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firft found out the efficacy of it againfl: 

 poifon, as antient authors affirm, or as 

 * Mr. Raj fets down, that it fprang from 

 the tears of that remarkable lady, and 

 for that rcafon had in great efteem in 

 the ifland fo calFd. 



Gerard and Varkinfon mention hMt its name^ 

 one kind, in which they are both agreed 

 as to its name, it being the enula cam- 

 fana five Helenium of them both. Vid. 

 Ger. TarL p. 654. Elecampane 



is propagated by the feparation or part- 

 ing the roots. 



Rhubarb, the Rhubarbum of the her- of rhu' 

 barifts, is propagated in the fame man- ^"^^^^ 

 ner as the aforegoing. Its derivation 

 does not appear by any books I have 

 feen 5 neither have I leifure at this time 

 to enquire into it; there is but one fort 

 in our Engliflf Herbals, but the kind that 

 is tranfported from beyond fea is by our 

 apothecaries and druggifts accounted the 

 beft. 



Lavender, lavendula-, quia baheis (d' Of laven- 

 Idvacris expetatur^ as our writers on bo- . 



* Elecampane, Helenium, 'EAma? quod a lachrymis 

 Helenae natum dicatur & ideo in Helena inliila laudatiffi- 

 mum effc perhibetur, 



tany 



