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the maall blackish grey seed, are carried away with the 

 wind. The root is made of many fibres, whereby it ia 

 firmly fastened into the ground, and abides many years. 



Place.— They grow wild in pastures, and untillea 

 grounds. 



Time. — They flower in June and July, and the seed is 

 ripe in August. 



OovemmerU and Virtue*. — Fleabane or Ragweed ia under 

 the command of Dame Venus ; and cleanses, digests, and 

 discusses. The decoction of the herb is good to wash the 

 mouth or throat that has ulcers or sores therein ; and for 

 iwellinga, hardness, or imposthumations, for it thorough- 

 ly cleanses and heals them ; as also the (^uinsey, and the 

 king's-eviL It helps to stay catarrhs, thm rheums, and 

 defiuxions from the head into the eyes, nose, or luuga 

 The juice is found by experience to be singularly food to 

 heal green wounds, and to cleanse and heal all old filthy 

 ulcers in the privities, and in other parts of the body, as 

 also inward wounds and ulcers ; stays the malignity of 

 fretting and running cankers, and hollow fistulas, not 

 Butfering them to spread farther. It is also much commend- 

 ed to help aches and pains either in the fleshy part, or in 

 the nerves and sinews ; as also the sciatica, or pain of the 

 hipe or huckle-bone, to bathe the places with the decoc- 

 tion of the herb, or to anoint them with an ointment made 

 of the herb, bruised and boiled in hog's-suet, with some 

 mastic and oLibanum in powder added to it after it is 

 strained forth. 



FLEABANE {MABSO.,)-^ Engeron viscoeum.) 



Called also Bird's Tongue. 



Descrit). — This is the Pulicaria of Lobel, and so called, 

 because by its smell it drives away and destroys fleas and 

 gnats, has a small strini^y root full of fibres, from which 

 spring round, succulent, striated stalks, which are shorter 

 or taller, according to the soil it grows in, and frequently 

 of a reddish colour, the lower leaves are about two inches 

 long, and half an inch broad ; the flowers grow on the 

 tops of the branches, without any petals or border, con- 

 sisting only of fistular yellow flowers, growing in a green 

 striated calyx, which afterwards turns into down. 



i"a^«.— It grows in moist places, and where water La# 

 •iohI all wint^ff. 



Time, — It flowers in August and 2>4'pUuub«r, 



