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ftie- It is frequent in our woods aiul anioiag busTies. 

 anJ flowers in June. The stalks are almost naked 

 and a foot higli^ and the flowers are purple. 

 There grow manj leaves froni the root ; they 

 have long stalks^ and are broad, above an inch 

 long, of a blackish green colour, and hairy, blunt 

 at the point, and indented about the edges. 

 The stalks are square, of a dark colour, hairy, 

 and not very strong. The leaves of them are 

 very few, and very distant ; but they stand two 

 at a joint, and are like the others. The flowers 

 stand at the tops in form of a kind of thick short 

 spike ; they are srnall and purple, and of the shape 

 of the flowers of mint. 



Befony is to be gathered .when just going to 

 flower. It h excellent for disorders of the head, 

 and for all nervous complaints. The habitual 

 use of it will cure the most inveterate head-aches. 

 It may be taken as tea or dried and powdered. 

 Some mix it with tobacco and smoke it, but thi» 

 is a more uncertain method. 



There is a tall plant with small purple flowers 

 growing by waters, thence and from the shape 

 of the leaves called water betony, but it has none 

 of the virtues of this plant ; it is a kind of fig-wort^ 

 and possesses the virtues of that plant, but in an 

 inferior dee-re 



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Bind Weed- Convolvulus major. 



A COMMON wild plant which climbs about 

 t>nr hedges, and bears very large white flowers. 

 The stalks are weak and slender, but very tough, 

 six or eight feet long, and twi^ about any thing 

 that can support them. The leaves are large, 

 and of the shape of an arrow-head, bearded at 



ihe baae, and sharp at the point : they stand 



