162 culpspeb'b completb hebbaj* 



Time. — They flower in August. 



Oavemment and Virtues. — Thej are under the domin- 

 ion of Mars, and one of the principal herbs he is ruler 

 of. These resist putrefactions and poison ; a more sure 

 remedy cannot be found to prevent the pestilence than it 

 is ; it strengthens the stomach exceedingly, helps diges- 

 tion, comforts the heart, and preserves it against faintings 

 and swoonings : the powder of the dry root helps the bit- 

 ing of mad dogs and venomous beasts ; opens obstructions 

 of the liver, and restores the appetite. The herb steeped 

 in wine, takes away weariness and cold lodging in the 

 joints, if drank ; it helps stitches and griping pains in the 

 sides ; it is an excellent remedy for such as are bruised by 

 falls. It provokes urine and the terms exceedingly, there- 

 fore let it not be given to women with child : the same is 

 very profitable for such as are troubled with cramps and 

 convulsions, to drink the decoction : alsr* they say it breaks 

 the stone, and help ruptures most ceitainly. It is excel- 

 lent in all cold diseases, and such as are troubled with 

 tough phlegm, scabs, itch, or the fretting sores and ulcers ; 

 it is ail admirable remedy to kill the worms, by taking 

 half a dram of the powder in a morning in any convenient 

 liquor ; the same is exceedingly good to be taken inward- 

 ly for king's-evil. It helps agues of all sorts, and the yel- 

 low-jaundice : as also the bots in cattle : when kine are 

 bitten on the udder by any venomous beast, stroke the 

 place with the decoction of any of these, and it will in- 

 stantly heal it. 



GERMANDER.— (^rcMortwrn Marum.) 



Descrip. — Germander has a spreading creeping root, 

 which sends forth several square nairy branches, scarce a 

 foot high, having two small leaves at every joint, on short 

 foot-staiks, about an inch long, and half an inch broad, cut 

 in with several sections, something resembling in shape the 

 leaves of on oak, somewhat hard and crumpled, green 

 above, and hoary white underneath. The flowers grow to- 

 wards the tops of the branches among the leaves, whorle- 

 fashion, of a purplish red colour ; they are labiated, the lip 

 turned upward ; but they want the galea, having in its 

 place several stamina standing erect. The seeds grow four 

 together in the hairy five- pointed calyces. 



Flcui€, — It grows with us only in gardens. 



TifM. — It lowers in Jmoe and JiUy. The leu ve.s and 

 to{*y are use*^^ 



