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Maudlin. 



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Common Plant in our Gardens, not without 

 Beauty, but kept more for its Virtues. It is 

 a Foot high. The Stalk is round, upright, firm, 

 fingle, and of a pale Green. The Leaves are 

 very numerous, and they are longifh, narrow, 

 and ferrated about the Edges. The Flowers are 

 iinall and naked, confifting only of a Kind of 

 Thrums; but they ftand in a large Clufler to- 

 gether, at the Top of "the Stalk, in the manner 

 of an Umbel. The whole Plant has a pleafant 

 Smell. 



The whole is ufed, frefh or dried; but it is 

 bell frefli gathered. An Infufion of it taken for 

 a Continuance of Time, is good againft Obftruc- 



tions of the Liver : It operates by Urine. 



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Stinki'i^g Mayweed. 



COTULA FCETIDA. 



Common wild Plant in Corn Fields, and wafte 

 Grounds, with finely divided Leaves, and 

 white Flowers lilie Daizies. The Stalk is round 

 and ftriated. The Herb grows a Foot high. 

 The Leaves are like thofe of Cammomil**, only of 

 a blacker Green, and larger. The Flowers ftand 

 ten or a Dozen near one another, at the Tops of 

 the Branches ; ' but they grow feparate, not in a 

 Clufter. The whole Plant has a ftrong Smell. 



The Infufion of the frelh Plant is good in all 

 hyfteric Complaints, and it promotes the Menfes- 

 The Herb boiled foft, is an excellent Pultice for 



the Piles. 



Meadow 



