The Ufeful Family Herbah. 360 
There is a leffer greener Kind of Tobacco, cals 
led Englifb Tobacco; It has the fame Virtues 
with the other, but in amore remifs Degree. The 
Leaves are often fold for thofe of the other. 
TORMENTIL. 
TORMENTILLA. 
A Very common wild Plant, but very pretty; 
~ and of great Virtue. The Stalks are eight 
Inches long, but they.don’t ftand upright. They 
are very flender, round, and of a brownith Colour. 
The Leaves ftand feven or thereabout together at 
a Joint, allrifing from one Bafe; they are narrow, 
longifh, pointed at the Ends, and ferrated at the 
_ Edges, and of a deep Green. The Flowers are 
fmall, but of a beautiful fhining Yellow: They 
_ grow on flender Foot-Stalks, and are of the Shape 
and Colour of the Crow-Foot Flowers, only more 
beautiful; and much lefs. The Roots are large, — 
thick, and crooked, brown on the Outfide, and 
- redifh within, and of an auftere Tafte._ ee 
. The Rodt is the Part ufed, and it is beft dried; 
it may be given in Powder, or Decoction. The 
- Powder is excellent againft the Bleeding of the 
Piles, Bloody Stools, and the Overflowings of 
the Menfes. Two Qunces of the Root added to 
a Quart of Harts-horn Drink in the boiling, 
- gives it a pretty Colour, and adds to its Virtue; 
_ the Root is cordial as well as aftringent, and oe 
- rates alittle by Sweat : This Deco¢ction is therefore 
_ very ferviceable in Fevers, attended with Purgings. 
Te checks this moderately, and is good againft the 
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