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I46 TJje Ufeful Family Her hat. . ^ 



they (land irregularly. The Leaves are oblong, 

 narrow, and Hiarp-pointed, and they do not grow 

 in two even Rows, as is in the other, but itand 

 irregularly on the Twigs. The Cones are long» 

 ilender, and hang downwards. The whole Tree 

 l/:is a flrong refinous Smell. 



The Tops of this are boiled in Diet Drinks a- 

 gainfl the Scurvy as the other, but they make the. 

 Liquor much more naufcous-, and not at all bet- 

 ter for the intended Purpoies. 



Pitch and Tar are the Produce of the Fir Tree, 

 as alio the Strafburg and fome other of the Tur- 

 pentines. The Larch Tree and Turpentine Tree 

 furnifhing the others, as will be feen in their Places. 

 The Wood is piled in Heaps, and lighted at the 

 Top, and the Tar fweats out at the lower Parts. 

 This being boiled, becomes hard, and is called Pitch. 



The Turpentines are balfamic, and very pow- 

 erful Promoters of Urine, but of thefe more In 

 tbeir Places : The Tar has been of late rendered 

 famous by the Water made from it ; but it was a 

 falhjonable Remedy, and is now but of Repute 

 again. 



SweetFlag. 



ACORUS, CALAMUS AROMATICUS 



DICTUS. 



tf. 



A Common wild Plant that grows undiftinguilhcd 



'^*' nmnng the Flag: 



and Rufhes, by 01 

 dcs. The old Phyficians meant another Thing 

 Calctnus Aromatici'.s : They gave this Name 

 to the dried Stalks of a Plant, but at prefent it is 

 11 fed as the Name of the Root of this. The S^veet 

 Flag grows three Feet high, but confifts only of 

 Leaves without a Stalk. They are long, narrow, 

 ?nd .of a pale green Colour. Amoncr thefe there 



are commonly three or four in all Refpeds like 



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