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Fox-glove. 

 DIGITALIS. 



A Very beautiful wild Plant, in our Failures 

 •^■*; and about Wood Sides. TKe Leaves are 

 whitifli, and the Flowers large and red. It 



tliree Feet high. The Leavet are larp-e, Ions- 



rough on the Surface, pointed at the Ends, and 

 ferrated round the Edges. The Stalks are round, 

 thick, firm, and upright, and of a white Colour. 

 The Flov/ers hang down from the Stalk, in a kind 

 of Spike : They are hollow, red, large, and a 

 httk fpotted with white, they are fhaped like the 

 End of the Finger of a Glove. *- 



The Plant boiled in Ale, '\% taken by People of 

 robufl: Ccnftitutions, for the Rheumatifm and o- 

 ther ftubborn Coniplainis j it works violently up- 

 wards and downwards •, and cures alfo Quartan 

 Agues, and as is faid, the Falling Sickncfs. An 

 Omtment made of the Flowers of Fox . 

 boiled in May Butter, b^is been Ions famoi 



fcrophulous Sores. 



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The Fpankins^nse Tree. 



ARBOR THURIFERA. 



irge Tree, as is faid, a Native of the warm^ 

 Countries, but we know vtr^ little of it 

 Thofe who defcribe it mofl, only fay that the 

 Trunk IS thick, the Wood fpungy, and the Bark 

 rough. The Leaves they fay are narrow, and of 

 a pale Green : But as to the Flower and Fruit 

 fhey are filcnt. Some fay it is thorny 



All that we ufe i3 the dry Refin, which is of a 

 pllowifh white Colour, and bitterifh reiinous Tafte, 

 M ftrong Smell. Our Druggifts keep this! 



Whatever Tree produces this, it is a noble Balfami 



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