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it is disassemble ; but its virtues are the same 

 with those of lettuce, ouly greater. There are 

 soiye kinds of hawkweed also, which have a bitter 

 milky juice, altogether like that of this lettuce ; 

 a iui they, also, have this opiate quality. I have 

 tried many of them, but as they are none of them, 

 equal to the great wild lettuce in this respect,- it 

 would have been idle to have spent many words 

 about them. 



This general observation may be carried a great 

 tlcal farther ; but it were the business of a volume, 

 not of a short appendix, to explain it at large. In 

 general, the seeds of umbelliferous plants, that is, 

 those which have little {lowers in rounded clusters, 

 c;ich succeeded by two seeds, are good against 

 colics ; those of caraway, anise, cummin, corian- 

 der, and all of that kind, arc 'produced by plants 

 of this figure. In the same manner, the verticil- 

 late plants, as they are called, that is, those which 

 have the flowers surrounding the strdks, as in mint 

 and thyme, are of a warm nature ; and however 

 they differ in degree and circumstance, they have 

 the same general virtues. Farther, such plants 

 as are insipid to the taste and smell, have generally 

 little virtues; and, on the contra rv, those which 

 have the most fragrant smell, and sharpest taste, have 

 the greatest virtues, of whatever kind. 



Iu general also, those plants which have a strong 

 but an agreeable taste, are most worthy to be 

 examined with respect to their virtues ; for they 

 are generally the most valuable ; and on the con- 

 trary, when a very strong taste is also a very dis- 

 agreeable one ; or, in the same manner, when \'y 

 strong smell of a plant has also something heavv. 

 disagreeable, and overpowering in it, there i- 

 mischief iu the herb, rather than any useful quality. 

 The poisonous plant- of this country are Very few; 



