238 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
MAUDLIN. 
AGERATUM. 
A Common Plant in our Gardens, not without 
: Beauty, but kept more for its Virtues. It is 
a Foot high. The Stalk is round, upright, firm, 
fingle, and of a pale Green.. The Leaves are — 
very numerous, and they are longifh, ‘narrow, _ 
and ferrated about the Edges. The Flowers are 
fmall and naked, confifting only of a Kind of | 
Thrums; but they ftand in a large Clufter to- 
gether, at the Top of the Stalk, in the manner — 
of an Umbel. The whole Plant has a pleafant 
~ Smell. : 2 
The whole is ufed, frefh or dried; but it is 
beft frefh gathered. An Infufion of it taken for 
a Continuance of Time, is good againft Obftruc- 
tions of the Liver: It operates by Urine. 
STINKING MAYWEED. 
COTPTULA FGQ:TiDA.. 
A, Common wild Plant in Corn Fields, and wafte 
Grounds, with finely divided Leaves, 
white Flowers like Daizies. The Stalk is round 
and ftriated. The Herb grows a Foot high. 
The Leaves are like thofe of Cammomile, only 
a blacker Green, and larger. ©The Flowers 
ten or a Dozen near one another, at the Tops Of _ 
the Branches; but they grow feparate, not in 4 
Clufter. The whole Plant has a ftrong Smell. 
_ The Infufion of the freth Plant is good in all 
hyfteric Complaints, and it promotes the Menfes. 
The Herb boiled foft, is an excellent Pultice, for 
e Piles. | 
Mrapow 
