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TitnA, — It blooms iu August 



Oovemment and Virtuf-n.—Thh plant is very useful to 

 the ladies, aud ought to he found upou their toilets. Its 

 decoction will take away freckles which are brought on by 

 the heat of the sun. It is so innocent, that no harm need 

 be feared from its application. 



GOAT-HERB, GOUTWEED, or GOUTWORT.— 

 (^gopodium Podagraria), 



Callkd also Ground- Ash, Herb Guard, and Ash weed. 



Descrip. — It is a low herb, seldom rising half a yard, 

 having sundry leaves standing on brownish green stalks 

 by threes, snipped about, and of a strong: unpleasant bsx- 

 ▼our : the umbels of the flowers are white, and the seed 

 blackish, the root runs broadly in the ground. 



Place.— li grows by hedge and wall-sides, and often in 

 the borders and corners of fields, and in gardens also. 



Time. — It flowers and seeds about the end of July. 



Oovemment and Virtttes. — Saturn rules it. Neither is 

 ft to be supposed that Goutwort has its name for nothing, 

 but upon experiment it heals the gout and sciatica ; as 

 also joint-aches, and other cold pains. 



GREEN (WJKIER.}—(Trie7Uali8 Europcea.) 



Descrip, — The stalk is round, thick, upright, and ten 

 inches high. The leaves somewhat resemole those of the 

 pear-tree, but scarcely so large ; they all grow from the 

 root, for the stalk is naked. The flowers are small^ and of 

 a very bright white ; they stand in a kind of loose spike 

 on the tops of the stalk, and are composed of five leaves, 

 which are succeeded by cornered seed-vessels, full of very 

 ■mall seed. The root is small, slender aud fibrous. 



Place. — It grows wild in some parts of England, but is 

 no where common. 



Time. — It flowers in July. 



Oovemment and Virtites.—W iuier-Qreen is under the 

 dominion of Saturn, and isamngular good wound-herb, 

 and an esf^ecial remedy to heal ^een wounds speedily, the 

 green leaves being bruised ana applied, or tne juice of 

 them. A salve made of the green herb stamped- or the 

 juice boiled with hog's- lard, and tury^entine added to it, ia 

 a sovereign salve. The herb boiled in wine and water, 

 and given to them that have any inward ulcers in their 

 kidreyu, or neck of the bladder, does wonderfully help 



