316 FAMILY HERBAL. 



The leaves of sneezewort, dried and powdered, 

 taken by way of snuff, are excellent against the 

 head-ach. The roots dried are almost as fiery 

 as pillitorv of Spain, and they cure the tooth-aeh 

 in the same manner. A piece held in the mouth, 

 fills it with rheum in a minute. 



Solomon's Seal. Polj/gonatum. 



A pretty plant, wild in some places, and 

 frequent in gardens. It grows a foot and half 

 high. Tiie stalk is round, striated, and of a pale 

 green ; naked half way up, and from thence to 

 the top ornamented with large oval leaves of a 

 pale green, blunt, smooth, ribbed, and not at all 

 indented at the edges. The flowers hang from 

 die under part of the stalk ; they are small and 

 white ; the fruit is a berry as big as a pea, and 

 black when ripe. The root, is white, oblong, 

 irregular, and creeps under tiie surface of the 

 ground. 



The root is the part used ; it is commended 

 extremely for an outward application against 

 bruises. The root dried and powdered is good 

 e.:;;iii>! purgings with bloody stools ; and the fresh 

 root beat up into a conserve with sugar, again.- 1 

 the w lutes. 



Sopewort. Saponaria. 



A wild plant, bat not very common. It is 

 two feet high. The stalk is round, thick, jointed, 

 and of a pale green ; the knots are large Th'- 

 leaves stand two at each joint ; they are o( <,-. 

 oval fiii'im . and dark green colour, smooth, not 

 dentated a! tin- edges, and full of large ribs The 

 flowers ;. . j in a kind of clusters at the tops; 



