The Ufeful Family Herbal, 251 
The Powder of this Mofs, is an excellent Af . 
tringent ; it is to be dried in an Oven, and’ beat 
ina Mortar: The white Fibres will remain, when 
the foft Part has gone through the Sieve, they ate 
of no Ufe, the other has all the Virtue. Tt is 
good againft the Whites, againft Overflowin 
of the Menfes, and bloody Fluxes, and againit 
Spitting of Blood, it deferves to be much aa 
regarded, than itis in the prefent Practice. The 
Dofe is half a Dram. 
- Cup Moss, 
s MUSCUS PYXIDATUS. 
A Common little Plant on Ditch Banks, by 
Wood Sides, and in dry barren Places. It 
confifts of a thin Coat of a leafy Matter, fpread 
upon the Surface of the Ground, and-of a kind 
of little Cups rifing from-it. The leafy Part is 
_ dry and without Juice, divided into feveral Por- 
_ tions, and thefe irregularly notched; it is grey or 
greenifh on the upper Side, and whitifh underneath. 
The Cups are half an Inch high. They have 
_ €ach a thick Stem, and an per Mouth, and ra- 
ther refemble a clumfy drinking Glafs, than a 
Cup. They are of a grey Colour, often with 
fome odd Mixture of green, of a dufty Surface, 
 fometimes they grow one from the Edge of ano- 
ther, up to the third or fourth Stage: They have 
~ alfo many other accidental Varieties; and fome- 
times they bear little brown Lumps, which are 
fuppofed to contain the Seeds. ieee 
The whole Plant is to be ufed, it is to be taken — 
then there is to be added as much Milk as there 
_ }8 of the Liquor, and it is to be fweetened with 
 “‘freth' from the Grovad,, ‘hook clein, end balled —— 
in Water, till the Decoétion be very ftrong; 
