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With drugs, convey'd in drink or meat,

All feats of witches counterfeit j

Kill pigs and geefe with powder'd glafs,

And make it for inchantment pafs;

With Cow-itch meazle like a leper,

And choak with fumes of Guiney-pcpper 1

Make lechers, and their punks with Dewtry,

Commit phantaftical advowtry -,

Bewitch hermetic-men to run

Stark flaring mad with Manicon,

Ceylon and India have great varieties of Hedyfarum. The Hedysarum.
H. Pulcbellum, Burm. Zeyl. tab. 52, is very remarkable for its
long fpikes of circular pods.

1'incloria, Rumpb. Amboin. v. tab. 80, is common in all parts Indigofera.
of India in a cultivated ftate : but its native country is Guzerat,
where it grows wild; but its name is derived from Indicus, a pa-
tronimic taken from the country it was originally brought from.
It is alfo found wild in Madagafcar. The rich blue dye is pro-
cured from it in all parts of Hindooftan, and ufed in the various
manufactures. Diofcorides, lib. v. c. 68, fpeaks of two kinds,
one extracted from what he calls certain Indian reeds. Pliny
errs when he fays it is from the flime which adheres to thofe
plants. Diofcorides mentions it medicinally : Pliny as a paint.

The fpecies of Citrus are two, C. Aurantium Sinenfe, or Citrus.
China orange, probably originally imported from that country,
and the C. Decumanus, Rumpb. Amboin. ii. tab. 64, the Shaddock,
or Pumpelmofe of the Wejl Indies, which is only cultivated in

H h 2 Ceylon,