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Sweet Briar

or SWEET BRIER United States, and grows wild, but is often planted in hedges and gardens on account of the sweet balsamic_smell of its small leaves and flowers. It is also called the eglantine.

SWEETFLAG (Acorus Calàmus), a plant, also called sweetrush, found in marshy places throughout the Northern Hemisphere . The leaves shaped; the stem bears a lateral, dense, are swordgreenish spike of flowers. The root has been employed in medicine since the time of Hippocrates. It is also used by confectioners as a candy, and by perfumers in the preparation of aromatic vinegar, hair powder, etc.

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