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are three Times as large as thofe of the common 

 Mallow, and very beautiful. The Seeds are dif- 

 pofed in the fame circular Manner, as in the com- 

 mon Mallow. The Root is white. 



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The Root is the Part ufed. It has the fame 

 Virtue with that of the common Mallow, but in 

 a lefs Degree. The Leaves alfo have the fame 

 Virtue, and are very pleafant taken in Tea. 



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Musk Mallow. 



BAMIA MOSCHATA. 



A Plant, not unlike the Vervain Mallow in its 

 -^^ Afped, but a Native only of the hotter 

 Countries. It is two Feet high. The Stalk is 

 fingle, round, thick, hairy, and upright. The 

 lower Leaves are roundifh, only indented a little 

 at the Edges ; the upper ones are divided into five 

 Parts, pretty deeply. The Flowers are of the 

 Shape of thofe of the common Mallow, and are 

 large, but their Colour is yellow. The Seed is 

 contained in a long Hufk, or Cafe, and is of a 

 Kidney-like Shape, and of a fweet perfumed 

 Smell. 



The Seed is the only Part ufed, and that, very 



rarely. It is faid to be good again ft the Head-ach, 



- but we feldom meet with it frefh enough, to have 



any Virtue. 



Mandrake. 



M AND R AGORA. 



J^ Plant, about which there have been a Multi- 

 . tude of Errors, but in which, there is in rea- 

 hty, nothing fo Angular as pretended. There are 

 properly fpeaking, two Kinds of Mandrake j the 

 one with round Fruit, and broad Leaves, called 

 the Male > the othej: with oblong Fruit, and nar^ 



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