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Flower ; and they are quite different from thofc 

 of the common Fennel, in Size, Shape, Colour, 

 and Tafte. They are long, ilender, or a pale Co- 

 lour, a little crooked, and deeply flriated. Their 

 Taft^ is fweetifh and a little acrid. 



As the Roots are the Part mofl ufed of the 

 common Fennel, the Seeds are the only Part ufed 

 of this. They are excellent in the Cholic, and are 

 ufed externally ufed with Siiccefs in Pultices to 

 Swellings. The Seeds of the common Fennel are 

 t7fed by feme, but they are very hot and acrid, 

 Thefe ^re preferable for internal life. * 



F E N N E L F L O W E R. 



NIG EL LA. 



A Singular and pretty Plant kept in Gardens. 

 ^**- It grows a Foot and half high. The Stalk 

 is firm, round, flriated, and upright and hollow. 

 The Leaves are divided into a Multitude of fine 

 Ilender Parts like thofe of Fennel, only very fmall 

 in Comparifon, and thence it had the Englip 

 Name of Fennel Flower ; they {land irregularly on 

 the Stalks, and are of a pale Green. The Flowers 

 ftand at the Tops of the Branches 1 They are fin- 

 gular and pretty, the Colour is whitifh, and they 

 are moderately large, the green Leaves about them 

 give them a very particular Grace. 



The Juice of the Plant frefh gathered, is good 

 for the Head-ach ; it is to be fniiffed up the 

 Nofe, and it will occafion fneezing, inwardly 

 taken it works by Urine, and i^ good in the 



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