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accounted good to cleanfe the blood, loofen the belly, and pro* 
voice urine. 
Cannabis, Hemp. Its leaves are digitated, and 
grow by pairs *, the bark is llrong and foft ; the 
empalement is expanded, and divided into five 
fegments, having five chives in the male-plants. 
The fruit is a hard roundifii fhell, containing one 
round feed. 
* Cannabis fativa^ R.138, C. 320. 1. feu mas ^ 
2. feu feemina^ G. E. 708. fativa mas Q foemina^ 
P. 597. Hemp, the male and female, or, winter and 
fiimmer hemp. ■ 
The feed of Hemp, boil’d in milk till it cracks, is accounted 
good for old coughs, and a fpecifick to cure the jaundice. 
Mercurialis, Mercury. The leaves are crena- ' 
ted, and grow by pairs *, the empalement confifls 
of one leaf, which expands, and is cut into three 
fegments : Thefe are male and female in different 
plants. The flowers of the male grow in long 
ipikes, and confifi: of many chives and fum- 
mits, which are loaded with farina *, the ovary 
of the female-plant becomes a tefticulated fruit, 
having a Angle round feed in each cell. The 
Ipecies are : 
1. Mercurialis perennis repens Cynocramhe diblai 
Cynocramhe mas feemina^ R. 138, G. E. 333. 
Mercur. fylvejlris Cynocramhe dibla ^vulgaris mas & 
foemina^ P.295. Mercurialis montanatefticulata^ 
Mercur. mont ana fpic at 122, Dogs-mercury. In 
woods, and by hedges. It flowers early in the fpring. 
2. Mercurialis annua glabra vulgaris. Mercuri- 
alis mas i 3 feemina^ R. 139. vulgaris mas feemi- 
na.^ P. 295. Merc, mas ^ Merc, feemina^ G. 332. 
Mercurialis tefticulata feu mas Diofeoridis Pliniij 
Merc, fpicata feu feemina eorundem^ C. 121. 
French-mercury, the male and female. On the Sea- 
beach, v near Ry^ in the ifle of Wight. In feveral 
