10 THt ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



films growing over llic sicht ; it hclpcth beasts as well as 

 men. The juice ilrojiped into the ear, doth wonderrully 

 help the noise and singinir of them, and helpelh the hear- 

 ini; which is decayed. It is good to tun np with new 

 drink, lor it will clarify it in a night, that it will be the 

 filter to be drank the next morning; or if any drink be 

 thick with removing or any other accident, it will do the 

 like in a few hours. 



Alexander. 1/. (h. d. 3.) 



It is also called Alisander, Tlorse-parcley, and Wild- 

 parsley, and the Black Pot-herb ; the seed of it is that 

 which is usually sold in apothecaries shops for Macedo- 

 nian Parsley. seed. 



Desc."] It is a biennial long and very thick root. It 

 has a strong smell and a sharp acrid taste ; the leaves are 

 doubly compound ; they pra'ceed immediately from the 

 root and are very numerous ; the main leaf stalk is 

 divided into three principal parts, and each of these is 

 subdivided into three others, which support a number of 

 short oval segments with saw-like edges. Its stem is firm, 

 upright and scored on the surface, and is six or seven feet 

 high, and is decorated with a few leaves of the same 

 general structure with those described above, but smaller. 

 The flowers terminate the stem in large naked rundles, 

 ■which are small and white. The seeds are shaped like a 

 crescent or New Aioon, and are a little convex on the on« 

 side and furrowed, but ilat on the other. 



Place.2 It grows wild among the clitTs of the rocks on 

 the sea coast, and is usually cultivated in gardens. 



Time.'] It flowereth in June and July, and the seed is 

 ripe in August. 



Government and Viitues.'] It is an herb of Jupiter, and 

 therefore friendly to nature, for it warraeth a cold sto- 

 mach, and openeth a stoppage to the liver and spleen; it 

 is good to move wo:ncn's courses, to expel the after-birth, 

 to break wind, to provoke urine, and helpeth the stran- 

 guary ; and these things the seeds will do likewise. If 

 either of them be boiled in wine, or bruised and taken in 

 wine, is aho eflettual against the biting ol serpents. 

 And you know what Alexander pottage is good for, that 



