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the Ureters. The fame Tops, frefli gathered and 

 bruifed, are good for Wounds and Bruifes ; they 

 ftop Bleeding, and ferve as a Balfam for one, and 

 they take oft' Blacknefs in the other. 



The Jujube Tree. 

 Z I Z Y P H U S. 



A Tree of the Bignefs of our Plumb Trees, and 

 not unlike to them in Shape. The Bark is 

 grey on the Trunk, and brown on the Branches. 

 'The Leaves are moderately large, and each is 

 compofed of a Number of fmaller ones, fet on 

 each fide of a middle Rib, but not oppoflte to 

 one another, and with an odd one at the End : 

 Thefe are oblong, obtufe, and ferrated round the 

 Edges, and the odd Leaf at the End, is the largeft 

 and longeft. The Flowers are fmall and yellow. 

 The Fruit is oval, and of the Bignefs of a mo- 

 derate Plumb J it has a foft Subflance on the Out- 

 fide, and a Stone within, which is large and long, 



and pointed at both Ends. 

 . The Fruit is pfed. It was at one Time brought 



over to us dried, but we fee little of it now i it 



was efteemed balfamic, and was given to cure 



Coughs, and to work by LTrinc. 



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The White Stock July Flowek. 



LEUCOIUM ALBUM. 



A Robuft Garden Plant, kept for its Flowers, 

 ■^ which Art variegates and makes double. It 

 grows two or three Feet high. The Stalk is 

 thick, firm, round, and ot a greyilh Colour. 

 The Leaves are long, narrow, hairy, and whitifh. 

 The Stalks which bear the Flowers, are alfo of a 

 whitifh Green, and tender. The Flowers are as 



broad as a SMlling, white, and fweet fcented. 



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