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BviyrmumY.oa'i has the fmell of Myrrh, with a Bitter Acrid 
•I uiie, aiici It helps the Urine and the Menies like it. 
The colour ,ot the Specifick Juice is varieus » ^hyjjelinum and 
j^SeJeli praterJe \vd.VQ a Milk : The Ferula s are Milky, or have a 
Saiiron colour : Their Julcqs make Sagapenum and Galbanum, 
.The Juice of the Root of Peucedanum is reddifli, and is called 
Opoponax odorc piceo, vinfo. 
The Root ot Syphoniylium has aSafFron coloured JuicejOfafceti ' 
and bitterifli Tafte. 
'Tis oblerved tiiat foipe Seeds grow -bitter by the foult of tlu 
foyl in which they grow. All of this clafs have a Volatile Oyl 
and Acrid Salt, by which they are diuretic, carnninative, and 
peftorai. alfo by their fweetnefs, Emmenagogue, if loetid. 
I boyledParfley Roots in ifej of Water, to half, the Tafte was 
Sweet, , and Acrid^ Aromatic, the Colour pale. 
The Roots of M.eum are Acrid, and fmell ftrong ^ too much of 
it ofieiids the Head. , 
Libanctis has the fmell and tafte of the Seed of Angelica. 
Slum 01 Apium palujlre foL Ohlongk has an odor of Bitumen on " 
all the Plant. 
> ThyiIeiiriUm is Bitter, Ingrate and Acrid. 
TheDecoftion of Angelica Roots are bitterifli, Aromatic, Acrid, 
, aHd . of a y ello wifh Colo ur. 
Imperatoria Roots decoded fmelled like Angelica, and tafted 
very Bitter and Acrid ^ of a green Colour. 
6. The Sweet, Acrid, Terebinthinate and Styptic. 
Calamm^ ,Nardm_^ Cyperus^ agree in their Diuretic, Carmina- 
tive and Emmenagogue Virtue, and their Stypticity, tfa 
Cdhmus refembles a Reed ^ it is an Acorus^ .the Taffe refem- 
bks the Turpentine Plants, as well as its Cones. 
Jmcus odor at us is a.Rufli, with the fmell of a Rofe^ when rub- 
bed of a Burning, Acrid, Aromatic and Bitterifli Tatte, 
^€}^^^'>r^f is of a pleafant Odor, like Li^w. -dA>if whilft^it flow- 
ers, and of an Acrid, Aromatic, Bitterifh, Styptic Tafte. 
Nardils refembles the flavor of Cyperus -^'tis Bitterifh, Aftringent, 
. Acrid and Aromatic.' 
The Roots of Cyperus are ufed {ox^Nardus, 
•There is ipme f oetor in Valerian^ Afurum^ Serpent aria^ whofe 
'Roots have a little Sweetnefs, with a Terebinthinate Bitter ^crid,^ 
. ind all of them refemble Spikenard Moris gr avitate^ and have the 
fame Diuretic, Carminative, Emmenagogue Vertue, andj are 
prpper.^fbr|Ma.Ugnant Fevers «5 and a little Stypti^^ ' "The 
