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and pestilential fevers ; as also to help the redness of the 

 eyes and swellings of the testicles, and of the breasts be- 

 fore they be grown too much. The fresh herb applied 

 to the forehead, easeth the pains of the head-ache coming 

 of heat. 



EGLANTINE.— C/?OM Rubiginota,) 



Called also Sweet Bnar, Wild Briar, and Pimpernel 

 Boee. 



Place. — It is cultivated in most gardens and pleasure- 

 grounds, and likewise grows wild in the borders of fielda^ 

 and in woods. 



Time— It begins to shoot forth its buds early in the 

 ■pring, and flowers during the time of other roses. 



OovemmerU and Firm^*.— This is under the dominion 

 of Jupiter. The spongy apples or balls which are found 

 upon the Eglantine, if pounded to a paste, and mixed with 

 honey and wood-ashes, are excellent for the alopecia or 

 falling of the hair, and being dried and powdered, and 

 taken in white wine, remove the strangury, and strength- 

 en the kidneys. The same boiled in a strong decoction of 

 the roots, is good for venomous bites. The red berries 

 which succeed the flowers, called hips, if made into a 

 conserve, and eaten occasionally, gently bind the belly, 

 stop defluxions of the head and stomach, he}p digestion, 

 sharpen the appetite, and dry up the moisture of cola 

 rheum and phlegm upon the stomach. The powder of 

 the dried pulp is gooa for the whites, and if mixed, with 

 the powder of the balls, and given in small quantities, it 

 also good for the colic, and to destroy worms, 



ELDER— {"iSam^Mctw Nigra,) 



JkBcrip. — The Elder-Tree is a common hedge-tree, 

 who«e spreading branches have a snongr pith in the mid- 

 dle ; the outside bark is of an aBn-colour, under which 

 is another that is green. The leaves are pinnated, of two 

 or three pair of pinnse, with an odd one at the end, which 

 is larger than the rest ; they are oval, sharp-pointed, and 

 ■erra^ about the edges. The flowers grow in large flat 

 umbels ; they are small, of one leaf, cut into five sections, 

 with as many small stamina ; and are succeeded by small 

 round deep purple berries, full of a purple juice. 



Flace.~The Elder-tree grows frequently in h«dgf«, 

 •iptridlj in moist pUoen 



