“ 
th ] iantleden of -itefeom'her husband, who was a: 
the blue flag, and drink a tea cupful of the skunk cabbage root’ de- 
pe 
1d a great price for the secret from Louis XV. of 
_ whose order it was published. — The powdered plant was generally 
e N. and may be given in doses of from sixty 
-achms. It may also be taken indecoction, and drank 
ay after day, giving a purge of blue flag, or mandrake, to 
other method of administering it is, the day previous to taking 
thé powder, to give a smart purge, as of blue flag, and after its opera- 
‘to take a light supper. The next morning give three drachms . 
powdered fern root, and two hours afterwards another dose of 
coction every hour till the tapeworm is expelled: taking care to sit 
on a close stool, and not. break the worm, but pull it gently. Incase — 
worm is not expelled the first day, the medicine is to be repeat- 
ext. The worm has been destroyed by a drachm of the 
Stee PONDS 20d er ecisras aes 
Linum Usitatissimum. The seeds and thei 
ey ey ea Peer K Paes er Pigg + 
Flaxseed is emollient and demulcent, and is used in poultices. 
The infusion or tea, is a good pectoral, and when sweetened with 
honey, is very proper in heat of urine, recent coughs and rheums, and 
diseases of the breast and lungs. 
Five Fiveer, or Cinquzrow. Potentilld Reptans. The leaves 
z ; and root. ied . 
ASS, trail along the ground with long slender 
. |; each stem has five leaves, placed together, 
yws by road sides, on meadow banks, and waste 
Riga. ¥f ‘ihe thenses, f°. | 
rac Foxe.ove. Digitalis Purpuera. The leaves. 
This elegant plant, is indigenous, biennial, very common on hedge — 
banks and sides of hills, in dry, —— or sandy - -escoatag 3 
beauty of its a) france, gained it a place in gardens. The stalk 1s © 
ee taping an four feet in height ; leaves large, oval, wrinkled, — 
veined, on short winged foot-stalks, downy underneath ; the flowers, 
always on one side are purple, bell-shaped, marked internally with 
little dark colored spots placed in whitish rings, and long hairs 
