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Flace.^Xt jrrows In corn-fields almost every where, rm 

 well as in gardens. 



TitM.^ It flowers in May, for the most part ; and the 

 seed ripens shortly after. 



Oovernment and Virtues. — Saturn owns the herb, and 

 presents it to the world as a cure for his own disease, and 

 strengthener of the parts of the body he rules. The juice 

 or syrup made thereof, or the decoction made in whey by 

 itself, with some other purging or opening herbs and roots 

 to cause it to work the better (itself being but weak) is 

 very effectual for the liver and spleen, opening the ob- 

 structions thereof, and clarifying the blood from saltish, 

 choleric, and adust humours, which cause leprosy, scabs, 

 tetters, and itches, and such like breakings out of the skin ; 

 and, after the pnrgings, strengthens all the inward parts. 

 It is also good against the yellow jaundice, eradicatmg it 

 by urine, which it procures in abundance. The powder 

 of the dried herb, given for some time together, cures me- 

 lancholy, but the seed is strongest in operation for all the 

 former diseases. The distilled water of the herb is also 

 of good effect in the former diseases, and conduces much 

 against the plague and pestilence, being taken with good 

 treacle. The distilled water also, with a little water and 

 honey of roses, helps all the sores of the mouth or throat, 

 being gargled often therewith. The juice dropped into 

 the eyes, clears the sight, and takes away reauess and 

 other defects in them, although it procures some pain for 

 the present, and causes tears. Dioscorides says, it hinders 

 any fresh springing of hairs on the eyelids (after they are 

 pulled away) if the eyelids be anointed with the juice 

 oereof with gum arable dissolved therein. The juice of 

 the Fumitory and docks mingled with vinegar, and the 

 places gentlv washed or wet therewith, cures ail sorts of 

 ■caba, pimples, blotches, wheals, and pushes which rise on 

 the face or hands, or any other parts of the body. 



FURZE-BUSH.-— ("C^** Europeua.) 



Called also Gorze and Whins. 



Ducrip. — A common shrub, four or five feet high, and 

 very spreading. The leaves are very small, oblong, of a 

 bluish green, and fall soon after their appearance in 

 spring. The branches are all the year clothed with innu- 

 merable green thorns, and the flowers are large and yellow. 

 The l«Mer and the Needle Furze are two otner fipecies o/ 

 the same genus- 



