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species to which they gave the name. Our 
quacks, ever eager to profit by ignorance* 
contrive, by a gross artifice, to give the 
miniature figure of a man to different roots, 
which they show to the credulous, assuring 
them that these arc real Mandrakes, which 
are found only in a small and almost inacces¬ 
sible district of China. They tell them also 
that the Mandrake cries lamentably when 
pulled up out of the ground; that the person 
who pulls up one of these roots is sure to 
die soon afterwards: that, in order to procure 
it, the earth must be dug away from it, a 
cord tied round it, and the other end fastened 
to a dog, which pulls it away, and then has to 
pay the penalty of the impious deed. Were 
we to collect all the absurd and superstitious 
notions that have originated in ancient errorfe, 
respecting the supposed virtues of plants 
which never existed, they would form a curi¬ 
ous volume. 
Recollections, Painful, Flos Adonis. Page 147. 
_ Tender, Periwinkle. Page 89. 
Reconciliation, Hazel, Page 255. 
Reserve, Maple. The Maple has been made 
