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for tl^e head-ach ; it is to be snuffed up iLc no=^, 

 and it wiH occasion sneezing; inwardly taken \i 

 Works by urine, and is good in the Jaundice/ 



Hog's Fennel. Peiiccdaniim. 



* A WILD plant with divided leaves and umbels 

 of yellow flowersj and thence bearing a remote re- 

 semblance of fennel. It grows two feet high : the 

 stalk is round, striated, hollow, upright, and 

 branched. The leaves arc like tho«e of fennel, but 

 tlie^ divisions are much broader, and they run in 

 threes. The flow.crs are little and yellow, but the 

 ^clusters of thera are large^ and the seed is oblong and 

 flat. At the top of the root, there is always found 

 *atuftof hairy matter. This is made up of the fibres 

 of decayed leaves, but it has a singular appearance. 

 The root is large, long, and brown, and this is 

 the part used as a medicine. It is to be boiled in 

 water, and the decoction drank night and morning ; 

 it dissolves tough phlegm, and helps asthmatic 

 people; it also works by urine, and promotes the 

 flenses, and is good in all obstructions. 



*' F<ENUGREEK. Focuum Grmcum. 



a A PLANT of the trefoil kind, but singular in 

 its manner of growth, cultivated in fields in many 

 places far the sake of the seed, it is emollient. It 

 grows a foot and a half high ; the stalks are round, 

 Mriated, and branched. The leaves arc short and 

 broad: they stand three upon every stalk as in 

 the common trefoils: and arc indented about the 

 edges. The flowers are white and small, and they 

 resemble a pea-blossom ; the pods are flat, and in 

 them is contained a quantity of yellow seeds, of an 

 irregular figure, and disagreeable smell. 



