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4. The medicinal Virtues. 
The Root of ‘Dragon cleanfes the Entrails, and attenuates 
thick and tough Humours. 
The Leaves are good for Ulcers and green Wounds, being 
apply’d green, for when they are dry, they have very little 
Virtue to heal, and are of a more fharp or biting ey than 
is neceflary for green Wounds. 
Pliny affirms, that Serpents will not come near any one 
that hath Dragons about him. ~The diftill'd Water of Dragons 
is very good againft the Peftilence, or any: peftilential Fever or 
Poifon, being drank warm with the beft-Treacle‘or Mithridate. 
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Of Dwarf Elder. 
1. Its Names. 
WaRFE ELDER is commonly called Disndavorts audi in 
Greek xapasenry, that is, Humilis Sambucus, or low 
Elder, in Latin Ebulus and Ebulum, in Hi igh Dutch Attich, 
in Low Dutch Hadich, in Italian Ebulo, in Spanifh Yezgos, 
in French Hiebles, and in Englifo Wallwort, Danewort and 
| Dwarf Elder. 
2. The Defcriptian. 
Walltwort or Dwarf Elder is very like the common Elder 
in its Leaves, {pokie Tufts of Bloom, and Fruit; but hath not 
woody Stalks, as the common E/der hath. 
It produces green Stalks which die in the Winter, | aud: are 
jointed as the young Shoots of Hider. The Leaves grow in 
Couples, and confift of many fmall Parts or lefler indented 
Leaves, which are placed upon a thick rib’d Stalk, and their 
Flowers are produced at the top of the Stalks in white Tufts, 
which are fucceeded by Blackberries, very like unto thofe of — 
the common black Eider, wherein are contain’d {mall Ja86 | 
Seeds. 
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