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TZ^ Vfeful Family HerhaL 313 



Virtue. The Conferve is beft made by beating 

 up the frefli gathered Tops with three Times their 

 Weight of Sugar. The famous Hungary Water 

 is made alfo of thefe flowery Tops of Rofemary. 

 Put two Pound of thefe into a common Still, with 

 two Gallons of Melafles Spirit, and diftill off one 

 Gallon and a Pint. This is Hungary Water. 



Rosa S l I s, or Sundew. 



ROS SOLIS. 



A Very fingular and very pretty little Plant, 

 ■"" common in boffory Places on our Heaths. It 



grows fix or feven Inches high. The Leaves all 

 rife immediately from the Root, they are roundilli 

 and hollow, of the Breadth of a filver Two-pence, 

 and placed on Foot- Stalks of an Inch long, they 

 are covered in a very extraordinary Manner with 

 long red Hairs, and in the midft of the hotteft: 

 Days, they have a Drop of clear Liquor, (landing 

 on them. , The Stalks are flender and naked; at 

 their Tops' ftand little white Flowers, which are 

 fuccccded by Seed-Veffels, and of an oblong 

 Form, containing a Multitude of fmall ^t^i^%. 



The Root is fibrous. 



The whole Plant is ufed frelh gathered. It is 

 cftcemed a great Cordial, and good againft Con- 

 vulfions, hyfteric Diforders, and Tremblings of 

 the Limbs ; but it is not much regarded. 



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Rhubarb. 



AB ARBARUM 



A Tall, robuft, and not unhandfome Plant, a 

 ^;::ive of many Parts of the Eafl^ and of lars 

 got into our Gardens, after we had received many 

 others falfly called by its Name. 



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