388 The Useful Family Herbal. 
flowings of the: Menfes, and is moft conveniently 
given in Powder, half 2 Dram fora Dofe. 
WENTER4GREEN. 
PYROLA, 
A® extremely pretty Plant, wildin fome Parts 
of England, but not common. The Stalk: is 
round, thick, upright, and ten Inches high. The 
Leaves all grow from the Root, for the Stalk is 
naked, they are broad, roundifh, and of a deep 
green Colour, they are of a flefhy Subftance, and 
and each on a feparate Foot-Stalk of three or 
four Inches long. ‘The Flowers are {mall, and of 
a very bright White, they ftand in a Kind of loofe 
Spike on the Tops of the.Stalks. The Root: is 
eompofed of a Quantity of thick whitifh Fibres. 
The Leaves are ufed. “A Decoétion of them 
with a Piece of Cinnamon, and a little red- Wine, 
is given againft the Overflowings of the Menfes, 
bloody Stools, and all Hamorrhages, and a- 
_ gain#t Ulcers in the urinary Paffages, and bloody | 
iimgess ooo: 
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GCEASTUN = 7 
A Plant cultivated in Fields, in many-Parts of 
~~ England, for the Ufe of the Dyers; and com-= 
monly met with in Places near thole where it was 
fown, as ifawild Plant; but it is not properly a 
Native of our Country. Itisatall,ere&, and hand= 
fome_ Plant ; the Stalk is round, thick, firm, 
“Upright, and fous Feet high; but it is ufually fo 
covered with the Leaves, that fearce any Part of 
oe to des ose Leaves are long and. | 
OF a coniiderable Breadth. They are large at the 
_ Bafe, where they grow to the Stall, ’ thou any 
