The Ufeful Family Herbal: 163 
given by the Country People in the Bloody Flux 
and Overflowing of the Menfes. = 
Foois SToNEs. : 
SAT YRIUM SIVE ORCHIS.-.~ - 
A Beautiful -wild Plant in our Meadows and’ 
Paftures in Zune. The Leaves are long and’ 
fpotted, and the Flowers are purple. Tt grows- 
ten Inches high. ‘The Leaves are fix Inches long, 
and three Quarters of an Inch broad, of a ve 
deep Green, with large and irregular Blotches of 
black in different Parts. The Stalk is round, 
thick, upright, fingle, and flefhy ; it has two or. 
_ three fmaller Leaves of the fame F igure, and at- 
the Top ftand the Flowers, in a Spike of an Inch 
and a half long; they are not very large, and’ 
of Shape different from the Generality of Flowers; 
their Colour is a deep and glofty Purple; but 
fometimes they are white. The whole Plant is- 
juicy. “The Root confitts of two round Bulbs or 
two round Lumps like a Pair of Tefticles, and is” 
white and full of a flimy Juice. x 
The Root is the only Part ufed. It is fuppof- 
ed to be a Strengthener of the Parts of Genera- 
tion, and a Promoter of Venereal Defires ent 
with what, Truth one cannot fay. Externally: <3 
plied in Cataplafms, it is excellent in hard Swell-_ 
ings. There are a great many other kinds of | 
Orchis in our Meadows, but only this is Hed. 
The Root called Salep by our Druggitts, is os = 
brought from Turkey, and is the Root of a Plant 
of this Kind. It is ftrengthening and reftorative, 
good in Confumptions and all Decays, 
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