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- The unripe Fruit of this Service is excellent 
_ againft Purgings, but it can only be had Recourfe 
_ to when in Seafon, for there is no Way of pre- 
ferving the Virtue in them all the Year. 
. SHEPHERDS Purst. 
: - BURSA PASTORIS. 
. THE moft common almoft of all wild Plants, 
; over-running our Garden-Beds, and Court- 
_ Yards. The Leaves be fpread upon the Ground, 
_ and are long, fomewhat broad, and more or lefs 
indented at the Edges, for in this, there is great 
Variation: The Stalks are round, upright, and 
eight or ten Inches high, they. have few Leaves 
- onthem. The Flowers ftand at the Tops in little 
Clufters, and they are {mall and white: Below 
there is commonly a Kind of Spike of the Seed- 
_ Veffels; thefe are fhort, broad, and of the Figure 
of a Bag, or Pouch, and are divided a little at 
_ the End. The Seeds are fmall and yellowifh, and 
the Roots white. 
The Juice of Shepherds Purfe is cooling and 
__ aftringent ; it is good againft Purgings, with fharp 
and bloody Stools, againft the Bleeding of the 
Piles; and the Overflowings of the Menfes. 
SKIRERF ~ 
SISARUM. | 
A Plant kept in ur Kitchen Gardens. It grows 
three or four Feet high. The Stalk is round, — 
hollow, ftriated, and fomewhat branched: The — 
Leaves are each compofed of three or five fmaller, — 
two or four fet oppofite and one at the End; they 
are se ferrated at the Edges, and fharp 
pointed; the End, Leaf is longer than the others. - 
‘The Flowers -are little: They ftand in round - 
