122 0ULPEP£K'8 complsts ukbbal. 



and stajeth l&xes and vomitinff. The distilled water 

 alone, or with a little w orm-seed, killeth the worms in 

 children. 



The way of ose is to bruise the roots, and having well 

 boiled them In white wine, drink the decoction ; it is 

 opening, but not purging, very safe ; 'tis a remedy against 

 all diseases coming of stopping, and such are half those 

 that are incident to the body of man ; and although a 

 gardener be of another opinion, yet a physician holds 

 an acre of them to be worth five acres of carrots twice told 

 over. 



DOG'S MERCURY.— (^J/ercurioZw PerennisJ 



Deacrip, — This is a rank poisonous plant, that grows 

 about a foot high, and has but few leaves, but they are 

 lar^e ; the stalk is round, thick, whitish, pointed, and a 

 little hairy : the leaves stand principally towards the top, 

 four, five, or six, seldom more ; they are long, and con- 

 Biderably broad, sharp-pointed, notched about the edges, 

 and a little hairy. 



Place. — It is most commonly found under hedges. 



Oovemment and Danger, — This species of Mercury has 

 been confounded with others of the same name, with 

 which it has been thought to agree in nature. But there 

 Sb not a more fatal plant, native of our countrv, than this. 

 The common herbals, as Gerard's and Parkinson's, in- 

 stead of cautioning their readers against the use of this 

 plant, after some trifling, idle observations, upon the 

 qualities of Mercurys in geueral, dismiss the article with- 

 out noticing its baneful effects. Other writers, more ac- 

 curate, have done this ; but they have written in Latin, 

 a language not very likely to inform those who stand 

 most in need of this caution. This is one of the reasons 

 for the compiling of this work ; and, among many others, 

 evinces the necessity of placing the Latin name opposite 

 to the English one, to prevent that confusion whicn simi- 

 larity of English might unfortunately create. 



DOG ROSE.— fiZotfa Canina,) 



Called also Wild Rose. 



Descrip. — The Dog Rose has winged leaves like garden 

 roses, but smoother and greener ; the flowers are single, 

 of five white, and sometimes pale red leaves, and when 

 "^hey are fallen, there succeed roundish red seed-vessels, 



