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with the ftalks. For they put them into 

 pots with or without water, amongft otheif 

 fine flowers which they had gathered both 

 in the gardens and in the fields, and placed 

 them as an ornament in the rooms. The 

 Englijh ladies in general are much inclined 

 to have fine flowers all the fiimmer long, 

 in or upon the chimneys, fometimes upon a 

 table, or before the windows, either on ac- 

 count of their fine appearance, or for the fake 

 of their fweet fcent. The Gnaphalium2hovt^ 

 mentioned, was one of thofe, which they 

 kept in their rooms during the winter, be- 

 caufe its flowers never altered from what 

 they were when they flood in the ground. 

 Mr. Bartram told me another ufe of this 

 plant. A decodion of the flowers and 

 ftalks is ufed to bathe any pained or bruifed 

 part, or it is rubbed with the plant itfelf 

 tied up in a bag. 



Instead of flax feveral people made ufe 

 of a kind of Dogs bane^ or Linnceuss Apo-^ 

 cynum cannabinum. The people prepared 

 the ftalks of this plant, in the fame manner 

 as we prepare thofe of hemp or flax* It 

 was fpun and feveral kinds of ftufts were 

 woven from it. The favages are faid to 

 have had the art of making bags, fiftiing- 

 ncts, and the like, for many centuries to^ 

 gether, before the arrival of the Europeans^ 



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