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given by the Country People in the Bloody Flu)^ 

 and Overflowing of the Menfes. 



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Fools Stones. 



SATYRIUM SIVE ORCHIS. 



Beautiful wild Plant in our Meadows and 



June. The 



It g-rows 



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fpotted, an^ the Flowers are purple, 

 ten Inches high. The Leaves are fix Inches 

 a*nd three Quarters of an Inch broad, of a very 

 deep Green, with large and irregular Blotches of 

 black in different Parts. The Stalk is round, 

 thick, upright, fingle, and fielhy ; it has two or 

 three fmaller Leaves of the fame Figure, and ac 

 the Top {land the Flowers, in a Spike of an Inch 

 and a half long •, they are not very large, and 

 of Shape different from the Generality of Flowers ; 

 their Colour is a deep and glofiy Purple; but 

 fometimes they are white. The whole Plant is 

 juicy. The Root confifts of two round Bulbs or 



two round Lumps like a Pair of Tefticles, and is 

 white and full of a flimy Juice. 



The Root is the only Part ufed. It is fuppof- 

 ed to be a Strengthener of the Parts of Genera- 

 tion, and a Promoter of Veneteal Defires ; but 

 with what Truth one cannot fay. Externally ap- 

 plied in Cataplafms, it is excellent in hard Swell- 

 ings. There are a great many other kinds of 

 Orchis in our Meadows, but only this is ufed. 

 The Root called Salep by our Druggifts, is 



_|-Lt from Turkey^ and is the Root of a Plant 

 of this Kind. It is ftrengthening and reftorative^ 



gopd in Confuniptioris and all Decays. 



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