To filch as wifi, to have this plant flower with them in p^a^I would e S”ge“»I aTo'e * 
cultivation : colleft the roots of the plant either in P r "o ’ P f ; j ept h in water, in which it fhould 
the bottom) filled with bog earth, immerli l the pot a iboul : two- thi j QWer it m ’ ay be br00gh t into 
continue ; the advantage of this method is, continue to bloffom for two or three weeks. A fingle root 
ring May eight flowering fiems, many of 
which had fifteen or fmteen bloffoms on them. 
Jhe fcurvyio be one of the moil common difeafes of thofe who inhabited the countries adjacent. 
Many phyficiaus have a high opinion of its medical virtues. 
( t • c f UL penetrating parts, a good diuretic and antifcorbutic , whence it is alfo of great ufe to people 
:: £ 5 “ “ 
“ B '' n H y ffAfi , theft cafes have been warranted by experience ; inveterate cutaneous difeafes have been removed 
:: r an f Mon of leaves drank to the tjuanJty of a pint a day, at proper intervals, and continued fome 
weeks.” Lewis’s Di/p. p. z+a. 
this head, lead its real virtues fliould be called in queflion. 
Dr. Tahcibu Robinson afferts, that flieep are cured of the rot by being driven to feed in marfbes where this 
plant abounds ; this, if true, would prove a moil valuable diicovery. 
