150 ctjlpepeb's complete herbal. 



Government and Virtues. — The juice of this herb taken 

 in ale, is accounted by some a gentle vomit, and of use 

 to help pains in the stomach, and evacuate choler, and to 

 help the jaundice ; it likewise destroys wormai Out- 

 wardly applied it is useful in scrofulous tumors and in- 

 flammations of the breast, and helps scald-heads. It is 

 under Venus. The juice provokes urine, and expels gra- 

 vel in the reins or kidneys, a dram thereof being given in 

 oxymel, after walking or stirring of the body. It helps 

 also the sciatica, griping of the belly, the colic, defects of 

 the liver, and provokes women's courses. The fresh herb 

 boiled, and made into a poultice, applied to the breasts of 

 women that are swollen with pain and heat, as also the 

 privy parts of man or woman, the seat or fundament, or 

 the arteries, joints, and sinews, when they are inflamed 

 and swollen, does much ease them ; and used with some 

 salt, helps to dissolve knots or kernels in any part of the 

 body. The leaves and flowers, with some fine frankin- 

 cense in powder, used in wounds of the body, nerves or 

 sinews, oo singularly help to heal them. The distilled 

 water oi iLe herb performs well all the aforesaid cures, 

 but especially for inflammations or watering of the eyes, 

 by reason of the defluxions of rheum into them. 



FLEABANE (MOUNTAIN.)— (^^cTwcio Jacohcea.) 



Called also Mountain Rag-wort, or Brag-weed. 



Descrip. — This is a weed of our high pasture ground, 

 but not common ; its height never exceeds a foot ; it is 

 found to grow upright, and has no branches. The leaves 

 are pale, thick, and downy, and the flowers are of a light 

 yellow : they grow in a cluster at the top of the stalk, and 

 have a circle of narrow leaves under them. 



Time. — They bloom in June and July ; and the seed is 

 ripe in August. 



Government and Virtues. — This is also under Venus. 

 Taken inwardly it is an acrid and dangerous purge, but 

 its juice applied outwardly, is of good ettect It is inju- 

 rious to sheep, as their wool grows loose on eating it 



FLEABANE (SMALL.)— (Pw/icaria DyserUerica,) 



Descrip, — This is another ill-looking annual weed, fre- 

 quent in our waste places. The rays of the flower are 

 very short and waved : it grows to eight inches high, 

 bat commonly lies in part upon the ground. The stalk 



