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more properly hartfhorn, on account of 

 the fimilitLide of its leaf to the horns of 

 a flag, hart, or deer. 



This plant has long been found grow- 

 ing in barren places, and hardy grounds, 

 but is now introduced into the garden, 

 and eaten when young and fmall, in all 

 raw fallets. It is, fay the herbalifts, like 

 the common plantane (to which family 

 fome reduce it.) This plant has done 

 great cures to childrens eyes, when drank 

 morning and evening. 



Muftard, the Jtnapi of the antients, was 0/ mt^f- 

 held in very great repute by them, as^^^^- 

 ^Fliny teftifiesj it is exceeding hot and 

 biting, not only in the feed, but the 

 leaf aifo, and more efpecially in the feed. 

 The young muftard plants, like thofe of 

 radifhes, when they are juft peeping out 

 of the bed, are of incomparable effeft 

 to quicken and revive the Ipirits, they 

 ftrengthen the memory, expel heavinefs, 

 prevent the vertiginous palfy, and are a 

 laudable cephalick. Befides, it's an ap- 

 proved antifcorbutick and concodion, 

 cuts and diffipates flegmatick humours. 

 In fhort, it's the noble embammay and 

 fo necelTary an ingredient in all cold raw 

 Jfalleting, that it is very rarely, if at all, 



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