NATURAL HISTORY. 
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(yROWS on a thin, leafy ftalk, about a 
foot high. From the chief Item grow many 
branches, which are garniflied with long, 
fmall, pointed, and plain-edged leaves. On 
the top of each of the fmaller branche';, is a 
yellow flower, which greatly refembles the 
daify, both in fize and form. If reared in a 
green-houfe, this flower will bloflbm in 
March : but, if cultivated in a garden, the 
ufual time of flowering is in June ; when 
it may be gathered for medicinal purpofes. 
St. John’s wort is reared in mofl; phyfic gar- 
dens, from its poflefling qualities that great- 
ly aflift the cure of the jaundice : it is like- 
wife a chief ingredient in that valuable bal- 
fam fo well known by the name of Friar’s 
balfam, or Turlington’s drops. 
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