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^24. The Vfeful Family Herhat. 



lour, and very rough, they feel almofl prickly. 

 The Flowers are little and yellow; and they 

 grow from the Bofoms of the Leaves. The Root 

 is long, flender, and of a red Colour. 



A Decodion of the freih Roots of Madder, 

 works gently by Urine, but it very powerfully 

 opens Obftrudions of the Liver and Spleen. It 

 Is very good againll the Gravel and Jaundice. • 



The True Maidenhair. 

 ADIANTUM VERUM. 



A Very beautiful Plant, of the fern Kind, but 

 exceeding the ordinary Ferns very much in 

 Delicacy. The Stalks are fmall, black, and glof- 

 ; each divides toward the Top, into a great 

 any Branches, and on thefe ftand the fmaller 

 Leaves, which make up the complete one, or the 

 whole Plant ; (for in this, as in the Fern, every 

 Leaf is an intire Plant ;) thefe are Ihort, blunt, 

 rounded, and notched very beautifully and regu- 

 larly at the Edges, and they are of a pale green 

 Colour. The Seeds are fixed to the Edges of the 

 under Side of the Leaves, in form of a brown 

 Powder. The whole Plant is ufed : Our Drug- 



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gifts have it from France. 



A Decocflion of the frelh Plant, is gently diu- 

 retic, and opens Obftruftions, efpecially of the 

 Lungs -, but as we cannot eafily have it frefh, and 



^ -eat deal of the Virtue in drying, the 

 beft Expedient is toufe the fine Syrup of Capel- 

 laire, which is made of an Infufion of the Plant, 

 when in its Perfeeflion, with fine Narbonne Ho- 

 ney. We fuppofe this a Trifle, but Barley Water 

 fweetened widi it, is one of the beft knawn Re- 



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edies for a violent Cough 



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