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much defired difhcs 5 perhaps there might 

 be a method of doing it by the pro- 

 curing of the earth where they grow, 

 which certainly contains fome feminalia 

 or fragments of thofe tuberous roots 

 which when tranfplanted out might grow 

 with us, as many other things do, and 

 particularly mufhroom.s. Mr. Ray fays 

 of them, that the roots are of an un- 

 equal globular figure 5 that they grow in 

 fandy ground, and under trees, and that 

 even in our country 5 but he docs not 

 mention where. They are fometimes 

 as big as a melon, being covered with 

 a black skin, rough and full of clefts 

 or furrows y the internal fubftance is of 

 a milky colour, of a grateful taftc, and 

 that the place of their growing is dif- 

 covered by certain chafms or clefts, that 

 are difcovered in the fuperficies of the 

 earth. But I leave this account to fome 

 farther trials, which I intend, God wil- 

 ling, to make. 



In the mean time, beftdes the ufes of 

 this root in cookery, I can't but obferve 

 from Cardan-, in his book T^e varietate 

 reruniy cap. 28. that when it is boil'd 

 and ufed plaifterwifc, in all quinzies, 

 and forenefs of the throat, that it has 



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