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Quality of the Principal of them as an Objeflion, 

 llrengthen the Obfervationi for the Garden Let- 

 tuce alfo has an Opiate Quality. This wild one 

 poflefles it in a greater Degree, but (lill in fuch 

 Degree, that it is an excellent Medicine, not at all 

 dangerous. Its bitter Tafte would prevent, Peo- 

 ples eating it, for it is difagreeable j but its Virtues 

 are the fame with thofe of Lettuce, only greater. 

 There are fome Kinds of Hawkv/eed alfo, which 

 have a bitter milky Juice, altogether like to that 

 of this' Lettuce; and they alfo have this Opiate 

 Quality. I have tried many of them, but as they, 

 are none of them equal to the great wild Lettuce 

 in this RefpecSt, it would Kave been idle to have 

 fpent many Words about them. 



This general Obferv^tion may be carried a great 



deal farther ; but it were the Bufinefs of a Volume, 



fhort 



In 



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of umbelliferous Plants, th 



is, thofe which have little Flowers in rounded 

 Clullers, each fucceeded by two Seeds, are good a- 

 ^ainftCholics ; thofe of Carraway, Anife, Cummin, 

 Coriander, and all of that Kind, are produced by 

 Plants of this Figure. In the fame Manner the 

 verticillate Plants as they are called, that is, thofe 

 which have the Flowers furrounding the Stalks, as 

 in Mint, and Thyme, are of a warm Nature; and 

 however they differ in Degree and Circumftance, 

 they have the fame general Virtues. Farther, fuch 

 Plants as are infipid to the Tafte and Smell, have 

 generally little Virtues; and on the contrary, thofe 

 which have the moft fragrant Smell 5 and Iharpcft 

 Tafte, have the greateft Virtues of whatever 



Kind. . . f , 



In general alfo, thofe Plants which have a irrong 



but an agreeable Tafte, are moft worthy to be 



examined with refpea: to their Virtues ; fjr they 



