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and excellent purge ; it works also by urine. It is 

 good in the jaundice. The pulp is useful also to cool 

 the mouth, and quench thirst in fevers. It is not 

 much used singly as a purge. 



Tamarisk. Tamariscus. 



A little tree, frequent wild in France, and kept 

 in our gardens : it grows, however, much larger in 

 its native climate thou here. The bark is brown on 

 the trunk, and paler on the branches, and the young 

 shoots are red and very slender. The leaves are 

 very beautiful ; they are of a fine bright green, 

 delicately divided into small parts, and regular. 

 The flowers are very small and red ; but they stand 

 in spikes, and very close together ; and as four or five 

 of these spikes also often stand together, they are very 

 conspicuous ; the seeds are small, and lodged in a 

 downy substance. 



The bark is used dried, and the lops of the 

 branches fresh ; both have the same virtue ; the 

 one is best in decoction, the other in a light in- 

 fusion, made in the manner of tea. Either is good 

 to open obstructions. They promote the menses, 

 are vjhki in the jaundice, and it is said against the 

 jickets. 



Tansy. Tanccvtum. 



A common plant in our gardens. It is a 

 yard high : the stalks are round, firm, upright, 

 and of a pale green ; the leaves are large, oblong, 

 broad, and very beautifully formed ; they are each 

 composed of several pairs of smaller, set on each 

 side of a common rib, with an odd leaf at the end. 

 These are narrow, long, pointed, and serrated at 

 the edges. The ilowers stand in large cluster-: at 



