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FAMILY HERBATi 85 



Coltsfoot. Tussilaga. 



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A COMMON Wild herb, of excellent virtuea, 



but so different in the spring and summer, as that 

 it is scarce to be known far the same. The flow- 

 ers appear in spring without the leaves ; they 

 grow on stalks six or eight inches high, round, 

 'thick, fleshy, and of a reddish colour, on which 

 there stand a kind of films instead of leaves. The 

 flowers grow one at the top of each stalk ; they are 

 yellow, and as large as those of the dandelion, and 

 like them. 



The leaves come up after these are decayed, 

 they are as broad as ones hand, roundish, and sup- 

 ported each on a thick hollow stalk, they are greea 

 on the upper side, and white and downy underneath. 

 The ilowers are not minded, these leaves only are 



used. 



CoLU3iBiNE. Aquile^ia. 



A. COMMON garden flowerj but a native ako 

 of our country. It grows two feet high ; the 

 leaves are divid(id into many parts, generally in a 

 threefold order ; the stalks are round, firnj, up- 

 rightj and a little hairy ; the flowers are blue and 

 large ; the seeds are contained in a kind of horned 

 capsules. The leaves and the seeds are used ; a 

 decoction of \\ie leaves is said to be good against 

 sore throats. The seeds open obstructions, and 



ent in the jaundice^ and other complaints 



from like 



CoMFKEY. Sympliytum. 



A COMMON wild plant, of great virtue; it is 



frequeot by ditch sides ; it grows a foot and half 



