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Foreign Vegetables. 
T H E foreign Vegetables of which we fhall 
treat, not being brought over to us en- 
tire, but only fuch Parts of them as are 
ufed in Medicines ; we fhall therefore, with Regard 
to thofe Parts, diflribute them into diflinct Gaffes, 
or Chapters : Whereof the firflfhall include Roots ; 
thefecond. Barks; the third. Woods ; the fourth. 
Marine Plants ; the fifth, Stalks, Leaves and Flow^ 
ers ; the fixth, Fruits and Seeds ; the feventh, li- 
quid and concreted Juices ; the eighth, Juices ex- 
tracted from Plants by Art ; and the ninth, fungous 
productions, or Subfiances growing upon Plants. 
We fhall now fpeak of thefe in Order. 
CHAP. L 
Of Roots. 
Artic. I. Of Acorus. 
ACORUS verus , officinis f also Calamus aromaticus , 
Gerard. Diofc. et Gal. Acorus verus feu 
Calamus aromaticus officinarum , C. B. P. Calamus aro* 
malleus vulgaris , rnultis, Acorum , J, B. The true 
B Acorus 
