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PRODUCTION OF 



Sect. XVIII. i. ^ 



The leaves of thefe plants, as well as the aromatic or balfacoic bud 



of fbme oth 



of myrica, gale; of tacamah 



popul 



balfamifera ; of balm of Gilead, amyris giliadenfis, and many others, 

 fhould be gathered at the time of their greateft: fragrance, as the ef- 



ition, perpetually 



fe 



which 



a 



their odorous exhal 



porat 



fenfe, of fmell informs 



and were apparently for 



the purpofe of defending the plants from the depredation of infedls ii 

 their ftate of infancy. 



5. Other leaves have been ufed for medicinal purpofes, and for th 



iea^ 

 fox 



f dying and tanning, like the barks before mentioned 



the 



D 



of carduus benedi^lu 

 'e, digitalis purpurea, 



, cnicus acarna, as an emetic ; thofe of 

 as an abforbent in anafarca ; thofe of 



bog-bean, menyanthes trifoliata, as a corroborant ; which laft mic^ht 

 probably fupply the place of hops, humulus lupulus, in the brewe- 

 ries of malt-liquors ; and as it 

 ^°ggy grounds, which are not at prefent 



might be plentifully cultivated on 



/ 



fed for other purpofes 



might be a cheaper bitter to the confumer, and fave to the public 



much more fertile foil for the cult 

 vegetables. 



of 



or other valuable 



Th 



of teucrium icorodonia, wood- fa 



are as bitter as 



thofe of menyanthes, bog-bean, and have been ufed with fuccefs, as 

 I have witneffed, in the cure of agues ; and, as it grows on dry barren 

 foils, might poffibly be cultivated to fupply the place of peruvian bark 



in fome difeafes, or to fupply the ufe of hops in the breweries of 

 malt-liquor. 



The leaves of oak-trees, quercus robur, and of afh-trees, fraxinus 



excelfior, and of aid 

 oufly in the autumn 



bet 



after they drop fp 



fa id to ferve the purpofe of tanning animal 



membranes, like the barks of the fame trees fpoken of in Se6t. XVII 

 5; and for the purpofes of dying, the leaves of indigo, indio-ofera 





doria ; and of wood, ifatis tindoria 



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d of weld, refeda 



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