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T^e Ufeftil Family Herbal. 



Water 



The Water Lily. 

 NYMPH^A ALBA. 



Lame and eleo-ant Plant, the broad Leaves of 

 hich we fee floating upon the Surface of the 



^frequently ■, and in 



Brooks 



the Autumn large white Flowers among them. 

 The Root of *tlie f^lant is very long, and ex- 

 tremely thick, and lies buried in the Mud. The 

 Leaves rife fingly one on each Stalk, the Stalky 

 are round, thick, and of a fpungy Subftance, 



L white Pith in them •, and the Leaves alfo 



k and fomewhat Ipungy ; they are of^ 



fhFisure, and they lie flat upon die Surface 



The Flowers Hand UDon find^ 



tD 



are 



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of the Water. 

 Foot Stalks, arifing like thofe of the Leaves ft- 

 parately from the Root, and being like them, light, 

 round, glofly, and full of a white Pith ; the Flow- 

 ers are large and white, and have fome yellow 

 Threads in the Middlej the Seed-Veflel is large 

 and roundifh, and the Seeds are numerous. 



The Root is the Part ufed, and it is beftfrelh, 

 and given in a flirong Decoftion. It is a power- 

 ful Remedy in the Whites, and in thofe Weaknef 



fes left after venereal CompI 



It is alio good 



are 



.o«..,ft violent Purgings, efpecially where there 

 bloody Stools, There are other Kinds of 

 Water Lily in our Ditches, particularly a large- 

 yellow flowered one, whole Roots pofTefs the 



fame Virtues with the others but in a lefs De- 

 gree. . ' ' 





The 



