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batic, abounding with volatile parts, good for the scurvy, 

 and ifi aa iDcredient of the antiscorbutic juices and diet 

 drinks for that distemper. It is likewise detersive and 

 eleansing, and useful in many inward obstructions. 



PINE-TREK— CPtnui Si/lvettris.) 



DMcnp» — On the continent it grows to a great height, 

 but with us not so tall It is found in parks and inclo- 

 suree. The leaves are short and slender, and the conee 

 are sharp-pointed, including small kernels. 



Place, — It ows its existence in this country to the curi- 

 ous, who plant it for its beauty and ornament. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is a tree of Mara. From it 

 common turpentine, which is thick, whitish, and opaque, 

 is obtained. It has a strong smell, and is used by farriers 

 from this the distilled oil, sometimes called the spirit of 

 turpentine, is extracted ; what is left at the bottom of the 

 still \& the common rosin, which, if taken out before it is 

 drawn too high, and then washed in water, is called white, 

 or yellow rosm. The black is more evaporated, and not 

 washed at all, they are the same in nature, being used in 

 ointments aod plasters. The kernels are excellent resto- 

 ratives in consumptions, and after long illness. The best 

 way of giving them is in an emulsion beat up with barley- 

 water, which is also very good for heat of urine, and other 

 disorders of the urinary passages. 



PLANTAIN.— (P/ofUo^o Major.) 



Descrip. — The root is thick at the head, having whitish 

 fibres grt)wiDg from it. The leaves are broad, large, and 

 oval, waved at the edges, with seven large nerves run nins 

 through the whole length of them, and even the broad 

 hollow footstalks into the root The flowers grow in long 

 spikes, above half the length of the footstalks, small and 

 staminous, cut into four parts, which are succeeded by two 

 small, oblong, shining brown seeds, hollow on the one 

 side, growing in little roundish capsular, which open hori- 

 zontally when the seed is ripe. 



Place. — It is every where by the way-side. 



Time. — It flowers in May. The whole plant is used. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This is under Venus, and it 

 enres the head by its antipathy to Mars, and the privities 

 t>7 its sympathy to Venus ; neither is there a martial dij»- 

 mat but it care«. The juice, clari&sd and drank for days 



