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of their having been open; and they ftand each 
on a fingle Stalk, which rifes from the Root, and 
has no Leaves on it. It flowers in Fanuary. 
The Root is an excellent Purge, it works brifkly 
but fafely ; it deftroys Worms, and is good in 
Dropfies, Jaundice, and many other Difeafes, and 
even in Madnefs. But it is very neceflary to keep 
it in one’s own Garden, for, if the Root be bought, 
they commonly fell that of the green-flowered 
wild or baftard Hellebore in its Place, which is a 
rough Medicine. 
Lapites BEpsTRAW: 
GALLIUM LUTEUM, . 
Pretty wild Plant frequent about Hedges in 
June and the fucceeding Months. The Stalk _ 
1s weak and two Feet high, the Leaves are of a 
blackith Green and fn Il, and the Flowers are — 
epi The Stalk is angular and whitith, very _ 
Srittle and feldom ftraight; the Leaves ftand a great — 
Many at each Joint, and are {mall, narrow, and 
difpofed about the Stalk like the Rowels of a 
_ Spur; the Flowers grow in great Tufts on the 
ops of the Stalks, fo that they make a very — 
Confpicuous Appearance, though fingly they are eee 
ery fmall. 
This Herb is little regarded, but ithas very 
at Virtue; it fhould be gathered, when the 
nade, An Infufion of it will cure the moft 
Violent = at the Nofe, and almoft all other 
Evacuations of Blood. 
jowers are not quite blown, and dried in the = 
