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Cowslip of Jerusalem. Pulmonaria maciilata. 



A LOW plant, but not without beautj, kept in 

 gardens for the credit of its virtues^ whicli are 

 indeed more and greater than the present neglect 

 of it would have one to suppose. It grows to eight 

 or ten inches high; the leaves are long a.id broad, 

 Iiairj^ of a deep green, and spotted with white 

 spots on the upper side, but of a paler colour, and 

 Dot spotted underneath. The stalks are slender, 

 angulated, and hairv, and have smaller leases on 

 them, but of the same figure with those from the 

 root. The flowers arc small and reddish, and grow 

 several in a <^uster at the top of the stalk. The 

 root is fibrous. 



The leaves are used; thej should be gathered 

 before the stalks grow up, and dried ; thej are 

 excellent in decoction for coughs, shortness of 

 breath, and all discrders of the lungs ; taken in 

 powder, thej stop the overflowing of the menses ; 

 and when fresh bruised and put into a new made 

 wound, thej stop the bleeding and heal it. 



Cow-wiiEAT. Cratcogonum. 



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A. COMMON wild plant in our woods and 

 thickets, with narrow blackish leaves, and bright 

 j^ellow flowers. It is eight or ten inches high. 

 The stalks are square and sleiider ; verv brittle, 

 weak, and seldom quite upright. The leaves are 

 oblong and narrow; sometimes of a duskj green 

 colour, but oftener purplish or blackish ; thej 

 are broadest at the base, and small all the way to 

 the point ; and thej are commonly, but not always 

 indented a little about the edges. The flowers 

 stand, or rather hang, all on one side of the stalk, 



ixi a kind of loose spike ; they are small and yrelloWi 



