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The whole Plant is to be ufed dried. It is an 

 excellent Agringent. It flops the Overfiowings of 

 the Menfes, and the Whites, and is good againft 

 Bloody Fluxes and Purgings of all kinds. The 

 beil Way of taking it is in a ftrong Deco6lion, 

 which muft be continued fome Time. 



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Harts Tongue. 

 PHYLLITIS. LINGUA CERVINA. 



A Wild Plant of the Fern Kind, that is con- 

 filling only of Leaves without a Stalk, the 

 Flowers and Seeds being borne on the Backs of 

 them. But it has no Refemblance to the ordi- 

 nary Ferns in its Afpe6l. Each Leaf of Harts 

 Tongue is a feparate Plant, but there rife n^any 

 from the fame Root. The Foot- Stalk is five Inches 

 long, the Leaf an Inch and a quarter broad, 

 largeft at the Bottom, and fmaller to the Top, 

 tifually fimple, but fometimes divided into two 



Parts at the End. Iris of a beautiful 

 Green at the upper Side, fomewhat paler under- 

 neath, and the Foot-Stalk runs all along its Mid- 

 dle in Form of a very large Rib. The Seed Vef- 

 fels are difpofed in long brown Streaks on each 

 Side of this Rib, on the under Part of the Leaf, 



confpicuous than in moft of 

 the Fern kind. The Plant grows in old Wells, 

 and in dark Ditches, and is green all the Year. 



It is not much ufed, but deferves to be more 

 known. It is an excellent Aftringent, the Juice 

 of the Plant, taken in fmall Qiiantities, and for a 

 Continuance of Time, opens Obftrudions of the 

 Liver and Spleen, and will cure many of the moft 

 obftinate chronic Diflempers. 



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