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long in use with the common people, as a remedy for 

 many complaints : it is now but httle prescribed by 

 medical practitioners, but Ray gives a remarkable 

 instance of its efficacy in removing a violent and inve- 

 terate head-ache by drawing the juice of the plant up 

 the nostrils. 



WILD SAGE. Teiicrium scorodojiia. This is a 

 common english plant, the leaves of which in appear- 

 ance somewhat resemble the garden sage, and when 

 rubbed in the hand have the same scent as the Hop. 

 In the island of Jersey it is said to be used in brewing 

 as a bitter j and I have known it used in Worcester- 

 shire for that purpose, dried and prepared like the 

 Hop, in the proportion of twice tlie quantity, without 

 any perceivable difference in the flavour of the beer. 

 It grows M'ild by the sides of woods and hedges : at 

 some future time, perhaps, it may be profitable to 

 raise it in plantations wdiere hops cannot be culti- 

 vated, but at present it is considered as a weed, and 

 that of itself is a prejudice to overcome. 



In the province of St. Jago in Chili there is a plant 

 of tliis Class and Order, supposed to be a species of 

 wild Basil, Ocymitm salinum,^ resembling the com- 

 mon! Basils© much as hardly to be]distinguished from 

 it, except that the flower-siem is round and jointed, 

 and its scent and taste not like the Basil, but rather 

 like tliat of a sea flag, or some marine plant. It is 

 an annual, shooting forth in the spring, and continu- 



b Ocymum fcl. ovaiis ^labr'is cauls genlculato. 



