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with the flalks. For they put them into 



pots with or without water, amongfl other 



fine flowers which they had gathered both 



in the gardens and in the fields, and placed 



them as an ornament in the rooms. The 



. . . 



Engli/h ladies in general are much inclined 



to have fine flowers all the fummer long, 

 in or upon the chimneys, fometimes upon a 

 table, or before the windows, either on ac- 

 count of their fine appearance, or for the fake 

 of their lweet fcent. The Gnaphalium above- 

 mentioned, was one of thofe, which they 

 kept in their rooms during the winter, be- 

 caufe its flowers never altered from what 

 they were when they flood in the ground. 

 Mr. Bartram told me another ufe of this 

 plant. A decoction of the flowers and 

 ltalks is ufed to bathe any pained or bruifed 

 oart, or it is rubbed with the plant itfelf 

 tied up in a bag. 



Instead of flax feveral people made ufe 

 of a kind of Dog's bane, or Limiceuss Apo- 

 cynum cannabinum. The people prepared 

 the flalks of this plant, in the fame manner 

 as we prepare thofe of hemp or flax. It 

 was fpun and feveral kinds of fluffs were 

 woven from it. The favages are faid to 

 have had the art of making bags, fifhing- 

 nets, and the like, for many centuries to- 

 gether, before the arrival of the Europeans. 



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