110 cxtlpepbb's complxtb herbal. 



86 J : and farther saith, that whosoever shall so take it, 

 •hall never be troubled with that disease again. 



CURRANT-TREE.-<i2i6« Vulgaris^ 



Descrip. — The Currant-tree is well known to be a some- 

 what taller tree than the goose-berry, with larger leaves, 

 without thorns. The fruit grows in small bunches, of a 

 red colour, and of a sharp sweetish taste. 



Place. — It is usually planted in gardens, but is said to 

 grow wild in the north of England. 



Time. — It flowers in April, and the fruit is ripe in 

 June. 



Government and Virtttee. — They are under 'Jupiter 

 They are cooling to the stomach, quench thirst, and are 

 somewhat restringent ; a jelly made with the juice and 

 sugar, is cooling and grateful in fevers. 



C YPKESS-TREE. ^Cupreseue.) 



Desorip, — ^This grows to be a large, tall, high tree, co- 

 vered aU over, almost from the ground, with slender 

 branches growing close together, making the tree have a 

 pyramidal shape, with small, short, sharp, and as it were 

 scaly leaves, which cover over all the young twigs. Tbo 

 flowers are small and staminous, succeeded by cones or 

 nuts, as they are called, which are round, near as big as 

 a wallnut, when ripe opening with several clefts, in which 

 lie brown flattish cornered seeds. 



PUice. — It is planted in gardens for its pleasant ver- 

 dure, being a perennial or evergreen, holding its leaves 

 all winter, and shooting out fresh in the spring. We 

 have two species growing in our gardens, whereof the f as- 

 mina, or that whose branches grow closer together, is the 

 most common, having somewhat longer nuts than the 

 otherj whose branches are more expanded, and cones or 

 nuts rounder. 



TVmtf.— The fruit is ripe about the beginning of 

 winter. 



Oovemm/erU and Virtues. — This tree is under the go- 

 vernment of Saturn. The cones or nuts are mostly used, 

 the leaves but seldom ; thev are accounted very drying 

 and binding, good to stop nuxes of all kinds, as spitting 

 of blood, diarrhoea, dysentery, the immoderate nux ol 

 the menses, involuntary miction ; they prevent the bleed- 

 ing of the gums, and fasten loose teeth : outwardly, thef 



