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carried fo far, we have reafon to hope^ 
that things will go better. The acmella 
which is very ferviceable in the Hone, 
frnce it is extremely rare, and dear, is to 
be fupplyed out of thofe plants which 
are really akin to it. This choice he- 
longs to the botanifl: for which reafon 
our prefident has obliged the world by 
informing it, that the Jtegesieckia y asneareft 
allyed to the acmcl 'la, may be rightly fub- 
ftituted in its room g ; which Dr. PlafTel- 
quift has confirmed by an experiment 
made here at Upfal upon a young man 
affiided with the ilone. The fkilfull in 
botany will eafily judge that the German 4 
leopard's bane , as well as the common , car-? 
ries fufpicion of poifon; yet the former 
has been looked on as harmiefs by thole* 
who were ignorant of botany, and the 
latter dangerous. The daify is cried up 
in vain on account of the excellent ver~ 
tue it is fuppofed to pofiefs. Pra&iti- 
oners, unlefs they be fkilfull in botany* 
will fcarcely allow the wild rofepmry 
e Vid. Amamit, Academ, voL 2. p. 15 1. where feme fuc- 
cedaneums to the Senega root are mentioned, founded ox\ 
the fame principles, 
p 3 
to 
