148 CULPEPPER'S COMPLETE HERB1.I1 



for the dropsy. The juice of the herb, or the distilled 

 water, dropped into the eyes, is a certain remedy for all 

 beat, inflammation, and redness in them. The juice or 

 water put into foul ulcers, whether they be cancerous or 

 fistulous, with tents rolled therein, or the parts washed 

 and injected therewith, cleanses them thoroughly from 

 the bottom, and heals them up safely. The same juice or 

 water also cleanses the skin wonderfully of all sorts of 

 deformity, as leprosy, morphew, scurf, wheals, pimples, 

 or spots, applied of itself, or used with some powder of 

 lupiii«3. 



(FLEABANE (CAN ADA,)— Erigeron Canaderue,) 



Called also Simson. 



Detcrip. — The stalk is of a dusky green, tinged with 

 brown, and the lower leaves are broad, and rudely dent- 

 ed ; the upper narrow and undivided, and all of a dead 

 green. Tne flowers are white, but of no beauty. 



Place, — This is an annual, that grows on our dry banks, 

 and among rubbish : sometimes it is found not six inches 

 high, sometimes two feet or more. 



Time. — They bloom in August and September. 



Oavemment and Virtttes. — It is under Venus. The 

 juice of this, as well as the sweet Fleabane, or Eri^eron 

 Acre, is an excellent pectoral ; but being unpleasant is not 

 often used ; however, if the decoction or infusion be 

 sweetened with capilary or syrup of Maidenhair, it may 

 be used with success in consumptive cases. 



FLEABANE (MAKSH.)— ^^c/wjcu) wdgarit.) 



Called also Common Rag- wort or Rag- weed, Groundsel, 

 St. James's-wort, Stagger- wort, Hammer-wort, and by 

 some confounded with Segruiu. 



Descrip. — This has many large and long leaves, of a 

 fresh ^een, very smooth and delicate, lying on thf 

 ground; the leaves are deeply cut at the edges, fron. 

 which rise up sometimes but one, and sometimes two or 

 three square or crested blackish or brownish stalks, three 

 or four feet high, sometimes branched, bearing divers such- 

 like leaves upon them, at several distances unto the top, 

 where it branches forth into many stalks bearing yellow 

 flowers, consisting oi divers leaves, set as a pale or border, 

 with a dark yellow thrum in the middle, which abides a 

 great while, but wX last are turned into down, and, with 



