Syrupus Florum Nymphæ simplex. Or Syrup of Water-Lily flowers, simple.
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Culpeper, Nicholas
College.] Take of the whitest of white Water-Lily flowers, a pound, steep them in three pounds of warm water six or seven hours, let them boil a little, and strain them out, put in the same weight of flowers again the second and third time, when you have strained it the last time, add its weight of sugar to it, and boil it to a Syrup.