FAMILY HERBAL, Tj 



Cowslip of Jerusalem. Pulmonaria maculata. 



A LOW plant, but not without beauty, Icept in 

 gardens i'o r the credit of its virtues, which are 

 indeed more and greater than the present neglect 

 of it would have one to suppose. It grows to eight 

 or tea inches high ; the leaves are long and broad., 

 hairy, of a deep green, and spotted with white 

 spots on the upper side, but of a paler colour, and 

 uot spotted underneath. The stalks are slender, 

 angulated, and hairy, and have smaller leaves on 

 them, but of the same figure with those from the 

 root. The flowers arc small and reddish, and grow 

 several in a cluster at the top of the stalk. The 

 root is fibrous. 



The leaves are used; they should he gathered 

 before the stalks grow up, and dried ; they are 

 excellent in decoction for coughs, shortness of 

 breath, and all disorders of the lungs ; taken in 

 powder, they stop the overflowing of the menses ; 

 and when fresh bruised and put into a new made 

 wound, they stop the bleeding and heal it. 



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A COMMON wild plant in our woods and 

 thickets, with narrow blackish leaves, and bright 

 yellow flowers. It is eight or ten inches high, 

 The stalks are square and slender ; very brittle, 

 weak, and seldom quite upright. The leaves are 

 oblong and naYrow ; sometimes of a dusky green 

 colour, hut oftener purplish or blackish ; they 

 are broadest at the hase, and small all the way to 

 the point; and they are commonly, but not always 

 indented a little about the edges. The flower? 

 stand, or rather hang, all on one side of the stalk, 

 m a kind of loose spike ; they are small and yellow, 



