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yellowifh, they grow in great Numbers on the 

 Top of tlie Stalk, and are naked, and of a rough 

 Appearance. The Seeds are longirti, and of a pale 



Brown, 



The Tops of the young Branches are ufed : 

 A Decoction of them is good againft Worms, 

 but it is a very difagreeable Medicine. Beaten 

 into a Conferve with three Times their Weight of 

 Sugar, they are not \-ery unpleafant, and they 

 are in this Form good againil nervous Diforders, 

 and in all hyfleric Complaints. 



Sow THISTLE. 



SONCHUS ASPER. 



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A Commpn Weed in our Gardens, and about 

 '**' our Houfes. It is three Feet high, the Stalk 

 ^s round, thick, green, and upright. The Leaves 

 are long, and not very broad, they are indented 

 at the Edge?, and prickly between the Indentings. 

 When any Part C)i the Pl^nt is broker), there runs 

 out a milky Juice. The Flowers are large, and 

 yellow : They are Ibmewh^t lik? thofe of Dande- 

 lion, and ftand in a Kind of fcaly Cup. The 

 Seeds have Down a|I:xed to them. The Root 

 is long and wjiite. 



The Leaves are to be ufed frefii gathered, a 

 flronglnfufion of them works by Urine, and opens 

 Obftruccions. Some eat them in Sallets, but the 

 Infufion has more Power. There are thre^ or 

 four other Kinds of Sowthiftle, common in fome 

 Places with this, and they have all the fame Vir- 

 tues, but this has them moil in Perfeclioji. 





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