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Wood-Be TONY. 



BETONICA SYLVESTRIS. 



Common wild Herb, but ofvery great Virtue. 



It is frequent in our Woods and among Bufhes, 

 and flowers in June. The Stalks are almoft naked, 

 Stnd a Foot high, and the Flowers are purple. 

 There grow many Leaves from the Root -, they 

 have long Stalks, and are broad, above an Inch 

 long, of a blackifh green Colour and hairy, blunt 

 at the Point, and indented about the Edges. 

 The Stalks are fquare, of a dark Colour, hairy, 

 ind not very ftrong. The Leaves on them are 

 very few, and very diftant j but they (land two 

 at a Joint, and are like the others. The Flowers 

 ij:and at the Tops. in Form of a kind of thick Ihort 



5pike; they are fmall and purple, and of the Shape 



gf the Flowers of Mi 



Betony is to be gathered when juft going to 

 flower. It is excellent for Diforders of the Head, 



and for all nervous Complaints. The habitual 

 Ufe of it will cure the moft inveterate Head- 

 achs. It may be taken as Tea or dried and 

 powdered. . Some mix it with Tobacco and fmoak 

 ir, but this is a more uncertain Method. 



There is a tall Plant with fmall purple Flowers 

 growjno- by Waters, thence and from the Shape 

 gf the Leaves called Water Betony, but it has 

 none of the Virtues of this Plant •, it is a kind 

 of Figwort, and poffelTes the Virtues of that Plant, 

 but in an inferior Degree. 



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