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Dwale, i. e. Deadly Night^ade, 



Is a plant rankly poifonous throughout. Children, 

 allured by the beautiful colour of the berries, have 

 often fatally eaten them. They caufe a ftupor and 

 delirium, to which fucceed convulfions and death, 

 if not prevented by timely and ftrong emetics. It 

 has been fuccefsfully ufed in cancerous cafes. See 

 Ray^ and Phil. Tranfa^. vol. 50, p. 77. 



Buck-'Thortt. 



The fyrup is ufed as a purgative, but frequently 

 attended with much ficknefs and griping. The 

 juice of the unripe berries is ufed for ftaining maps 

 or paper yellow. The juice of the ripe berries 

 mixed with allum, is the fap green of the painters ; 

 but if they are gathered late in autumn, the juice is 

 purple. The bark affords a beautiful yellow dye. 



Ivy. 



The roots are ufed by leather-cutters to whet 

 their knives upon. The fmall branches ftuck over 

 the branches of wall-fruit in February, are the 

 beft prefcrvative againft froft afFeding the bearing 

 bloflbms. The leaves are often given to fheep 

 in deep fnows. 



Madnepf i. e. Cozv's Spondylium^ Cow Par/nip. 



The poor people in Poland prepare a liquor 

 from the leaves and feeds, which, when it has 



undergone 



