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full of pulp, inclosing white cornered seed, covered with 

 short stiff hairs. On the stalks of this plant grow a green 

 spongy excrescence, made by small flies. 



P^ace. — It grows commonly in the hedges about Cam- 

 bridge. 



Time,— It flowers in May and June, and the seed \% 

 ripe at the beginning of September. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is under the dominion of 

 the Moon. The flowers of the Wild Briar are accounted 

 rather more restringent than the Garden Roses, and by 

 some are reckoned as a specific for the excess of the cata- 

 menia. The pulp of the hips has a pleasant grateful 

 acidity, strengtnens the stomach, cools the heat of fevers, 

 i« pectoral, good for coughs and spitting of blood, and the 

 •curvy. The seed has been known to do great things 

 against the stone and gravel ; and the same virtues are 

 attributed to the spongy excrescence which grows upon 

 the stalk. The best way of preserving its virtues is, by 

 keeping it conserved. 



DOG'S TOOTH YlOLEiT.^( Erythroniwm dera CanU,) 



Deecrip. — A very pretty plant, small, with two broad 

 leaves, and a large drooping flower : it grows five or six 

 inches high. The stalk is round, slender, weak, and 

 greenish towards the top, and often white at the bottom. 

 The leaves stand a little height above ground : they are 

 oblong, somewhat broad, of a beautiful green, not at all 

 dented at the edges, and blunt at the end. They inclose 

 the stalk at the base. The flower is large and white, but 

 with a tinge of reddish : it hangs down, is long, hollow, 

 and very elegant. The root is roundish, and has some 

 fibres growing from its bottom ; it is full of a slimy pulp. 

 Place. — It grows frequently in gardens, but must not 

 be sought for wild. 



Time.— Jt flowers in June, and is in perfection till the 

 fall of the leaf. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — This useful plant is covem- 

 ed by the Moon. The fresh gathered roots are tne best 

 to be used, for they dry very ill, and generally lose their 

 rirtaei entirely. They are good against worms in chil- 

 dren, and speedily ease the pains of the belly which are 

 produced thereby. The best way of giving them is, in the 

 expressed iuice ; or if children will not take that, they 

 ■uj be boued in milk, to which they give very little taste. 



