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pointed at the euda. The flowers stand together loosely. 

 The root« are Boiall, and run creeping under ground. 



Place, — It is found on stone and mud walls, upon th« 

 tUe^ of houses, among rubbish, and in gravelly parts. 



T'im*.— It dowers in June and July, and the leaves are 

 green all the winter. 



Oovemment and Virtues, — It is under the dominion of 

 the Moon, cold in quality, and somewhat binding, very 

 good to stay defluxions, especially such as fall on the eyes. 

 It stops bleeding, both inwardly and outwardly, helps can- 

 kers, and fretting sores and ulcer; it prevents diseases that 

 arise from choleric humours, expels poison, resists pesti- 

 lential fevers, and is good for tertian agues; the decoction 

 answers the same purposes. It is a harmless herb, bruis- 

 ed and applied to the place, it helps king's-evil, and other 

 knots or kernels in the flesh: as also the piles, but it should 

 be used with caution. The juice taken inwardly excites 

 vomiting. In scorbutic cases, and quartan agues, it is a 

 most excellent medicine, under proper management. 



STORAX TREK-^Liquidambar Styracifiua.) 



Detcrx'p. — This tree grows like the Quince tree both in 

 size and form ; the leaves are long and round, white un- 

 derneath and stiff. The flowern stand both at the joints 

 with leaves, and at the ends of the branches, and consist 

 of 6ve or six white ones, with some threads in the middle, 

 after which come berries set in the cups that were flowers 

 l)«fore, pointed at the ends, and hoary all over, each on a 

 long footstalk, containing within them certain kernels in 

 small shells, and yields a clear fragrant gum of the colour of 

 brci^n honey. Another kind has three or 6ve broad leaves, 

 which come forth out of knots from a round root, covered 

 with a crested, or jointed luirk, standing on small blackish 

 long ttalUs, divided into three or five parts, full of veins, 

 dented about the edges, and pointed at the ends. A third 

 sort is called the lied Storax. 



/*/ac«.— The first grows in France, and Italy, Candy, 

 Greece, and Turkey, where it yields no gum ; but in Sy- 

 ria, Cilicia, Paniphylia,Cyprus,and those hotter countries, 

 it thrives considerably. 



Time- It flowers in spring, yields fruit in September. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This is a S<:)lar plant, and only 

 the gum is used. It is hot in the second dei^ree, and dry 

 in the first It heals, mollifies, and digests, rvnd is good 



