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I boyled Gramen fpicafecaiina^ and the Deco£lion was of a 
fvveei., mucUaginoas and ity pLic Tafte. 
The Roots ot Grafs have fomethhig of Acrimony and Aflriflion, 
but the Deco8:ion taites fmooth and fv^eetilh. The green Leaves 
of Grais are fweetand ftypda The Decoction of the Water was 
of a pale colour. 
The Seeds of Grafs are more diuretick and binding, I made a 
Decoftion of' them, which reiembled Water-gruel. 
Paronychia fohis riitaceis muft be referred to the Graffes, be- 
caufe of its fweetnefs. 
2. Quere w^herher Kapunculm bd not of the Sweet Clafs, 
becaufe the whole Plant is Sweet and Milky, and for that both are 
given to Nurfes to increafe Milk. The Roots of the rampions 
arefomething ftyptic and cooling, and proper againft Inflamations. 
S cor z oner a and Tragopogon are referrable to the GrafTes, becaufe 
of their geniculate- Stalks, their Graffy Leaves, fw^eet Taftes and 
Milky Juice, the Deco£iion ^was fmooth and of a pale colour. 
Trachekum is alfo Sweet, Milky, Subacrid, and Bitterifh, of the 
fame clafs. 
The fweet mucilaginous and crude Lychnk^ the decoflion of 
Affine^ is fweetifh and mucilaginous, the colour pale like Small 
Beer. I could obferve no aftringency in Al/ine, I boyled in a 
pint of Water, it hath* a cooling and moy fining quality like com- 
mon Lychnis, D'wfcorides fays, Chickweed being bruifed has the 
fmell of a Cucumber. 
All the common Lychnis's are bitter fweets,and them I fliall re- 
fer to the clafs of Bitters, tho their joynted Stalks and Sweetnefs 
may juftly place them here, yet their chief Phyfical Virtue is from 
thejr Bitternefs. 
4. The Sweet Bitterifh Styptic, and Subacrid Fern. 
I boyled of Fern^Roots in tfej of Water to half, the Tafte was 
very Styptic and Bitterifh, the Colour Citron. 
The Mucilage and Stypticitj make fern an excellent Vulnerary, 
and Styptic in all Fluxes ; the young Buds rubbed in the Fingers 
fwell fomething like a Kernel, or the Laurel fmell. 
Bryopteris is defcribed Aftringent and Sweet, Acid and Bitterifli. 
Hemionith has both Aftringency and Bitternefs. 
Adumthum album xfj nigrum are Sweet and Styptic,and fince Ex- 
perience (hews thefe to be good Peftorals, 'the other Ferns have 
- the fame Peftoral Vertue, as Vulneraries. 
Jicrniaria is defcribed as a Styptic. 
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