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IJ>eciiick for tke jaundice. The feed is commended for coughs^ 
Ihortnefs of breath, and obftrudions of the lungs. 
Xanthium, the Lefler Burdock. It hath a flof- 
culous flower, conflfling of many florets, which 
are barren out of which arifes the chives, fup- 
porting the fummits, for the mofl: part bifid. 
The fruit is oblong ; for the mofl: part prickley, 
divided into two cells, and full of oblong feeds. 
. The ftalk is about a foot high, a little downy, 
and full of black fpecks. The leaves grow on 
long pedicles ; they are roundifh, and waved 
about the edges. We have but one fpecies of 
this plant, viz. 
* Xanthium feu Lappa minor R. 140, P. 1222. 
Lappa minor Xanthium Diofcoridis^ C. 198. Bardana 
minor., G. 664. The LeflTer Burdock. At S lanes in 
Middlefex. Mr Lawfon. In the road from Portfinouth 
to London., about three miles from Portfmoutb, 
The feed, powder’d, and given in white wine, is good to pro* 
voke urine, and to help the fits of die ftone. 
2 . Such as have their flowers and feeds contiguous^ 
and whofe feeds are of a triangular figure. 
‘ Lapathum, Dock. The empalement confifls of 
fix leaves ; the largefl: are red, and the three lefs 
of a green colour. In the middle of the empale- 
ment are placed fix chives. The three outer fniall 
leaves of the empalement fall away when ripe, 
and the three inner large leaves join together, and 
form a triangular covering ; in the middle of 
which are contain’d fliining three corner’d feeds. 
The fpecies are : 
I. Lapathum maximum aquaticum five Hydrolapa- 
ihum, R. 140. Hydrol. magnum, G. 312. mc^us^ 
P. 1225. Lapathum aquaticum folio cubit ali, C. 
1 16. Great Water-dock. In deep ditches. 
* 2. Lapathum vulgar e folio obtufo, R, 141. fylv^ 
