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smell but very foul. It is good in all diseases of the 

 breast and lungs, being an excellent balsam. It is 

 also good in all nervous and hysteric ^complaints, and 

 it promotes the menses. 



Straw j? jni\ Plant. Fragaria. 



A very common little plant, both in our woods 

 and gardens. The leaves stand three upon each 

 stalk, and they are large, broad, sharp at the point, 

 and serrated about the edges ; the stalks trail upon 

 the ground, and take root at the joints : the (lowers 

 are white ; they stand four or five together upon a 

 long stalk rising from the root and without any 

 veins : they are white, and moderately large ; the 

 fruit is well known. When ripe it is red, and of an 

 agreeable taste. 



The fresh leaves are used ; an infusion of them is 

 good liquor to wash a sore mouth or throat ; taken 

 in large quantities, it works by urine, and is good 

 against the jaundice. 



S uccory . Ch ich o ? eum . 



A common plant in our gardens. It is near 

 a yard high, but of no great beauty. Tiie stalk 

 is round, striated, thick, green and strong. The 

 principal leaves grow from the root ; they are long, 

 narrow, and deeply indented, and are of a bluish 

 green, and hairy ; those on the stalks are smaller, 

 and have no foot-stalks. The flowers are of the 

 shape of those of dandelion, but they are blue : 

 the seed is winged with down. The flowers grow 

 to the sides of the stalks, not at the tops, as in 

 dandelion. The root is long and brown on the 

 surface ; it is full of a milky juice, and white 

 within. 



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