tra FAMILY HERBAL. 



Uie middle one^ but all run length-ways, like tliat 

 from the base of the leaf toward the point. The 

 stalks grow a foothigh^ their lower half is naked, 

 and their upper part thick set, first with small 

 and inconsiderable flowers, of a greenish white 

 colour^ and afterwards with seeds which are brown 

 ^nd smalL 



This is one of those common plants, which have 

 s6 much virtue^ that nature seems to have made 

 them commou for universal benefit* The whole 

 plant is to be used, and it is best fresh. A de-^ 

 coction of it in water is excellent against overflow- 

 ings of the menses^ violent purging? with bloody 

 stools and vomiting of blood, the bleeding of the 

 piles, and all other such disorders. The seeds 

 beaten to a powder, are good against the whites. 



There is a broad leaved plantain with short flow- 

 ery spikes, and hairv leaves, this has full as much 

 A'lrtueasthe kind already described: the narrow 

 leaved plantain has less, but o^thc same kind* 



JPlowman's Spxkesard. BaccJiaris mon$peliensiinf»^ 



A TALL robust wild 'plant with broad rough 

 leaves, and numerous small yellowish flowers, 

 ircquent by road-sides, and in dry pastures. The 

 jlaat grows three feet high. The stalks arc rounds 

 tnick, upright, and a little hairy. The leaves are 

 l^rge, broad from the root, and narrower on the 

 stalk ; they are bhnit at the points^ and a little in- 

 dented at the edges. The flowers grow on the 

 t(^8 of the branchp'=^, spreading out into a large 

 htad from a single stem ; they are little and yellow : 

 i]is^. seeds have dov/n fixed to them. The root is 

 bnwn and woody ; the whole plant has a fragrant 

 anl aromatic smell. 



The leaves and tors rrivcn ia decoction, are good 



