252 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
Coughs: It is recommeded particularly in- that 
called the Chincough. 
CoMMOoON GRounND Moss. 
MUSCUS TERRESTRIS VUL- 
GARIS. 
A Pretty but very {mall Plant. It creeps on 
a the Ground, or rifes in Tufts two or three 
Inches high, according to the Place. The Stalks 
are very flender, but they are thick covered with 
Leaves, and their Branches are difpofed in fuch a 
Manner, that they in fome Degree refemble Fern. 
The Leaves are very fmall, of a triangular Shape, 
and of a bright Green; they ftand loofely on the 
Jower Part of the Stalks, but on the upper, they 
lie clofe and cover them. It very racy produ- 
ces its Seeds ; but when it does, there rife naked 
_ and very flender Pedicles an Inch long from the 
Bofoms of the Leaves, and at the Top of each of 
thefe, ftands a little oblong Head, of a brownith 
red Colour, covered with aCap like an Extin- 
guifher in Shape, and full of a fine green Duft. — 
~The whole Piant is ufed, it is to be dried and 
powdered, and is given with Succefs againft Over- 
flowings of the Me and all Bleedings, it is _ 
alfo good againft the Whites. 
Moss or an Human SKULL. 
MUSCUS EX CRANIO HUMANO. 
"THERE is not any particular Kind of Mot 
"_ that grows upon the human Skull, nor does” 
any Mofs by growing upon it acquire any parti- 
cular Virtues, whatever fancyful People may have 
imagined. In England, we commonly ufe the 
Mofs juft defcribed, when it happens to run over 
an human Skull, that has been laid by Accident, 
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