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sometimes varying to a whitish, or inclining to 
a bluish cast, with three or four darker streaks 
running from the base. 
The flower, stalk, leaf, and root, of this plant 
are all beneficial to man. With its different 
teks al juices are composed syrups and ointments, 
is il ' equally agreeable to the taste and conducive to 
rm th health. The way-lost traveller has occasionally 
Mall found in its root a wholesome and substantial 
cit ma food. We need but look down to our feet to 
peat discover, throughout all Nature, proofs of her 
cueni love and provident care; but this affectionate 
sand be mother has often concealed, in plants as well as 
ami in human beings, the greatest virtues under the 
oa simplest appearance. 
It is, nevertheless, fortunate for the husband- 
and man that Nature should have assigned to the 
i init Mallow a place on the banks and borders of 
ni te fields, and not scattered it over the meadows, 
ic et where its spreading branches would have in~ 
ew jured the turf, and where, as cattle in general 
ne refuse to eat this plant, it would have soon over- 
a run and smothered other vegetation. 
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