2 54 'Ae Ufeful Family Plerhal 



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Motherwort. 

 CARDIACA. 



Tall and not unhandfome wild Plant If! 

 grows wild about Farm-yards, and in drV 



Places. It is a yard high, the Stalk is fq 

 thick, upright, and firm. The Leaves ftand on 

 long Foot-Stalks, two at each Joint. They are 

 divided into three Parts, the Middle one being 

 the longeft, and are deeply indented at the Edges-, 

 of a dark green Colour, and bad Smell. The 

 Flowers are of a pale Red : They grow in a Kind 

 of prickly Cups, from the Bofoms of the Leaves, 

 furrounding the Stalks. The Root creeps, and 

 is whitifh. 



The whole Plant may be ufed dried, but the 

 Tops frefh cut are beft ; they are to be given in 

 a ftrong Infufion or Decoflion. It is good againft' 

 hyfteric Complaints, and it promotes the Menfes. 

 It is famous for curing the Palpitation of the Heart, 

 when that arifes from an hyfteric Caufe : For there 

 are Palpitations, which nothing can cure. 



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Mouse-ear. 



PILOSELLA. 



j!^N exceeding pretty little Plant, with whldni 

 - Leaves, and large briglit yellow Flowers, fre-^ 

 quent on our Ditch-Banks. The Leaves grow in 

 little Clufters, and are longifh and broad, of a 

 dark Green on the upper Side, but white under- 

 neath, and fo much of the under Part is ufu- 

 ally- feen, that the whole looks whitifh. The Stalks 

 trail upon the Ground, and take R^t at every 

 Joint : The Leaves have long Hairs upon them. 

 1 he Stalks which l\ipport the Flowers rife fingle. 

 I hey are hairy, they have no Leaves^ and each 



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