alfo caufed 

 noble Virtues, as a Diuretic, and are good againft 

 the Jaundice, for this laft Purpofe a Deco(5lion 

 made from the frefh Roots is beft. They arc 

 balfamic as well as diuretic. 





The EupHORBiuM Plant. 



EUPHORBIUM. 



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A Very ftrange Plant, Native of the hot Coun- 



"^ tries, and unlike every thing that is known in 

 this Part of the World. It is ten or twelve Feet 



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high, and is of a folid thick Body, of a triangu- 

 lar or elfe a fquare Figure as thick as a Man's 

 Leg, and is divided by Knots placed at Diftan- 

 ces, fo as to feem made up of feveral Joints. The 

 Edges of the Body are all befet with very fharp 

 Prickles ; the Plant itfelf is compofed only of a 

 pulpy foft Matter, covered with a thick Rind, of 

 a green Colour ♦, it abounds with a milky Juice, 

 but fo acrid that tliere is no bearing a Drop of it 



The Plant often con- 

 fUls of one; fmgle Stem, fuch as is juft defcribed, 

 but frequently it fends out feveral Branches : Thefe 

 are naked in the fame Manner as the main Stem. 

 All that have befide the Prickles, are a kind of 



thin Films or MembraneSj fmall and growing 



from 



a Moment on the Tongue. 



