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Plae€. — This ii a sea-side pereuaiiil plant, fretjueutlj 

 foand in Cornwall. 



Time, — Tbey bloom in August 



Government and rir^M^.— This is a weed of our waste 

 marshes, where it grows in its greatest perfection. Some 

 curious physic gardeners have produced it, but it is not 

 then so full of virtue as when found wild. The virtues of 

 Feverfew are very great It is an excellent deobstruent. 

 It is, as observed before, a great promoter of the menses, 

 and cures those hysteric complaints which rise from their 

 obstruction. It also destroys worms. In short, the 

 virtues of any sorts of Feverfew are beyond all praise, 

 and above all valae. 



FEVERFEW (SWEET.)— (Pyrtf^Arttm, or Matricaria 

 Siiaveolens.) 



Detcrip. — The leaves of these Feverfews are stringy 

 and very narrow, but the flower indicates the species. 

 The stalks ai*e stiff, round, or striated, two feet high or 

 more, clothed with smaller leaves, and pretty much 

 branched towards the top, on which grow large flat um- 

 bels of flowers, made of several white petals, broader and 

 shorter than those of camomile, set about a yellow thrum. 

 The root is thick at the head, having manv flbres under 

 it ; the whole plant has a very strong, and, to most, an 

 ODpleaaant smell 



Place. — They grow in hedges and lanes. 



Time,— They flower in June and July. The leaves and 

 flowers are used. 



Govemnieni and Virtues. — The virtues of Feverfew are 

 very great ; it is an herb particularly appropriated to the 

 female sex, being of great service in all cola flatulent dis- 

 orders of the womb, and hysteric affections ; procuring 

 the catamenia, and expelling the birth and secundines. 

 The joioe to the quantity of two ounces, given an hour 

 before the fit, is good for all kinds of agues. It likewise 

 destroys worms, provokes urine, and is ^>od for the dropsy 

 and jaundice. 



FlQ.TREE.—(Ficu8 Carica.) 



Detcrip. — The Fig-tree seldom grows to be a tree of any 



§reat bigness in our parts, being clothed with large leaves 

 igger than vine-leaves, full of nigh veins, and divided for 

 ine most part into five blunt-pointed segments, yielding a 

 thin milky juice when broken. It bears no viable flowera. 



