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 ( 7 ). • jaundice, and other biliary obftrudions. Dr. Cullen has had fe- ‘‘ veral inftances of their good effeds in fome cutaneous difeafes of “ the herpatic and feemingly cancerous kind The leaves may be given in powder from 3i to 9ij for a dofe two or three times a day, but a ftrong infufion of them is perhaps preferable, and with delicate ftomachs it may be necelfary to con- join a grateful aromatick : they impart their properties both to wa- tery and fpiritous menftrua, and an extrad; is ordered to be prepared from them in the Ph. Dan. p. 171. Efficax et frequentis commodi- que ufus. Murray, ■ • LEONTODON TARAXACUM. COMMON DANDELION. STNONTMA, Taraxacum, Pharm, Loiid, Edm, Dens Leon IS, AuEiorum, CJafs Syngenefia. Order Polygamia i®qualis. L. Gen, Plant, .^12, EJf, Gen, Char, Recept, nudum. Cal,’ imbricatus, fquarnis laxi- ufculis. Pappus plumofus. Spec, Char, L. T. calyce -fquarnis - inferne reflexis, foliis fun- cinatis denticulatis Isevibus. DANDELION is fo very common, that a plot of ground can fcarcely be feen where it does not prefent its yellow flowers*. It is eafily diftinguilhed from the hawkweeds and other ligulated ^ Mat Med. vol. 2. p. ^7^. when under the powerful influence of the fun in a fummer’s morning, an evident motion of the flowerets may be difcpvered. MS Le6l. of the late Dr, Hope. plants,
 * Semifiofculoji ’Tourn, corollis ligidatis omnibus,
 * It has been obferved that thefe flowers poflefs a certain degree of fenfibility, for