FAMILY HERBAL. 3j, 



tee. Tt is frequent in our woods and among bushes, 

 and flowers in June. The stalks are almost naked 

 and a foot high, and the flowers are purple. 

 There grow many leaves from the root ; they 

 have long stalks, and are broad, above an inch 

 long, of a blackish green colour, and hairy, blunt 

 at the point, and indented about the edges. 

 The stalks arc square, of a dark colour, hairy, 

 and not very strong. The leaves of them are 

 very few, and very distant ; but they stand two 

 it a joint, and are like the others. The flowers 

 stand at the tops in form of a kind of thick short 

 spike ; thev are small and purple, arid of the shape 

 of the flowers of mint. 



Betony is to be gathered .when just going to 

 flower. It is excellent for disorders of the head, 

 and for all nervous complaints. The habitual 

 use cf it will cure the most inveterate head-aches. 

 It may be taken as tea or dried and powdered. 

 Some mix it with tobacco and smoke it, but this 

 is a more uncertain method. 



There is a tall plant with small purple, flowers 

 growing by waters, thence and from the shape 

 of the leaves called water betony, but it has none 

 of the virtues of this plant ; it is a kind of lig-wort, 

 and possesses the virtues of that plant, but in an 

 inferior degree. 



Bind Weed. Convolvulus major. 



A COMMON wild plant which climbs about 

 our hedges,, and bears very large white flowers. 

 The stalks are weak and slender, but very tough, 

 six or eight f^ct long, and twist about any thing 

 that can support them. The leaves are large, 

 and of the shape of an arrow-head, bearded at 

 the base, and sharp at the point : they stand 



