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of retaining what the vicinity of the ftronger and 
thicker Texture , which the Calyces are compofed of, and 
can without prejudice eafily communicate to them. 
Hook upon the generality of this Tribe, to be a de- 
gree Warmer then the laft, and their Heat confequently 
to approach nearer to the Aromau or Spices»then the Car- 
whativeSf 2ind the Effeds therefore to be more pecu- 
liarly appropriated to fuch Nervous Difeafes, as are 
more intenfe,andthe Vmlellifer£ cannot quickly reach, 
Viz Apolexiesj Eftlepfm^ Palfies^ &c. in which cafes 
our* Lavender, Rofemary^ Sage^ St£chaSyZn6 (ome others, 
are Simples which all our antient Phyfitians (in thefe 
ftubborn Difeafes) have very much applauded. Yet at 
the fame time we muft not forget the many Celebrated 
Effects that are owing to fome others of this Family, as 
Mint^ Barvm^ Pennyroyal^ Savory^ Time^ Hyjfop^ Marje* 
ronty Bafill^ Origanum^ Dittanny of Creet^ Marum or 
common Maftick-tmey with Marum Syriacum and fome 
other, no lefs Noble Herbs of this Family, that I have 
lately received both from the Eafi and Weft-Indies^ 
w^hich I have alfo Experienced in fome Cafes with very 
good fucceft. 
3. We proceed next to thofe herbs which have a Tetra- 
petalofe Regular Flower^ (by Regular I mean,ftich as have 
Four equal petala in each Flower), thefe Mr. Ray 
Treats of in his Sixteenth Book of his Hiftory of Plants^ 
and in his Synopfis Stirpium Brittannicarum pag. 108. 
and in \\\% Second Edition, p. 164. under the Title of 
Herh£ Flore Tetrapetalo uniform and by Mr. Dale in 
his Pharmocalogia, under the fame Charafl:er^jg. 191. 
thefe in Relation to their Seed-Veffels, are fub-divided 
under two Heads, Fiz. SiJiquofe vel Capfulat£, being 
fuch as have their Seeds contained in k)ng or ihort re* 
ceptacles as Podds or Capfules. 
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