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Writer, fays if a Dropfy can be cured by the Hand 

 of Man, this Root will cfFevft it. I have foun4 

 it true in Praflice. 



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Florentine Flower de Luce. 



IRIS FLORENTINA. 



A Plant kept alfo in our Gardens, but not fo 

 frequently as the former j it fcarce differs in 

 any Thing from the common Flower de Luce, 

 except that the Flowers are white. The Root 

 fpreads in the fame Manner, and the Leaves are 

 flaggy. The Stalk is two Feet or more in Height, 

 and the Flower is as large as that of the blue 

 Kind, and perfectly of the fame Form. 



The Root of this Kind when dried, is fragrant. 

 The Druggifts keep it. It is good againft Difor- 

 ders of the Lungs, Coughs, Hoarfenefs, and all 

 that Train of Ills \ and it promotes the Menfes, 



Fl U E L L I 



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A Low Plant frequent in Corn Fields, and con- 

 fpicuous for its pretty, though fmall Flower. 

 The Stalks are five or fix Inches long, round, 

 hairy, weak, and trailing upon the Ground. The 

 Leaves are little, hairy, rounded, and placed ir- 

 regularly. The Flowers are very fmall, but they 

 are variegated with purple and yellow, both Co- 

 lours very bright, they have a Heel behind, and 

 each ftands upon a little hairy Foot Stalk, arifmo- 

 from the Bofom of the Leaf. ^ 



There is another Kind, the Leaves of which 

 have two Ears at their Safe, in other refpeds they 

 are the fame, and they have the fame Virtues. The 

 Juice of either is cooling and aflrinsent. It is 



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