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teeth ; and hence-arofe the practice of anodyne 
necklaces, The opinion, however flightly founded, 
is as old as Galen: he names a gitl who was kept 
free from the epilepfy eight months by wearing 
a piony root about her neck, and immediately 
feized with the difeafe on droping it. 
Gao ke 
Nijasa Uris 
There are other grave authors who confirm the 
fame account: but whatever may be its virtue 
in this manner of application, this I know from 
experience, that taken inwardly it is a very great 
and excellent medicine, and deferves to be brought 
more into ufe. 
XVL 
INDIAN MALLOW, 
ABUL TE O Ns 
rPHE owe is compofed of five petals: the feeds are contained in capfules, a great number of 
which follow every flower. 
The leaves are undivided. 
Linnzus places this among his monadelpbia decandria, and joins it with fome others not allied to it, 
under the name of fda: others have joined it with the mallows, which is a much greater error; thofe 
plants belonging to a former clafs, as having their feeds naked, whereas the abutilon has them 
enclofed in capfules, as the reft of this clafs. 
1. Yellow Indian Mallow. 
Abutilon flore flavo. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many ftrong fibres. 
The Jeaves that rife from it ftand on long foot- 
ftalks : they are large, and of a heart-fafhioned 
fhape, indented at the ftalk, and pointed at the 
end. They are of a whitith colour, foft to the 
touch, and a little notched at the edges. 
The ftalk is robuft, firm, upright, branched, 
and three foot high: it is whitifh and woody: 
The outer rind eafily flips off, and there is a 
woody fubftance within. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it: they have 
flender footftalks, and aré of the fame form with 
thofe from the root, and of the fame foftnefs. 
The flowers are moderately large, and of a 
beautiful ftrong yellow, ftriated, and full of 
threads, with their buttons in the centre, 
The capfules which follow each flower are nu- 
merous, ten, twelve, or more. They are con- 
‘nected at their tops; fo that they form a large 
head. : 
It is a native of the Eaft, and of fome parts 
of Europe. It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Wthea Theophrafti flore luteo. 
Others, Abutilon. 
2. White Indian Mallow. 
Abutilon album. 
The root is a fmall, long body, producing a 
great number of thick and large fibres. 
The fitft leaves are large, oblong, fharp point- 
ed, and ftand on flender footftalks: they are of 
a pale green, and fomewhat hairy, but have not 
the foftnefs of the others. 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, hairy, and 
very little branched: the leaves hang irregularly 
upon it, drooping down. ‘They are of the fame 
form with thofe from the root, but fina ler, 
The flowers ftand on long footftalks, and are 
white, or nearly fo, with a deep yellownefs in the 
centre, ' 
The feed-veffels are numerous, and form a 
large head. : 
It is frequent in Afia, and flowers in June. 
J. Bauhine calls it Abutilon Indicum. 
The virtues of thefe plants are not known ih 
our part of the worlely but in the Eaft they are 
famous in the gravel, and fuppreffions of urine. 
They are of the mallow kind, as the tafting of 
their roots will fhew any one accuftomed to thefe 
refearches ; but they are not fo mucilaginous as 
our European fpecies, fo that they have probably 
lefs virtue. 
They are alfo commended in fevers, but we 
know not if with reafon. 
Gib No Ui aseobevait 
SWEETBEARD. 
BAR BA ‘CAPR A: 
HE flower is {fmall, and confifts of five petals. It ftands in a {mall cup divided into five feg- 
T ments, and is followed by three fmall, feparate capfules. The flowers ftand in long tufts, 
and the leaves are winged. 
There are male and female plants in this genus, but they differ only in this, that on the male 
plants the flowers have only threads, and in the female only the rudiments of the capfules in the 
centre. 
‘ Linneug, in his Genera Plantarum, places this among the diecia polyandria ; for this reafon making 
it a difting genus, under the name of aruncus 3 but in his Species Plantarum itis removed from that 
clafs. It there ftands among the icofandria pentagynia, and is made a fpecies of fpiraa. 
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