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different flowers of the feveral fpecies, increafe the value and demand 

 for it at home. The citron water conftitutes a feparate, and no mean 

 article, for commerce. The fmaller fhaddock, or forbidden fruit, is 

 preferred by feme palates to the larger, for its fuperior fweetnefs. 



The feeds of all the fpecies have a bitteriHi, but pleafant tafte, and, 

 doubtlefs, wo\ild make very good emulfions, which might be kiccefs- 

 fully ufed, when the flomach is weak and languid, and cannot bear the 

 ftronger bitters; nor is it improbable, but they may prove an excellent 

 mixture with milk in confumptive cafes. They are very fuccefsfuUy 

 adminifirered in dry belly-aches, and convulfive fpafms ; and one of the 

 moft effeftual remedies that can be ufed to reftore weakly limbs to their 

 former vigour; but it fliould be continued for fome time, aided by re- 

 gularity and other affiftants, and ufed before the parts are emaciated. 



The fhaddock is generally in perfection in December; the orange 

 and lemon fpecies are to be had all the year round. 



148. Water Lemon. — PaJJiflora (4) foliis cordatis product is, &c. 



Br. p. 328. 

 This grows frequent in the woods, and fupplles the wild hogs with 

 a great part of their food in the feafon. It bears a beautiful flower ; 

 the fruit is a pleafant fub-acid, cooling, and highly refrelhing in fe- 

 vers; it is a climber, and makes very fine arbours. 



149. Liquorice Weed, or Sweet-Broom Weed. — Scopiiria 



ere^a ramofa, &c. 



150. Wild Liquorice, or Red-Bead Vine. — Glycine foliolis . 

 pinnatis, fpicis nodofis axillaribus. 



The firfl: grows, by a branched ftalk, to the height of 18 or 20 

 inches. The whole plant, efpecially the flender fhoots at the top, is 

 frequently ulcd in diluting and peftoral infufions, and may defcrvedlv 

 be confidered as an excellent vulnerary. 



The European liquorice grows well in this ifland, but It is inferior 

 in virtue to the fecond plant above-mentioned, which climbs in all the 

 hedges on the South fide, and winds itfelf about any flirub in its neigh- 

 bourhood. 



The ftalks are about the fize of a goofe-quill, fet with fmall winged 

 leaves, equal in number on each fide, and ranged oppofite to one ano- 



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