The Leaves of Liquorifh feel gurnmofe, the Roots are fweet 
and fubacerbe. 
Tamarinds are of a;i acid, acrid and fweet mixllaginous Tafte.^ 
the Stones have the figure or" Lupins, the Leaves of T:rniAnds ^ 
are ot an acid agreeable Taft^ i, and they muft be referred t3 c!:e 
Services and Berberries, tho .by the Cods and Seeds I erronecdily 
have cLUs'd thenn with CaiTia or Lzifins, 
Fi-materry isfubacrid. bitteriSij mucilaginous, and legiimen^ tho 
the Flowers be not. 
Radix Cava has bitter fv\.^eet Roots like Beans, and a mealy fuk- 
acrid Tafte the. Leaves have a crude fmell iike Fumiterry, and of 
the fkiiie tirtue. - ^ 
The Skni of thevBean is ftyptic, but the flefliy part bitteriili le- 
gum.inous^. 
Coffee is bitterifh and of the Bean kind,in which t here is a Volatile 
Salt^ which ralfes the Spirits, and produces Urine and the Menfes. 
Orobus is of an ingratefiil bitteriih Talte^ all the bl^'ter Legu- 
mens open obftru£lions and promote Urine, as Kidney Beans, ^c, 
I boy led Broom |j in Water fcj to tb|3^ the Tafte was moaerateiy 
bitter, fweet and ftyptic, not naufeous, and without any heat. ■ 
Iboyledof Gemfla Spinofd rootes in Ifej of Water to |bp, 
the Colour was like Smiali Beer, the Tafte mucilaginous, ftyptic; 
without any great bitteriflrnefs or acrimony'^ the Root taftes bit- 
terifh, mucilaginous, ftyptic^ it may "be proper for the Stone by 
thole Taftes, and for Fluxes. 
The Leaves of Brufcus have the fmell of Broom when brui fed , 
and its birterifhnefs and' ftypticity and fweetnefs, and are fabacrid ; 
and by this Tafte a Legumen. 
Cz-fi/i? defcribes Sena as if it had VifcUm ^uhl^hy which it gripes 
and by the Tafte he dlfcovered the bitteriflmefs and aftriftion. 
Matibiol/^s ohiQVJQ'd °us vifcous Taite and bitteriflinei% -with, a vi- 
rofe naufeous odor, VikQ Cy/ioglojjl' or Pun ica. The iil'^qua', a? 
well as- the fvveet tafte and flowers, prove it a legumen. 
Fo/ygaia boy led with the Blue Flowers gave a Colour Blue like 
Violets, and the Taft"e was very mucihiginous, the Plant is aro- 
' mafic, acrid. ^ ^ 
fj of Viohitri Color* boy led inlbj of Water- to half, made aDe- 
co£lion of a Greenifii Colour, like^Cowlfp Wine, and it rafted 
gratefully and mucilaginous ^ the Roots' or Fofyga/a are acrid and 
aromatic it purges Bile. 
The Decoftion of the Root of Fenclymenum is ftyptic and 
bitter,, and of fweet k^^umi nous Tafte. Pur- 
