Hje Ufeftd Family Herbal 





The Root is the Part ufed, and it is b;;fl frefh 

 taken up. It is given in Infufion, and it is cor- 

 .dial, and operates by Sweat •, it is good in Fevers> 

 but little ufed. , > 



Vipers Bugloss. 



ECHIUM. 



Common wild Plant, about our Path-way 



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and on Ditch-Banks, known by its fpotted 

 Stalks, and fine blue Flowers. It is a Foot and 

 half high, the Stalk is round, thick, firm, hairy, 

 and upright ; it is of a whitifli Colour, ftained 

 with SpoS and Lines of Blue, Red, and Purple. 

 The Leaves are longifti and narrow; they are 



and of a deep dufky Green, broad and 

 blunt 'at the Point, and have no Foot-Stalks:: 

 The Flowers are large, and of a beautiful Biue, 

 with red Stamina in the Middle. 

 • The Leaves are ufed -, thofe growing from the 

 Root, are beft -, an Infufion of them is cordial, 

 and operates by Sweat i it is good in Fevers, 

 and againft Head-achs, and all nervous Com 

 plants 



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The Virginian S n a k e r o o t 



Plant. 

 SERPENTARIA VIRGINIANA. 



A Little Plant, of the Birthwort Kind, but dif- 

 ferent from the feveral Sorts of that Plant 

 defcribcd already in their Places, in its Roots, 

 and in its Manner of growing. It is two Feet 

 hicrh, when it grows in a favourable Soil, and has 

 eSkes or any thing elfe to fupport it. The Stalks 

 are weak and green, the Leaves ftand irreguIariy 

 on them, and they are oblong, narrow, and aun- 

 culatcd at the Egit«m. The Flowers ^^^Jj^^ 



