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Bioifture to boil them in, without ex- 

 prcffion : the leaves, when tender, are 

 mix'd with faileting, but the chief ufe 

 of this is in pottage ^ as is the blite^ 

 blitum^ I^AyiTovj quod eft iners & infipiduWy 

 from its innocence in all its ufes. 



To the fame purpofes alfo might hzOfmarum, 

 brought the marum fyr, vulg, the herb 

 maftick 5 but of a terrible intoxicating 

 madning quality, whofe ufes I fliall leave 

 to all curious and careful cooks, and 

 conclude this clafs of plants with an ac» 

 count of 



Sage, the falvia of the antients [quodof fage. 

 ad multa prafertim ad facunditatem fa- 

 lutaris Jit) fay fome ingenious botanifts, 

 of fo great efficacy in life that Mr. Eve- 

 lyn, in Acetaria^ p.6\. tells us, the 

 affiduous ufe of it is faid to render men 

 immortal. Its properties are hot and 

 dry, and retain all that is noble in o- 

 ther hot plants, more efpecially for the 

 head, memory, eyes, and all paralytica! 

 cafes. 



Our Herbals have given the figure and 

 defcription of eight kinds of this won- 

 derfully ufeful plant, viz, the falvia a- 

 greftis five fcorodonia, or wood fage, 

 Ger, f, 66z. Tark, /. 11 1. falvia ma- 



