The Ufeful Faintly HerhaL 261 



ColicNard. 

 NARDUS CELTICA. 



Little Plant of the Valerian Kind, frequent in 

 many Parts of Etir^pe^ but net a Native of 

 England. It is fix or eight Inches in Height, the 

 Stolks are round, flriated, and greenifh: The Leaves 

 the Bottom, are oblong, narrow at the Bafe, and 

 rounded at the End, and of a yellowifh green Co- 

 lour. Thofe on the Stalks ftand in Pairs, they 

 are fmall and deeply cut •, the Flowers ftand in a 

 little Clufter at the Top of the Stalk-, they ate 

 finall and white, the Root is long, llender, and 

 creeping. 



The Root is the Part ufed, our Druggifts keep 

 it dry. It is beft taken in Infufion. It operates 

 hy Urine, and in fome Degree by Sweat, but that 

 very moderately, it is commended in Fevers and 

 in the Jaundice 



Nettle. 

 U R T I C A. 



A Plant too common to need much Defcriptlon. 

 " It is three Feet high, the Stalks are angu- 

 lated and rough ; the Leaves are large, and of a 

 beautiful Shape, regularly from a broad Bafe 

 diminifhing to a Iharp Point, and nicely ferrated 

 round the Edges j the Colour of thefe and ef the 

 Stalks, is a dulky Green, and they are both co- 

 vered with a Kind of Prickles, which eafily make 

 their Way into the Skin, and have at their Bafe, 

 a hollow Bag of fharp Juice, which gets into the 

 Wound, occafioning that Swelling in Inflamma- 

 tion and Pain that follows. The naked Eye may 

 diftinguifh thefe Bags at the Bottom of the Prickles 

 on the Stalk of a full grown Nettle, but a Mi- 

 Crofcope Ihews them all over. The Flowers of 



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