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The Ufeful Family Herbal. 83 
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| HORMINUM. 
Chay is a common Plant in our Gardens, not 
very beautiful; but kept for its Virtues. It 
grows two Feet and a half high; the Leaves are 
rough, and the Flowers of a whitifh blue. The 
Stalks are thick, flefhy, and upright; they are 
clammy to the Touch, and a little hairy. The 
Leaves are large, wrinkled, and of a dufky Green, 
broad at the Bafe; and fmaller to the Point, which 
is obtufe ; the Flowers ftand in long loofe Spikes, 
they are difpofed in Circles round the upper Parts 
of the Stalks, and are gaping and large, the Cups 
anes they ftand are robuft and in fome Degree 
Prickly. = << 
te whole Herb, is ufed frefh or dried. It 2 
Cordial, and in fome Degree aftringent. It 
ftrengthens the Stomach, is good againft Head-— 
_ achs, and ftops the Whites, but for this laft Pur- 
pole, it is neceffary to take it a long Time; and 
_ there are many Remedies more powerful. 
_ There is a kind of wild Clary on our Ditch 
Banks, and in dry Grounds, which is fuppofed 
to poffefs the fame Virtues with the Garden kind. 
_ The Seeds of this are put into the Eyes to take . 
_ +OUut any little offenfive Subftance fallen into them. 
As foon as they are put in, they gather a Coat 
Of Mucilage about them, and thjs catches hold 
Of any little thi it meets with in the Eye _ Dr. 
; x iée: has perfectly explained this in his Book 
of Seeds. | Tied tp 
