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Show A6 FLORENTINE IRIS. I must take myleave of this plant, by observing, that the juice of the fresh root only should be used, and that an old plant has most virtues in it. It might prove a dangerous remedy in incautious hands, but is said, when mixed with milk, to act in the mildest manner. = 3 _— WS MGAZa0N "ae esSEs, 6 SD —<% a Sianrata | see 6. Being boyled very soft, andlaid plaisterwise, it mollifieth and softneth the king’s-evil, and old hardswellings. 7. The roots of our ordinarie Flags are not, as Dodonzus affirms, cold and dry in the third degree, nor yet in the second ; but hot and dry, and that at least in the second degree, as any that thoroughly tasts them will confess. Neither are the faculties and vse (as some would persuadeus) to be neglected; for, as Pena and Lobel affirme, it is much to be preferred before the Galanga major, or forreine Acorus of the shops, for it imparts more heat and strength to the stomach. It binds, strengthens, and condenses ; henceit is good in the bloody flux, and staies the courses, SUGAR-CANE. SACCHARUM OFFICINARUM. Class Uf. Triandria. Order 11. Digynia. Essent. Gen. Cuar. Calyx two-valved, involucred with down: Corolla two-valyed. Spec. Coar. Flowers in panicles: Leaves flat. ee Svear is a hard but brittle substance, of a white colour, disposed to formsemi-transparent erystallizations, of a sweet taste, and without smell. When heated sufficiently it melts, is de. composed, emits a very peculiar smell, and becomes inflamed. Sugar at 40° is soluble in its own weight of water, and instill less at 212°. It is also soluble in about four parts of boiling alcohol. It combines with volatile oils, and renders them miscible with water. It also unites with potass and lime. It is decomposed bythe concentrated sulphuric andnitric acids. According to Lavoisier’s experiments, it consists of 71°76 oxygen, 17°89 |