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With drugs, convey 'd In drink or meat, 



All feats of witches counterfeit j 



Kill pigs and geefe with powder'd glafs. 



And make it for inchantment pafs ; 



With Coiu-itch meazle like a leper. 



And choak with fumes of G//OTt'_y-pepper : 



Make lechers, and their punks with Dewtry, 



Commit phantaflical advowtry; 



Bewitch hermetic-men to run 



Stark flaring mad with Manicon. 



Ceylon and India have great varieties of HedyfaTum. The Hedtsarum. 

 H. PulcbeUunif Burm. Zeyl. tab. 52, is very remarkable for its 

 long fpikes of circular pods. 



TinBoria^ Rumph. Amboin. v. tab. 80, is common in all parts Indicofera, 

 of India in a cultivated ftate : but its native country is Guzeraty 

 where it grows wild ; but its name is derived from Indicus, a pa- 

 tronimic taken from the country it was originally brought from. 

 It is alfo found wild in Madagafcar. The rich blue dye is pro- 

 cured from it in all parts of Hindoojlan, and ufed in the various 

 manufactures. Diofcorides, lib. v. c. 68, fpeaks of two kinds, 

 one extracfted from what he calls certain Indian reeds. Pli?iy 

 errs when he fays it is from the flime which adheres to thofe ■ 

 plants. Diofcorides mentions it medicinally : Plijiy as a paint. 



The fpecies of Citrus are two, C. Aurantium Sinenfe, or Citrws. 

 China orange, probably originally imported from that country, 

 and the C. Decumanus, Rumph. A7nboin. ii. tab. 64, the Shaddock ^ 

 or Piwipelmofe of the Wejl Indies^ which is only cultivated in 



H h 2 Ceylon, 



