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'ouc^h looking Plant, cultivated in many 

 Places for the Sake of the Root. It is a 



nr more. The Stalk is round, ftna- 



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Yard high or more. 



ted and branched: The Leaves are long 

 br-e, each is compofed of a great many Pairs 



lajkr, ftanding on a middle Rib, with an odd 

 one at the End; thefe are of an oval Figure, of a^ 

 dufky green Colour, and they are clammy to the 

 Touch The Flowers are very fmall and blue, 

 they Hand in long Spikes, rifing from the Bofoms 

 of the Leaves. The Seeds are contained in i ods. 

 The Root is the Part ufed -, and its Virtues are 

 very great. It is beft freflitaken out of theGround 

 the Sweetnefs of its Tafle renders it agreeable, and 

 it is excellent againft Coughs, HoarfenefTes and 

 Shi)rtnefs of Breath. It alfo works gently by Urmc, 

 and is of Service in Ulcerations of the Kidneys, 

 and urinary Pafiages, afting there as in Lungs at 

 once, as a Detergent and Balfarnic. _ 



The beft Way of taking it is by fucking or 

 chewing the frefh R^oot : But it may be takeji in 

 Infufion, or in tl.e Manner of Tea. The biack 

 Subftance called Liquorice Juice, and Span^j Li- 

 quorice, is made by evaporating a ftrong Decoc- 

 tion of this Root. But the frelli Root itfelt is 

 i>etter, 



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