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Tlie Fruit is the Part ufed. . Held in the Moulh, 

 It cures the Tooth- ach, for its Heat and Acrimo- 

 ny are greater than in Peilitory of Sfain^ and it 

 fills the Mouth with WtLte'c Applied externally, 

 bruifed, and minced with Honey and crumbie4 

 Bread, it is good for a Quinzy. 





Periwinkle. 

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Very pretty ^ creeping -Plant, Wild in foni 

 Places, but kept in Gardens 'alfo. The 

 .Stalks are numerousj and .a Foot or" more in 

 Length, but they do not Hand upright : They 

 are round, green, and tough, and generally trail 

 upon the Ground. The Leaves are oblong, 

 broad^ of a fhining green Colour, fmooth on the 

 Surface, and placed two at each Joint, • The 

 Flowers are large and blue; Tltey are Bell- fa'- 

 fhioned, and Hand on long F'oot Stalks : The 

 •Friiit "fucc^edrng. Each is cornpOfed of two 

 longifli P<5ds; each contairting fevt^ral Seeds. 



The whole Plant is ufed frefh. It is to be 

 boiled in Water, and the Decoftion drank with 

 a Httle red Wine in it. It flops the Overflowing 

 of the Merifesj and the Bleeding of the Piles, 



SPEIT, OR St. PtTERS-CoRK, 



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\ Plant of the Corn Rind, refembling Barley, 

 - "*■ fown in fome Parts of Europe^ but not much 

 known in ^figlqnd. It grows a Foot and a half 

 1high. The Stalk is round, hollow, jointed, and 

 green ; the Leaves are grafly, but broad. At 

 the Tops of the Stalk Hands an Ear like that 

 of Barley, but fmaller and thinner, though vith 



loner Beards ; the Grain is not unlike Barley in 



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