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jour. The Flowers are white and the Points of 
_ The beft Part of the Plant, for medicinal Ufe, 
is the Tops of the young Shoots, a Decoction of 
a made a ftrong, = Sage on thin 
Hoarfenefles* Sits ftanding, and all Ditordens 
of the Lungs. The fame Decoction if taken in 
large Dofes, and for a Continuance, promotes the 
Menfes, and opens all Obftructions. ~~ . 
BLACK HOREHOUND. 
“J BALLOT E. : 
A Common wild Plant, of a difagreeable Smell, 
“thence alfo called by fome. ftinking Hore- 
hound. The Stalks are fquare, the Leaves grow 
two at every Joint, and are broad, fhort, and of 
a blackifh green Colour, but in Shape not unlike 
thofe of the white kind. The Flowers ftand in 
Clufters round the Stalk at the Joints, asin the 
other, but they are red. The whole Plant has 2 
difmal A The Root is fibrous. | 
The Plant is to be ufed frefh and dried, 
and it has more Virtue than moft imagine. It 
is to be given in Form of Tea, it promotes the 
Menfes, and is fuperior to moft pag me a Re- 
medy in hyfteric Cafes, Faintings, Convulfions, 
and low Spiritednefs, and all the Train of thofe 
 Diforders.. coaroae . 
Se Sr HORE ET AE. 
EQUISETUM SEGETALE. 
ACommon and yet very fingular wild Plant, 
~” frequent in our Corn-Fields, and compofed 
of Branches only, without Leaves, there are alfo 
Many other kinds of Horfetail. It is a Foot 
