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be frequently quoted in the enfuing pages, as (ranking with 

 Do(5tor Tbunberg) my beft authorities. 



The firft clafs comprehends the vegetables of ufe in medicine, Midicau 



Rofnmrinus officinalis^ Flora Japonica, 22. Fl. Cocb. 34. Sp. pi. i. 

 60. Gerard, 1292, cultivated here, a native of Spain, Italy, and the 

 Levanty introduced poflibly by the Fortugueje. 



N. 5.— 'Such fpecies which are peculiar to JapaUf have not the 

 mark Sp. pi. of Linnaus affixed. 



Urtica niveUi 71. Rumpb, ^mb.tdh.yg, f. i. Sp. pi. 4. 153, 

 Fl. Cocb. 683. Kaempf. Amozn. v. p. 891. A cauftic oil is expreffed 

 from the feeds ; the bark is ufed to make ropes, and the flrong 

 threads for weaving. 



F agar a piperita^ 64. Sp. pi. i. 333. Kaempf. Amoen. v. p. 892. 

 fig. p. 893. FL Cocb. I o I . The bark, leaves, and berries aromatic, 

 and ufed inftead of pepper ; the leaves ground, mixed with rice 

 flour, and formed into a poultice, ferve as a blifter in rheu- 

 matifms. 



Jpomoea iriloba, 86. Sp. pi. i. p. 451. Kaempf. Amoen. v. p. 

 856. 



Nicotiana tabacumygi.Sp. pi. i. p. 502. The plant, as the 

 name imports, introduced by the Poriuguefe, alfo the ufe. 



Sium ninfiy 118. Sp. pi. i. 694, Kaempf. Amoen. v. p. 818. fig. p. 

 819. The higheft cordial in all "Japan, and the deareft; the root is 

 brought from Korea, and ufed in moft medicines pulverifed ; a 

 pound cofts fix hundred imperials. 



Lycium barbarum, 94. Sp. pi. i. 525. Kaempf Amoen. v. p. 777. 

 Fl. Cocb. 165. The leaves are adminiftered to the fickastea; phy- 

 ficians prefcribe the eating the fruit ; the plant is ufed to inclofe 

 the fegments of the Japanefe gardens. 



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