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A Common wild Plant, in m^ny Parts of Europe 

 •*^ and in the Grecian Iflands, but not here : We 

 have it in Gardens. It is a Foot and half high. 

 The Stalk is round, hairy, and branched, the 

 Leaves are oblong, moderately broad, and round- 

 ed at the Ends, and of a ^^^fky Green. The 

 Flowers are yell6w and large, they relemble the 

 Mangold ; it is fihgular, that there ftand fome 

 Leaves under this Flower difpofed In Rays like a 

 Star; the Root is long". ^ "' 



The frefh Leaves are ufed, and that only ex- 

 ternally. Bruifed, and laid on asaPultice-, they arc 

 a Cure for Buboes, and other hard Swellings. 



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Wild Plant on our Heaths, but not very 

 coinmon. It is two Feet high ; and extremely 

 branched,' the Stalks are round, hard, and whitifh. 

 The principal Leaves rife from the Root, and arc 

 difpofed in a circular Manner on the Ground. 

 They are oblong, and divided along the Sides, 

 quite to the middle Rib, diere are fome fmaller on 

 the Stalk, but few. The Flowers are numerous: 

 They are red, nnd of the Form of the Flov.ers of 

 Thiflles. They grow out of a f^aly and thorny 

 Head. The Seeds are winged with Down. The 



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The Root is ufed; a ftrong Infufion oi" it is ex- 

 cellent againft the Gravel, and is good alfo in the 

 Jaundice. It opens Obftruftions, and works by 



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