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•Jutting of blood, and the overflowing of the men- 



ses. It is also good against violent purgings aact 

 against the whites. 



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Bramble. Rulus vulgaris. 



THE most common bush in our hedges. The 

 stalks are woodj, angulated, and of a pur- 

 plish colour ; and they are armed with crooked 

 spines; the leaves are rough, indented, and stand 

 either five or three on a stalk. The flowers are 

 white, with a yery faint tinge of purplish, and 

 the fruit is composed oi a number of small 

 grains. 



The most neglected things have t^eir use. 

 The buds of the bramble-leayes boiled in spring 

 water, and the decoction sweetened with hone 

 are excellent for a sore throat. A sjrup ma 

 of the juice of the unripe fruit, with very fine 

 sugar, is cooling and astringent. It is good in 

 immoderate fluxes of the menses, and even in 

 purgings. The berries are to be gathered for this 

 purpose, when they are red. 



Blue Bottle. Ct/anus 



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A VERY common and a very pretty weed 

 among our corn ; the leaves are narrow, and of a 

 whitish green ; and the flowers of a very beauti' 

 fill blue and larga The plant is about a fool 

 Iiigh, and, when in flower, makes a conspi<Juous 

 and elegant appearance. The root i* hard and 

 fibrous ; the stalk is very firm, and white angu- 

 isted, and branched. The leaves that grow from 

 the root have some notches on the edges ; those 

 on one the stalk have none, and they are narrow 

 like blades oi glass ; the flowers stand only oa the 



