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ounce and half to a man, by a drachm at a dofej, 

 three or four times a day, has, in feveral in-^ 

 fiances, been found to cure the dropfy, but ^n 

 more has fail'd. 



iP O L Y G Y N i A. 



ALISMA. Gen. PL 460. 

 CaL 3-phyllus. Petala 7- Sem, plura. 

 plmtago ^7- ALlSMA foliis ovatis acutis, Vrudibus obtufe tfi- 

 ^ ' * gonis. 6^. pi. 486. (Ger. Em, 417./ i.) 

 Great Water Plantain, Anglis. 

 On the banks of lakes frequent^ as at DMijivt- 



Loch, &-C. n, Vll. Dr. Parfois. 

 The leaves are large, fmooth, oval and pointed : 

 the ftalk ere^l and naked : the flowers whiter, 

 and fmall in proportion to the plant, growing in 

 a large open panicle : the branches verticillate. 



ranuncixloi- 

 des 2. 



A. foliis lineari-lanceolatis, frudibus globofo-fquar- 

 rofis. Sp. p/i 487; {Oed. Dan, /. 122. opt. Ger, 



Em. A^l'f' 3. P^t' ^^^^' i' AZ'f' ^0 

 Lefler Water Plantain. 

 In ditches and bogs^ but not common. 1 obierV*d 



it in ditches and by the fides of Jochs in the 



iHandof Ijla. ^. VII. 



O 



glassis 



