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are talked of differently. Some people fay 

 it kills the worms, others again pretend 

 that it forwards their encreafe. But I know 

 by my own experience, that this worm- 

 feed has had very good effects upon children. 



The Purjlain, which we cultivate in 

 our gardens, grows wild in great abundance 

 in the loofe foil amongft the maize. It 

 was there creeping on the ground, and its 

 ftalks were pretty thick and fucculent; 

 which circumftance very juftly gave reafon 

 to wonder from whence it could get juice 

 fufficient to fupply it in fuch a dry ground. 

 It is to be found plentiful in fuch foil, in 

 other places of this country. 



The Bidens bipinnata, is here called Spa- 

 nijh Needles. It grows fingle about farm 

 houfes, near roads, pales and along the 

 hedges. It was yet partly in flower ; but 

 for the greateft part it was already out of 

 blofTom. When its feeds are ripe it is very 

 difagreeable walking where it grows. For 

 they flick to the cioaths and make them 

 black -, and it is difficult to difcharge the 

 black fpots which they occafion. Each 

 feed has three fpines at its extremity ; and 

 each of thefe again is full of numerous little 

 hooks, by which the feed faftens itfelf to the 

 cioaths. 



In the woods and along the hedges in 



this 



