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for the head-ache ; it is to be snuffed up the ndse, 

 and it will occasion sneezing' ; inwardly taken it 

 works by urine, and is good in the jaundice. 



Hog's Fennel. Peucedanum. 



A wild plant with divided leaves and umbels 

 of yellow flowers, and thence bearing a remote re- 

 semblance to fennel. It grows two feet high : the 

 stalk is round, striated, hollow, upright, and 

 branched. The leaves are like those of fennel, but 

 the divisions are much broader, and they run in 

 threes. The flowers are little and yellow, but the 

 clusters of them are large, and the seed is oblong and 

 flat. At the top of the root, there is always found 

 a tuft of hairy matter. This is made up of the fibres 

 of decayed leaves, but it has a singular appearance. 

 The root is large, long, and brown, and this is 

 the part used as a medicine. It is to be boiled in 

 water, and the decoction drank night and morning ; 

 it dissolves tough phlegm, and helps asthmatic 

 people ; it also works by urine, and promotes the 

 menses, and is good in all obstructions. 



Fenugreek Fcenum Grcecum. 



" A plant of the trefoil kind, but singular in its 

 manner of growth, cultivated in fields in many 

 places for the sake of the seed. It is emollient. It 

 grows a foot and a half high ; the stalks are round, 

 striated, and branched. The leaves are short and 

 broad : they stand three upon every stalk as in 

 the common trefoils : and are indented about the 

 edges. The flowers are white and small, and they 

 resemble a pea-blossom ; the pods are flat, and in 

 them is contained a quantity of yellow seeds, of an 

 irregular figure, and disagreeable smell 



