172 The Ufeful Family HerhaL 



Comprefs : They then bind them on with Linen 

 Rags, and never take off the Drefllng for three 

 Days, at the End of which Time in moft Cafes 

 they only find a Scar : The Cure being perfeded. 

 This is the Subflance of a pompous Account fent 

 lately to a Perfon of Diftinflion with fome Leaves 

 of the Herb. There is no doubt of the Truth, 

 and the Surgeons will very well underlland the Na- 

 ture of the Cure; the Difcovery however is not 

 new, for the Herb has always been reckoned a- 

 rnong the vulnerary Plants ; and fome have pre- 

 tended that it will fmgly cure the Kino-s Evil, 

 but that is not to be expeded ; at the fame Time 

 it may be proper to obferve tHat we do not want 

 Plants for the fame Ufe in England; we have the 

 ^tit/an which is to be applied in the famic Manner, 

 and has the fame Effeft ; Clov/ns All-heal, and 

 many othery named in their Places. 



Hares Foot, 

 LAGOPUS. 



I 



^ Common little Plant, fmgular in the Tuft, 



which contains its Seeds, and whence it has 

 its Name, but not fo much regarded as it oucrht 

 to be for its Virtues. The Stalks are numerotis, 

 round, flender, and Ipread upon the Ground, each 

 js divided into a Number of leffer Branches. The 

 Leaves are fmall, oblong, narrow, of a pale 

 green Colour, and hairy j and they Ihnd three 

 together in the Manner of the Trefoils. The 

 Flowers are fmall and of a faint Red, they ftand fe- 

 veral together in a Ihort Spike, and the Cups 

 which receive them at the Bafe are downv, this 



jves the fmgular Afpeft of Hairinefs to thefe 



eads, and their Softnefs to the Touch 



The 



