New Principles of Gardening. 
The Root is very tough, of a reafonable fize and length, and 
of greater Virtue than the Roots of the black Eider. 
3. Its Temperature. 
Hot and dry in the third Degree. 
4. Its Medicinal Virtues. 
The Roots of Dwarf Elder boil’d in Wine and drank is 
very good againft the Dropfie, by purging away the watery Hu- 
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The Leaves wafte and confume hard Swellings, being ap- 
plyed as a Pultife, or inaFomentation; one Dram of the Seed 
being drank in Ale, de. is the moft excellent Purger of watery 
Humours of any in the World, and therefore very good againft 
the Dropiie. 
5. Its Cultivation. 
Dwarf Elder ox Danewort is increafed by parting the Roots 
in the Spring, and delights in mellow Land. 
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Of Elicampane. 
1. Its Names. 
J LICAMPANE is called by the Grecians éxivey, in La- 
tin Inula, and Enula, and by fome Enula campana, in 
Tralian Enoa, and Enola, in High Dutch Alantwurtz, in Low 
Dutch Alandt-wortele, in French Enula campane, and in Eng- 
lifh Elicampane, Scabwort, and Horfe-heal : And 'tis reported 
by fome, that this Herb took its Name Helenium, of Helena, 
Wife to Menelaus, who had her Hands full of it, when? arcs 
ftole her away into Phrygia. 
—- >, Ihe Defeription. d 
‘The Leaves of Elicampane arc vety like thofe of the large 
Comfrey, but foft, and covered with a hairy Down, of a yen 
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