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than that date by 45 years, for over-againft the market-place 
in Cokhefter Hands a houie, whole back part is an ancient Ro- 
man building, but the front is of a later date, and built of tim- 
ber ; upon the bottom ill! ( which is almofl in the form of a tri- 
angular priim ) of one of the windows of the front, between two 
carved lions, Itands an elcutcheon, containing only thofe figure* 
1090. 
That Herbs of the fame Make and Clafs have generally the like 
Virtues 5 by Mr. Ja. Petiver. Phil. Tranl". N"* 255. p. 289. 
THAT plants of the fame figure or likenefs have generally 
much the lame virtues and ufe, will nor be thought an im- 
probable conjefture, efpecially when we confider, that the organs 
and ftru£ture of all plants of the fame family, or clafs, muft have 
much the fame veffds and du6is to compleat their regular forma- 
tion, and conlequently the juices circulated, and ftrained thro* 
them, cannot be very heterogeneous j and as for the mofl part 
their f:ent and tafte have a great affinity, ib of courfe their vir- 
tues likewife cannot be very different, i. And to inftance in the 
tribe of umbelliferous herbs ; it is the property of thofe to have 
the pofition of their flower-branches in fucn a manner as to pro- 
ceed from one bdfis or center, from which they expand them- 
lelves into an Umbella or tuft, whofe flowers confifl of five irre- 
gular. Of rather unequal ( that is differing in fhape and bigneis ) 
pentapetalous leaves, whence their leed is produced, which arc 
naked and double, or by their iplirting feem to be fo 5 this kind 
Mr. ^etivpr oblerved to be endowed with a carminative tafle and 
Imell^ they are powerful expellersof \vind, and therefore are good 
in ali flatulant diforders, and of great ule in the cholick, ^c, 
as aniie, caraway, cummin, angelica, fmallage, parfly, lovage, 
^c. rhe greateit virtues of theie plants lies in the feed, next in 
the roots, and in the leaves of ibme few of them. 2. The 
Q:^laKtkte Galeatde and VertiUat<e are a fpecies of plants that bear 
their flowers in rundks or whorles, at greater or lefs diftances 
round the Italk, whofc monopetalous flowers (if we may fo call 
them, being fuch at the bortomj being tubulous, and different 
from the la It mentioned, are generally divided into five un- 
equal fegments, as the umbelliferous ; but with this diftinc- 
tion> that the two greater \Petala or flower-leaves in this tribe 
are ibmctimes above, and at other times below ; whereas the 
others are conflantly the fame, that is always lie m the fame 
place, being expanded on a flat or plane furface ; the flowers 
of verticillared plants, are from the different pofition of their 
Tetaky diftinguiflied into Flores Gakatiae zndi Labiatice j the 
Calyx 
