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Coafts,the other common to both theEaJl and Weft-hdies^ 
$9. This is a Woolly headed Xanthium^ orlejfer Bur* 
dock ; it's defcribed in the tenth Volume of the Hortus 
Malaharkm, pag, 117. where, it's faid, they ufe the 
Root bruifed m Whey, as a Remedy againft the Piles , 
and the Povvder of it Cures the Belly-ach, I have alfo 
received it from Cape Coafl in Guinea, where the Natives 
call it tetrephoe, and boil it in Broth for the Flux. 
ioo. This laft is alfo of the fame kind, but a Native 
of Portugal ; the firft Knowledge we had of it was from 
the PhyJtck'Garden at Leyden, from whence it was brought 
jBe by my worthy Friend Dr. Lecaan, 
Thus you fee this Century is compofed of feverai/^///- 
trials 2Lnd Plants wholly new, with the Figures of many 
of them, there are others which are very rare, and pro- 
cured from remote Parts, as JJta, America and Africa, 
from which laft part of the World, you have feme gi- 
ven you with their Native Names, and what ufe the In- 
habitants relate of them. Moreover, to each Animal^ 
Plant, &c. already defcribed, I have made a Recital 
and Connexion of M the Ce/eirated Authors, as have 
yet come to my hands; fo that at one view you have 
the (everal Symnimus Ifams oi all the precedent Wri- 
ttm^i Natural Hiftory. I have like wife quoted the 
different Editions of fuch as are Remarkable 5 and alfo, 
for the greater eaft of the Reader, have referred him to 
the very Pages in which they are treated of. 
To enumerate the many advantages which will ac- 
crue from thus Synonimifmg of Authors, and the Ex- 
amples of thofe who have already begun it, will be too 
tedious here to relate I fhali only therefore briefly men- 
tion my kind Affiftants to this Work, and then (Don- 
elude. 
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